Economic Indicators in Board Signals

  • Updated on Oct 14, 2025
  • Published on Jul 16, 2025
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Overview

Starting in version 14.3, Board introduces the Board Signals add-on, enabling users to access curated Economic indicators. These indicators can be added to Screen Objects as Cubes to:

  • Enhance forecast accuracy

  • Identify emerging trends

  • Support data-driven decision-making

Setup Requirements: The Economic indicators add-on must be enabled during instance configuration or version upgrades. An API connection must be established in Foresight.

Step-by-Step: Adding Economic indicators to Cubes

Accessing the Data Model

Once enabled, a new Economic indicators data structure will be available in your Data Model.

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Viewing Industry Properties

Once you click on the Economic indicators data structure, a new screen will appear. This will be populated with the Signals industry activated in your instance, and includes the following properties:

  • Industry: The name of the Signals industry (e.g. Retail, Manufacturing).

  • Number of Economic Indicators: The total indicators available for that industry.

  • Description: The region associated with the industry (e.g. United States, European Union).

Viewing and Configuring Indicators

Clicking on an industry opens a modal listing the Economic indicators within that segment. Each indicator includes the following properties:

  • Name: A clean, user-friendly name.

  • Active: A bubble (blue when active); activating this will create a Cube, deactivating it will remove the Cube. See Indicator Activation Behavior.

  • Technical Name: The Foresight platform's internal name.

  • Description: A short explanation of the indicator.

Click on an indicator to access two tabs:

  • Configuration tab: Activate/deactivate the indicator and/or optionally rename the indicator.

  • Details tab: View additional details on the indicator, such as a time-series chart, frequency, data type, units, seasonality, provider ID, number of historical and forecast points, and indicator tags.

Indicator Activation Behavior

When an indicator is activated:

  • The Active status is visually confirmed (the row no longer appears greyed out).

  • A Cube is automatically created in the Data Model. The Cube is grouped under the corresponding Industry name.

  • You can now add the indicator directly to Screen Objects as a Cube using the Layout Editor.