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 23.3.

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For a complete list of new functionality and behavior changes, see the List of changes in version 23.3.

Slideshows can now be exported to PDF, PowerPoint, or images, and can be sent through notifications – use them to compile storyboards or larger reports out of individual dashboards, reports, and other views
A table of contents can be added to reports with the entries you choose, with corresponding page numbers included automatically
Select a range of dates along a slider using the Play Axis or the new Hierarchy Slider filter, with the option to pin the start date when you press 'play'
Use the search box in the Parameters window to find all parameters connected to a visualization by its name

Use placeholder keywords in chart axis titles to easily include the current filter value or dynamic element the chart is currently displaying
Choose Multiple to more quickly show and hide several table visualization columns or chart data point series from the context menu
Improved compatibility when importing shapefiles for maps with different text encodings, including UTF-8 when including a CPG file

When enabled by an administrator, choose a user to be notified in case of failure separately for each scheduled notification, data cube using storage, or other job.
Dialogs throughout the application can now be resized horizontally when needed to better accommodate longer text such as long column names.

Drag another data connector over a Manual Select transform in a data cube to re-wire it to another data source compatible with your query and outputting the same columns
New option to use key pair authentication in Snowflake Database data connectors
You can now use JDBC drivers when using a gateway to connect to on-premise data in addition to ODBC
Use the new Check Warnings button when editing a hierarchy to be notified of issues such as duplicate keys or circular references
New Search button in the Data Analysis Panel to find an element more quickly in large metric sets

Bulk add new accounts by dragging a CSV file containing their information to the Accounts page
Set up data cube storage and other jobs to automatically retry up to the specified number of times using the new Job Execution Attempts Count in configuration settings
Optionally set up federated logout when using federated authentication so that logging out of Dundas BI also logs out from the identity provider
Set up default or automatically-appended email message content for sharing and notifications using new configuration settings Default Message Template Content and Enforced Email Content

New microservices move data cube warehouse & in-memory storage away from the main website in containerized deployments on Kubernetes or Docker.