Board 8 Release Notes
Introducing version 8
BOARD 8 is not just a new product version, but a tectonic shift in the
capability to search, consume and analyse information across the organization.
With the introduction of search based data discovery, personal mashboards,
data fast tracks, and a new drag and drop user interface, BOARD 8 makes
gaining access to the right information easier, faster and more effective
for everyone.
This powerful combination of new BOARD 8 features acts at all the different
levels within the solution: the new fast track function allows immediate
creation of data models; the integrated search empowers users to easily
explore data, metadata and applications and to use the results as navigation
drivers for further explorations. Finally, the new PinBOARD, enables users
to save their findings and to create their own personal analysis environments.
This virtuous cycle does not simply change what the users can do, but
drastically transforms and enhances how they can do it.
Furthermore, thanks to the native Business Intelligence and Performance
Management unification, this new capability extends to every type of analytic
application built with BOARD, closing the gap between the individual need
for self-service analysis, and the organizational necessity to have a
shared vision of the truth throughout the whole enterprise.
This cutting-edge capability to combine personal and organizational
productivity, injecting information intelligence into the decision making
processes, highlights once more the importance of BOARD’s unified approach
to Business Intelligence and Performance Management: no other Business
Intelligence or Performance Management vendor could offer the same.
What's new in Board 8
This list summarizes Board 8 new features
- New Dataview Object: The
new dataview object, other than improving rendering performances,
allows the usage of sparklines and a new type of alert more
- Sliding Panel: In
order to use Menu, Search, Cart, Pinboard and Drag and Drop
Layout functions you must activate the Sliding Menu. more
- Menu: A
menu incorporated into the sliding panel, it allows to navigate
through the various capsule screens more
- Search: Searching
objects into database and capsules made easy: the new Board
search engine more
- Cart & PinBoard: Add
your favorite reports to cart, taking them from the various
screens and create you own pinboard! more
- Drag and Drop Layout:
A faster
to create your layouts, drag and drop entities
and cubes directly into your reporting objects more
- Expressions: Save
your algorithm columns as cubes and use them whenever you
need more
- FastTrack: Feed
your Board database (entities, cubes, relationships, data...)
using thins new powerful feature to connect Board to external
tables more
- Dynamic Select: This
feature allows you to have dynamic screen select, based on
other cubes more
- Menu Object: A
new object that will make the navigation inside capsules way
easier more
Capsule Folder Security
Capsule folder security logic has changed, in previous Board versions,
in order to access a subfolder it was needed to have access to the parent
folder. It's now possible to give access only to subfolder without being
forced to give access to its parent.
Fixes and minor changes
- Block entry can be performed for each aggregated row entity
(must have at least two entities in row);
- Call procedure from web has been improved;
- Printing from drill-down window will also print the entity
on which we drilled;
- Improved dataview ergonomy;
- Web Client fully supports Master layouts;
- Thousand separator is shown also before saving data in
dataentry;
- Web clients allows reverse algorithms on hidden blocks;
- Select on web client;
- Fixed screen selection in excel add-in for workbook containing
multiple sheets
- Max item number alerts in case of negative numbers.
- Sorting data cubes is now possible
- The formatting of blocks with "Aligned Vertically"
option has been improved, now supports "Before and After"
symbols and decimal settings.
Known Limitations
- Sort on flattened dataviews is not supported;
- Setup does not automatically install frameworks on Windows
8 and Windows Server 2012, you must install frameworks manually;
- Local Engine does not work on Windows 8 and Windows Server
2012;
- Lock cells and dataentry is not supported for excel add-in,
window drill must be used.
Important things to know
- Windows Service has been renamed for Board Server from
"Board 7 Engine" to "Board Engine", this
will impact your batches;
- Windows Service has been renamed for Board Web Server from
"Board 7 Web Engine" to "BoardWebEngine",
this will impact your batches;
- Windows Program Group where Board is installed is now "Board
8"
Fixes in Board 8 release update
Board 8.0.0.60415 contains Japanese and Spanish dictionaries, other
than the following minor fixes:
- Hidden block information will be shown in the information
block tooltip inside layout editor
- Block header formatting enabled also in new dataview object
- Problems when deleting a master layout have been resolved
- Insert row malfunction on empty dataviews has been resolved
- Queries in dataereaders containing "WHERE" clauses
sometimes were not working properly, issue has been fixed
- Selection are now applied also into drill trough queries
inside drill downs
- Dynamic select Current Date was losing selections when
closing the client, issue fixed
- Excel add-in sheet selections were showing incorrect selects
on sheets created in previous versions, issue fixed
- When adding to cart a miniscreen Board web was always setting
the same name as default proposal, now it will propose names
with an incremental identifier