List of changes in version 24.1
Overview
This article provides a list of the issues fixed and new functionality added in version 24.1 of Dundas BI, and for Managed Dashboards and Reports in Logi Symphony where applicable.
Version 24.1.0.1001
New functionality
| Ticket | Details |
|---|---|
| CMP-1403 | Console log entries now include the tenant and account IDs where applicable. |
| DUN-94929 | Current User is now available as a placeholder label in reports. |
Fixed issues
| Ticket | Details |
|---|---|
| DUN-94925 | Fixed an issue where unchecking the option to preserve parameter values in a notification can cause a table visualization's totals to be displayed at the top instead of the bottom in the exported content. |
| DUN-94929 | Label components in reports now support the use of multiple placeholders in a single label. |
| DUN-94930 | Fixed the Percentage option for Range Number filters and made improvements for this option on Single Number filters. |
| DUN-94944 | Fixed an issue that could prevent a manual select transform querying a PostgreSQL database from updating as intended when choosing its Refresh option after the structure returned by the query has changed. |
| DUN-94949 | Addressed an issue causing keys from a localization code library to be displayed without being localized in filters or the sort & filter popup when viewing a dashboard, report, or other view. |
| CMP-1342 | When deploying Dundas BI on Windows, the Microsoft Access Database Engine used only for legacy Excel data source support is no longer listed as an optional prerequisite. Excel data source support does not require additional downloads. |
| CMP-1931 | Fixed an issue that could cause a data cube storage job for the wrong tenant to run when requested on deployments with a separate storage microservice container. |
Version 24.1.0.1000
Behavior changes
| Ticket | Details |
|---|---|
| DUN-93861 | Ubuntu 18 is no longer supported for running Dundas BI directly on Linux. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, please upgrade to 24.2 instead to enable support for Python transforms and the metric set Assistant, otherwise the Assistant can be disabled using the Machine Learning Provider configuration setting. Other Linux distributions or versions, Kubernetes, and Docker are alternative options. |
| CMP-670 | To update the default visualization saved in the underlying metric set based on the current one in a dashboard or other view, first click Visualization in the Data Analysis Panel and then click Update Metric Set. |
| CMP-1220 | When deploying on Kubernetes, the default value for dundas.bi.website.service.sessionAffinity has been changed from ClientIP to None if not set in your own YAML values. |
New functionality
| Ticket | Details |
|---|---|
| DUN-92272 | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now supported when deploying Dundas BI directly on Linux. |
| DUN-92333 | The Unknown Member Caption for a hierarchy in the Data Analysis Panel can now easily be customized to be blank/empty. |
| DUN-93237 | When you need to re-upload a file when creating or editing a data connector, you no longer need to first save or close and re-open it. |
| DUN-94321 DUN-94717 |
The Microsoft SQL Server data provider uses improved functions for the datetime2 data type and for time dimensions and date trimming if available in newer SQL Server/Azure SQL versions. |
| DUN-94489 | When exporting to a DBIE file in Administration, a search box has been added for more easily locating and selecting project files. |
| DUN-94482 | When scheduling a notification for a report, you can now export to the Image and PowerPoint formats. |
| DUN-94507 | The Check Warnings button when editing a ragged hierarchy now checks for an invalid level depth value. |
| DUN-94612 | When upgrading an instance running on Docker or Kubernetes with an evaluation license, the license is now updated automatically to be valid for the new version. |
| DUN-94759 | Users belonging to multiple tenants can see the currently selected tenant and switch between them more easily using the Profile menu. |
| DUN-94768 | UI improvements have been made for exporting a DBIE file to better support accounts belonging to multiple tenants. |
| DUN-94769 | When importing a DBIE file containing accounts that also belong to a tenant not included and not already present, references to that tenant are now removed automatically rather than requiring a health check to be run afterward. |
| CMP-579 | A new built-in Global Users group includes all accounts set as global rather than belonging to specific tenants on multi-tenant instances. |
| CMP-598 | The styling of the Properties window has been updated to better differentiate between headings and navigable list items on a wider variety of displays. |
| CMP-600 | Assign optional colors to your data cube transforms to help categorize and identify them. |
| CMP-650 | The included version of jQuery has been updated to 3.7.1. |
| CMP-670 | New report application privileges have been added that can be denied to certain users or groups to provide them with a simplified report design experience when not all functionality is required: Report Advanced Dockable Windows, Report Advanced Toolbar, Report Data Visualizations, and Report Styles and Themes. |
| CMP-733 | Administrators can now set tenant-specific custom attribute values on accounts that belong to multiple tenants. |
| CMP-741 | The search box in the Views, Data, and Business pages accessed from the main menu now provides results from all subfolders in the current project for the selected file type. Hover over a result's name to see its full location in a tooltip. |
| CMP-742 | Expand Recently Viewed at the bottom of the Home screen (All content in Logi Symphony) to quickly return to previous files you had open including dashboards, reports, metric sets, data cubes, and more. |
| CMP-743 | The message shown on Views, Data and Business pages when the selected folder on the left is empty has been improved. |
| CMP-744 | The description and validation for the Gateway Hub URL configuration setting have been improved. |
| CMP-768 | Tenant administrators can now manage custom attribute values for an account for the current tenant if the account also belongs to another tenant. |
| CMP-785 | Manual Select transforms have a new option Element Discovery Execution Behavior to more quickly discover the elements returned by more complicated queries or larger results. |
| CMP-1100 | Log entries for containers running separate Python, export, and/or other microservices now contain the date in their timestamps. |
Fixed issues
| Ticket | Details |
|---|---|
| DUN-94766 | Tenant administrators can now edit an account that belongs both to their tenant and another tenant. |
| DUN-94842 | Clicking or right-clicking a Data Cube transform and choosing Refresh will now update the element names based on the source data cube. |
| CMP-838 | Fixed an issue that could prevent a job failure email from being sent and log an invalid session exception when configured to send it to the application maintainer. |
| DUN-94872 | Fixed an issue where setting the isDownloadLink URI parameter to false in a REST request to /Export/Result/ was no longer responded to with the correct headers to open the file directly in the browser. |
| DUN-94886 | Fixed an issue preventing some date/time token values from working as expected in a filter transform when using greater/less than operators, allowing you to choose whether to apply the upper or lower boundary value of the calculated token. |
| DUN-94887 | Fixed an issue that could cause grand total text to be missing the color assigned based on state conditions when exported to Excel. |
| DUN-94893 | Addressed custom total text not being applied to the grand total column when exporting to Excel. |
| CMP-988 | Prevented unnecessary changes made automatically to table visualizations starting in version 23.4 when displaying indented row headers with totals disabled for hierarchies not being visualized, and addressed related issues such as no change when choosing indented row headers when using certain hierarchy totals settings. |
| DUN-94898 | Fixed an issue that caused formulas to stop calculating subsequent rows after the formula script encounters an error. |
| CMP-1002 | Fixed an error preventing a metric set file from being opened if its saved visualization included a template cell ID. |
| DUN-94913 | Fixed an issue that could prevent single sign-on using federated authentication from working when embedded in an iframe on a page with a different origin/domain. |
| DUN-94927 | Fixed an issue that could prevent view parameters from remaining connected to a slicer comparison measure when adding new slicer hierarchies. |
| DUN-94932 | Fixed an issue that could cause numeric columns from Google BigQuery to be discovered as the incorrect type. |
| DUN-94940 | Specifying IsGlobal/isGlobal as true is no longer required when creating an account through the API on instances without multi-tenancy or without any tenants. |