What's New in Dundas BI
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1. Overview
A list of new features and enhancements available with the release of Dundas BI 4.0.
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2. Data Visualizations
- Smart visualizations
- Relationship Diagram
- Drag nodes to re-arrange them
- Auto zoom to fit the viewport
- Support for data brushing
- Change the link type to Curved
- Connect data to the width of the links
- Map
- Improved matching with map names
- Define the default viewport center and zoom
- Show labels only on elements with data
- Support for data brushing
- Auto connect to metric set data
- Diagram
- Improved support for SVG files generated from Visio
- Table
- Wrap row header text
- Wrap column header text when using a hierarchy
- Change the formatting of custom group headers
- Apply state styles to the entire row
- Hide grand total with Single Indented Column
- Top-align corner area text
- Freeze columns
- Slide animation for cell value change
- Customize the cursor on individual columns
- Disable column resize
- Display subtotals in frozen total rows
- Hide or show table columns from the context menu
- Sankey Diagram
- Chart
- Define the position at which two axes intersect
- Display measures of different units on separate axes more easily
- Hide or show series using legend checkboxes
- Hide or show series from the context menu
- Change cursor for data points
- Formula visualizations
- Treemap
- Add annotations (notes)
- Add states styles
- Support for data brushing
- Gauge
- Add annotations (notes)
- Show measure values for ranges
- Data label
- Add annotations (notes)
- Override the tooltip mouse delay for data visualizations
- Display rounded numbers for color and size rules
3. Data Preparation and Analysis
- Re-wire the data flow to adjust to changes in the structure of your data
- Include hours, minutes, and seconds in your time dimension
- Use hierarchies in formulas
- Data Connectors
- EXASolution database
- Vertica database
- Use a JSON key instead of the p12 key for Google data connectors
- Discover and add only selected tables
- Data Input
- Test bridge parameter scripts from the Data Cube designer
- Advanced options for Missing Data Rules
- Set up Always Encrypted with SQL Server 2016
- Use the filter transform to filter dates
- Download uploaded data connector and image files
- Rebuild data cubes from the context menu
- Display both years when a fiscal year is in two calendar years
4. Design and View
- Improved contextual guidelines for aligning controls
- Select all the adapters in a template area with a keyboard shortcut
- Report/Scorecard
- Add metadata labels to the report
- Indicate page size for the report
- Map the repeater to parameters in an embedded dashboard
- Change the distribution and size of multiple reports
- Automatically generate headers
- Automatically generate a report from a table
- Repeat group headers on a new page
- Create additional template areas
- Hide and Hide if empty on template areas
- Disable the no data indicator
- Set the maximum width and height for docked adapters
- Make corrections to existing data via Data Annotations
- Set up a Data Input interaction
- Add contextual measures
- Re-order action items on an event
- Hold Shift to ignore drop zones on a control
- View performance information for embedded items
- Set fixed width, height, and position in a resizable dashboard
- Use trend and forecasting functions on implicit time hierarchies
- Use the embed library to make embedding Dundas BI into other web applications easier
- Simplified filter selection with Smart filters
- Customize notifications per recipient
5. Administration
- Installation
- Create Azure SQL databases
- Create Amazon RDS databases
- Authentication
- Federated authentication
- Active directory authentication from multiple forests
- Log on with Windows User Principal Name (UPN)
- Command line
- Install the license silently
- Import and export application data
- Set the configuration value for non-core modules
- Bind the session to an IP address
- Restrict Admin users to a range of IP Addresses
- View inherited custom attributes
- Export and Import
- Export and import the System Everyone group
- Configure the default PDF size
- Sort accounts
- Multi-Tenancy
- Create tenant users from the tenant screen
- Export and Import tenants
- Separate custom logon page by tenant
- View which tenant is associated with a file system entry
- Publish to a tenant project
- Users are prevented from saving tenant content in non-tenant projects
- Specify a tenant when duplicating a project
- Jobs
- Start and stop jobs from the Admin area
- View the schedule status of a job
- Email notifications if a data cube build has failed
- Rebuild database indexes
- Manage user notifications
- Configuration settings
- Maximum file upload size
- Default time zone
- Add a password to protect the data warehouse connection string
- Disable the automatic creation of My Project
- Set Excel and PowerPoint meta data
- Elastic sessions are automatically promoted to regular sessions
- Logs
- Log queries sent to a database
- Log account password changes
- Export logs
- Track logon history