With version 7.3.0, Board requires Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0, it is therefore a prerequisite to install it. Remember to always use the setup.exe program to launch any installation (do not double lick on the msi package files), by doing so the installation program will automatically verify all prerequisites and if required will automatically prompt to install the correct version of the Microsoft Framework.
Board Client version 7.3.0 can connect to a server running Board Server 7.3.0 only, it is therefore to update all Board Client and Office Add-in installations.
Capsules and databases created or modified with version 7.3.0 cannot be re-opened with version 7.2.1 (or prior).
Refer to the following pages for the list of new features and changes of version 7.3.0.
Print as a single object : on the panel container object, a new option named "Print as a single object" allows to print the objects contained on the panel exactly as positioned on screen, instead of printing each object to a new page.
Data-entry Lock & Spread : several enhancements have been introduced in support of data entry. On data entry reports, it is now possible to lock some cells, including locking column or row totals and use the Split&Splat automatically on the other cells. This facilitates the reconciliation of town-down and bottom-up budgeting and forecasting processes, or to adopt a goal-seeking approach to budgeting and forecasting. Also, an advanced data-entry window provides the user helpful features for data entry such as entering data simultaneously on a range of cells (add a constant value), or modify a range of selected cells by changing its total, average, by multiplying for a given factor etc. Go to the Lock & Spread page for details.
Board Excel Add-In : the Board Add-in for Excel has been largely renewed, it now supports defining more than one Layout on a worksheet and allows to set the position of the Layout on the worksheet. Other options and changes have been introduced to manage formatting and drill-down behavior; go to the Excel Add-in page of the manual for details.
CSV Data Reader : The ASCII text file Datareader now supports reading files in CSV format (Character Separated Value).
Some new option for the following Procedures Action have been introduced
Select : a new option allows to selectively reset the Select for a single chosen entity or for an entire Tree.
Drill-down and Master function on a Layout with 3 or more entities by row: an error was occurring when drilling the 2nd grouping level or when clicking the master object on the 2nd grouping level.
A new option in the Dataview Layout allows to enable text wrap on first column.
Format : the symbols before or after set in the format options, now appear in the cell only if the cell is not blank.
Master-Layout : an error occurring on a screen with a master Dataview causing DataEntry to fail on the lowest level has been fixed.
Data-entry with reverse algorithm could provoke #Div0! in case of a null string.
Dataview Thumbnail chart : the Y Axis labels of now considers decimals in case of small values.
Dataview Thumbnail chart : now supported on vertically aligned Layouts.
Various fixes on column algorithm occurring when updating formulas while moving blocks in the Layout.
Data-entry on text cubes: the text editor window on text cubes now goes to new line correctly, previously was writing on single line only with a scroll-bar.
Dataview including images of BLOB cubes where sometimes not shown when scrolling the Dataview down then up.
Export to Excel of vertical layout: when attempting to export to Excel a Layout with vertical alignment a warning message is displayed and the alignment is switched to horizontal in the exported file (the Board Add-in for Excel doesn't support vertically aligned Layouts).
Unwanted changes in appearance of the Dataview between version 7.2.0 and 7.2.1 have been restored.
The option Hide block was ignored when using align vertical in the Layout of a Dataview.
Expanding collapsed groupings has been optimized and is now faster.
An error occurring on Layouts with data-entry on an Entity&Relationship block has been fixed.
An error in the Entity Format, affecting the left border of the first column has been fixed.
By Row entity was disabling the Tooltip on the marker.
Marker values on charts now appear by default with the thousand separator.
Chart legend was sometimes duplicated when the chart was on a tab container on the 2nd or subsequent tab.
Dataview headers and labels in WebClient were not wrapping long text.
Dataview transparent borders were not supported in WebClient.
Master Dataview: clicking on a row in the master Dataview was sometimes causing a crash.
Selector: in case of use of the option Show Inactive Members the web client was not displaying inactive items. A limitation applies: the green checks are not shown.
The data-entry save/undo mode is now supported in the WebClient.
The chart object in the web now supports the color themes and definitions as defined in the Capsule environment. It is now possible to change the colors or the data series of a chart and view it the WebClient.
In a report in Excel it was erroneously possible to drill-down on headers and grouping headers.
When deleting a Layout the background format was not cleared.
When exporting to Excel from a screen with a Master object, the exported data was ignoring the active element of the master object.
Export to Excel from a screen containing pager(s) was sometimes producing an incorrect select in the target file.
Conditional formattings options were lost after refresh of the layouts
Data Entry with flattening didn't work correctly.
The drill-down panel now supports the option Show Groups displaying entities grouped as defined in the data dictionary.
Introduced an option in the printing settings to enable/disable printing of the cover page (in most cases was an empty page.
ATO pagers: an error caused by overlapping scroll-bars of ATO pagers has been fixed.
Selector object on entities not in cache (exceeding the entity cut-off threshold) was not correctly handing the Show Inactive Members option
Database manager transactions Entities, Relationships, Cubes etc, now all have the zoom function.
Various cases of error when launching a triggered procedure have been fixed.
DataReader SQL : now schema names are into brackets, in order to read schema names with special characters.
An error on the Next/Continue buttons of the Procedure Debugger has been fixed.
DataReader window didn't ask confirmation on closing using the "x" icon after making changes, now a message box asks the user to save or discard changes.
The GoTo screen with "Apply Data Selection" didn't keep the "No all" option on some pagers in the target screen (those which were not present on the parent screen). To fix this error it can be necessary to delete and re-create the pagers in the destination screen.
A status bar has been added to the drill-down window
Board Client now fully supports "right-to-left" languages.
A performance improvement has been implemented regarding entities with high number of members in cache.
DataReader ASCII: the default length of time entities has been changed.
DataReader ASCII: an error when using drag&drop has been fixed.
An optimization of network traffic required to manage procedures with a high number of actions (over 100) has been implemented, resulting in improved execution performance.
Screen Copy&paste of objects: the paste action failed if in the destination capsule a screen with the same name was present.
In case of data-entry in a drill-down window, some higher level drill-down windows weren't refreshed automatically.
Button object: the message and password options of the button were not correctly working in case a text message was set without requiring a password.
DataReader SQL: it is now possible to use the Manual panel to invoke a stored procedure, starting the command with "exec".