What's New in Dundas BI

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1. Overview

A list of highlights from the new features and enhancements available with the release of Dundas BI 7.0.

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For a complete list of new functionality and behavior changes, see the List of changes in version 7.0.

2. Installation / Deployment

3. Data Preparation and Analysis

4. Data Visualizations

  • New color scale legend to display the ranges of colors generated by color rules
  • New heat map chart type
  • New Identify Clusters recommendation for visualizations like scatter plots or bubble charts
  • Automatically sort stacked bar charts
  • Display slicer values in tooltips and labels
  • Hide color rules from the legend when there is no matching data
  • Set up rounded borders and round data images

5. Design and View

  • Use the new Menu component on a dashboard to enable users to navigate through other views easily
  • Relative fonts resize on responsive dashboards when viewed on various devices and browser sizes
  • New menu layer to allow using better navigation options when designing a dashboard for use in responsive mode
  • Pass parameter values between multiple views in the sub-canvas view container
  • New data tokens to query the database at runtime
  • Set custom permissions for notes
  • Add groups as recipients for notifications
  • Various improvements to the Dundas BI default theme

6. Administration

  • Improved Administration user interface
  • Segregate warehouse databases and in-memory storage types by tenant
  • Export and import the administration configuration settings
  • Admin users can manage CSS, JavaScript, HTML override files and installed extensions from the Administration user interface
  • System administrators can promote tokens created by users to global tokens
  • Log detailed health check error information
  • New health check to find and fix duplicate table relationships
  • Select the number of CPU cores that should be used and specify which ones
  • Disable/enable tenant to support tenant data migration to/from tenant warehouse database
  • New Job Failure Email Throttle Period configuration option to limit job failure emails

7. API / Branding / Integration

  • New IsAlive method to check the status of the Dundas BI website

8. See also

Dundas Data Visualization, Inc.
400-15 Gervais Drive
Toronto, ON, Canada
M3C 1Y8

North America: 1.800.463.1492
International: 1.416.467.5100

Dundas Support Hours:
Phone: 9am-6pm, ET, Mon-Fri
Email: 7am-6pm, ET, Mon-Fri