September 2024 - Dashboard Release Notes

JDBC drivers are now loaded into a separate class-loader from system libraries, significantly improving the chances of untested drivers being compatible. As part of this the Apache Drill driver has been included in the default distribution since this was a driver which had such an issue previously.

A new User/Role permission has been added at the Admin level, to determine whether or not the User should be allowed to access/edit the configuration within the APIs tab. The new “edit apis” permission defaults to ‘True’ for Admin users at the User Permission level and ‘False’ for Roles.

We’re excited to offer a completely rebuilt Word (docx) export functionality which is almost instant and reflects any changes you make to charts on your screen (including legend selection).

You can try it out by enabling the beta feature BROWSER_WORD_EXPORT (in pancredit_parameters table) and we’d love to hear your feedback and incorporate feedback into our upcoming releases. At present it only supports certain chart types (highcharts) which doesn’t include tables, card charts, maps. Any unsupported will simply fall back to the existing export functionality.

Example of the section from the new Word output:

Before charts are fully rendered, we populate the cell with the Chart Title to give an indication of what is loading in. Previously, this was just the Chart Name but now this preview will more closely resemble the panel heading that will appear when the chart fully loads. It will show some of the icons that will be displayed as well as the title/subtitle appropriate for that chart. Replacement can not be done at this stage meaning any form of replacement within the title/subtitle will result in the preview not including that element. Translations, however, are available so you can expect any translated values to be represented in the accurately.

We’ve added an innovative way to unlock key-value data in your databases which has traditionally been difficult to report on. Called Custom Fields you can now provide additional configuration to have the Dashboard create objects automatically from the key-value data where previously you would have needed to manually create these for each item. See the DOCUMENTATION_LINK for more details.

Our greatly enhanced, rebuilt pdf and ppt exports for single charts have been enabled by default in this release. If you experience any issue please let us know, for a limited time you can switch back to the old mode by using the beta flag OLD_PDF_EXPORT and OLD_PPT_EXPORT.

By removing some additional variable replacement that wasn’t useful we’ve improved the performance of editable tables. Especially when sending large volumes of data.

Improved report performance by allowing each chart within a report to load in parallel. This does not affect how the charts are rendered, only how they are fetched from the back end. Report performance logs have been updated to display the loading times for each individual chart, as well as an overall loading time, which will now be lower due to the requests for individual charts being asynchronous.