What's New in Dundas BI

1. Overview

A list of highlights from the new features and enhancements available with the release of Dundas BI 5.0.1.

2. General

• "Favorite" or hide views on your home screen
• Interface settings such as dockable window placement and position are saved

3. Data Visualizations

• Word Cloud visualization
• Create path relationships between symbols on a map or diagram
• Use the range's fill on gauge pointers
• Switch a table column between row headers and flat column from the re-visualize menu
• Change cell text using state styles in a table

4. Data Preparation and Analysis

• Data cubes
  
  • Use a Filter Transform to filter for Not Equals Value Or Is Null, or Contains Any
  • Introduce an offset to Calculated Element placeholders
  • Include or exclude boundaries in select transforms when indicating a range
• Connect to SharePoint Office 365 using an OData data connector
• Use a URL to connect to XML and flat files
• Data input
  • Paste datasets into multiple cells
  • Select and delete multiple rows
• Set the time of the day when a fiscal calendar starts
• Create a metric set with one click when editing a data cube

5. Design and View

• Animate data changing over time using a Play Axis
• Use the Re-Visualize option Revert to Original to undo visualization changes on a checked-in dashboard
  
• Display group page numbers in report
• Select multiple parents in a cascading hierarchy
• Add formatting overrides to specific ranges in the data
• Indicate search options when using the filter search
• Use formula measures as dynamic measures
• Change the text of the All member in a hierarchy
• Ignore mouse events on some components to reach the underlying controls
• Set up an interaction for expanding and collapsing with a single click
• Improved auto-complete pops up automatically in the script editor
• Direct access to the JavaScript API documentation for the current object or property
• Include a placeholder for the view name in the notification email

6. Administration

• Filter logs by a tenant
• Control whether data connector settings are overwritten when importing from DBIE files
• New application privilege which can disallow users from building warehouse/in-memory storage models
• Home screen
  • Always re-direct the user to the custom homepage or view instead of the application home screen
  • Tag a file to hide it from the home screen for all users

7. See also

• Dundas BI release notes
• List of changes in Version 5.0