📊 Understanding the Discrepancy Report in Same Item Multiple Boards

The Discrepancy Report is a powerful feature in SIMA designed to help you maintain consistency across shared items on multiple boards. This guide will walk you through what discrepancies are, how to identify and resolve them, and why they matter.

🔍 1. What is the Board View?

The latest SIMB update introduces the Board View, a visual way to detect discrepancies across boards.
With Board View, you can now easily spot mismatched data between items synced across boards.

⚠️ 2. What is a Discrepancy?

A discrepancy occurs when the same item shows different values across multiple boards. For example:

A task marked as "Done" in one board but "Stuck" in another. The sync didn't occur because the columns didn't have the same name. Then, the columns are renamed to keep them in sync.

🎬 3. Real Example: Task Status Mismatch

Imagine you change a task's status from "Status One" → "Done" → "Back to Status One"… One board might update properly, but the other might display "Stuck" due to a sync issue.

🛠️ 4. Why Do Discrepancies Happen?

Most commonly due to:

Mismatched column names

Manual changes made directly in different boards

Technical or sync delays

Network issues

When column names don’t match, SIMB can’t sync correctly — triggering discrepancies.

📁 5. How to Access the Discrepancy Report

Open the SIMBA Board View and navigate to the Overview Section. A red number will highlight the number of discrepancies per item.

📚 6. View Full Task History

You can click on an item to expand its history and see what changes happened, when, and by whom.

🔄 7. How to Fix a Discrepancy

SIMA makes it easy: just click "Sync Latest" next to the discrepancy. Confirm the action, and it will apply the latest value across all boards.

💡 8. Top Reasons for Discrepancies

Manual edits in only one board

Users editing at the same time

Column structure not aligned across boards

Momentary network disconnects

✅ 9. Why the Discrepancy Report Matters

The Discrepancy Report ensures data integrity across all boards and helps teams stay on the same page. Use the filtering option to find and fix mismatches quickly.

📽️ Watch the Full Tutorial (2:45 min):
https://www.loom.com/share/2b29c3c78b54450989fddb836bdc8a4a

Let us know if you have any questions — we're here to help!

Updated on: 11/06/2025