August 2021 Dashboard Release Notes
Release Name - pi.2021-08-26
Release Date - Sep 3, 2021
We are pleased to present our latest offering of pi - our August 2021 release! This page helps summarise and familiarise you with the changes we have made, and is supported (where applicable) with useful videos to help explain the changes we have delivered.
Dec 13, 2021 - in response to a Java security vulnerability around Log4J2, this version of the dashboard needs to be updated to a version from our patched November 21 (inclusive) - or mitigating actions taken to provide security assurances - more information can be found HERE
22/09/2021 - a patch release has been made available for the August 2021 release. This patch relates to an issue with Excel exports (pi#417) and charts downloaded to PDF (pi#261), you can find further information in the Fixed section below. Download the latest version (2021-08-26.1) by clicking the Download It Now link above.
Before upgrading, we recommend taking a backup. You can find more information here.
Here’s what we’ll cover;
- 1 Added
- 1.1 Allow colours values to reflect on chart legend (Zendesk#15380)
- 1.2 Resize Rotated Table Columns (Zendesk#15597)
- 1.3 Slider ‘Category Object’ styling (Zendesk#16159)
- 1.4 Information displayed when adding a duplicate variable (Zendesk#16345)
- 1.5 Adding additional hidden data to charts (Zendesk#15545)
- 1.6 Alphabetical sort of link buttons (Zendesk#16163,16623)
- 1.7 Defining the tomcat session cookie name (Zendesk#16636)
- 2 Fixed
- 2.1 Styling issue on themes - tables/charts (Zendesk#12538)
- 2.2 Forgotten password emails not sending (Zendesk#13646,16720,17157)
- 2.3 Parent table scroll position resets when selecting a row (Zendesk#15701,16536)
- 2.4 Table Duplication in same chart cell (Zendesk#15239,16173)
- 2.5 Display Column as HTML on Measures (Zendesk#16169)
- 2.6 Restoring repository on dashboard install (Zendesk#16153)
- 2.7 Chart Filter changing when dashboard is restarted (Zendesk#10632,12574,14361,15047,16205)
- 2.8 Tooltips on full size Custom maps
- 2.9 Table sorting on drill up (Zendesk#15701,16536)
- 2.10 Table scroll position in Drill levels (Zendesk#15701,16536,16714)
- 2.11 Admin users were unable to set a user theme when the user did not have the relevant permission (Zendesk#11949)
- 2.12 Numeric columns were being sorted as strings rather than numbers (Zendesk#14974,16430)
- 2.13 Sorting table columns with null values (Zendesk#15700)
- 2.14 Order By on object should be respected when using Object Replacement (Zendesk#16703)
- 2.15 Pagination in pi Reports (Zendesk#16670)
- 2.16 Tables exporting as blank or with missing data (Zendesk#16975,17100,17115,17123,17154, 17230)
- 2.17 Letter & number sort in Chart Link buttons (Zendesk#17181)
- 2.18 Excel export missing rows from a table (Zendesk#17526,17528)
- 2.19 Windows installation not working when \t is in the path (Zendesk#16999)
- 2.20 Session conflict between Dashboards (Zendesk#16636)
- 2.21 Scheduler errors not visible in the dashboard (Zendesk#12982)
- 2.22 Scheduler fails on upgrade/ migration (Zendesk#16294)
- 3 Keeping An Eye On pi
Added
Allow colours values to reflect on chart legend (Zendesk#15380)
Chart Editor
This functionality allows defined colour values to appear in the legend even if the related values do not exist in the data. This option is only available for chart types that can display a Legend, please refer to the following list of Chart Types for clarification:
Bar/Column/Area chart
Stacked Bar/Column/Area chart
100% Stacked Bar/Column/Area chart
Spline/Step Area chart
Line/Spline/Step Line chart
Scatter/Bubble chart
Waterfall charts
Column Range charts
Pie/Doughnut
Pie/Doughnut Variable Radius
Spider/Radar/Wind Rose
Funnel/Pyramid
Video
We’ve created a short video to explain this in a bit more detail.
Resize Rotated Table Columns (Zendesk#15597)
Chart Types
It is now possible to edit the size of rotated table columns (rows) in the same way as regular tables. Both the header column and the rows can be resized using percentage/ratio or absolute sizing. This can be done in the chart editor in the ‘Attributes’ section.
Slider ‘Category Object’ styling (Zendesk#16159)
Themes
It is now possible to style the Slider category object. In the themes panel, under style/dashboard, there is a new class '.pi-style__category-objects-slider.category-object-slider .pi_style__slider-generic-definition'.
This will alter the style of the slider when the category object panel is open.
In order to change the colour of the slider, add a ‘background’ style as shown below.
The styles will apply to the two handles and the connecting bar.
Information displayed when adding a duplicate variable (Zendesk#16345)
Configuration
On both the User and Settings variables screens an ‘i' information icon appears if a new variable is added which is the same as a variable that has already been already defined. This includes magic (unseen) variables as well as user and system variables. Any variable which overrides a variable already defined in the system, will have it’s security level set to the same as the variable which has already been defined and this cannot be modified. A warning will be displayed when users hover over the i icon.
In addition to this, if you add the same variable name twice the following message will be displayed.
Video
We’ve created a short video to explain this in a bit more detail.
Adding additional hidden data to charts (Zendesk#15545)
Charts
There is now a new section in the Chart Editor called ‘Additional Data’. This section allows users to add additional data that can be configured to hidden for charts in addition to the currently available option for tables.
It also means that users will no longer need to add data to a table, and set it to invisible in the ‘Attributes’ section. Instead, they will add hidden data for both charts and tables in the new ‘Additional Data’ section.
Any existing setup for hidden table column configuration will continue to work, the only change is that dashboard has been configured to also allow hidden data for charts.
For more information, please refer to this section.
If you have already set columns in Tables to invisible, the information will be retained but will be moved from the ‘Attributes’ section to the new ‘Additional Data’ section.
For Tables, you will be able to use Dimensions and Measures as hidden data but you will only be able to add Measures as hidden data for other chart types such as Bar Charts.
Video
We’ve created a short video to explain this in a bit more detail.