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 10.0.
Tip
For a complete list of new functionality and behavior changes, see the List of changes in version 10.0.
2. Installation / Deployment
- Dundas BI now runs on .NET 6 on all platforms, providing performance improvements and enabling access to new functionality
- Ubuntu version 20.04 LTS is supported for deployment and now used by Dundas Docker images
- Debian 11 is supported when deploying Dundas BI on Linux
- Optionally configure Dundas BI to be accessed under a path on your site when deploying on Linux, Docker, or Kubernetes, similar to the virtual directory option for Windows
3. Data Preparation and Analysis
- New Generic Web data provider for connecting to any online data source with script enabling more complex authentication or paging
- New Flatten JSON and Flatten XML transforms to extract data columns from JSON or XML such as from web data sources
- Change the data provider for an existing data connector when needed, such as when switching between drivers
- You can now customize the level names of time dimension hierarchies
- When sorting by a measure, you can choose to ignore hierarchy groupings to sort all rows independently
4. Design and View
- Horizontal & vertical text alignment options are now included in the Quick Access Properties popup for all users
- Customize the styling of drop downs in filters and drop down list components
- The effective values of tokens such as ranges of dates are now included when exporting to Excel and including parameter values
- Use the Tab Index property to disable keyboard navigation or customize it if you can't reorder elements from the Layers window
5. Data Visualizations
- Easier detection of potential outliers using the new option under Recommended in the Re-Visualize menu
6. General / Application
- Right-click to open or edit a file more easily that you found in the file References dialog
- Schedule events such as notifications or data cube builds to run monthly on multiple specified days or first/last number of days
7. Administration
- View all references made to a user-defined custom attribute or token
- Click to download the logon history to a CSV file
8. API / Branding / Integration
- Pass the session ID in REST API requests more securely with an authorization header using the Bearer authentication scheme (i.e., Authorization: Bearer <session ID>)
- New API methods /DataCube/ClearDataResultCache/{id}/ (REST) and clearDataResultCache (JS) to programmatically clear all cached data results for the specified data cube
- New tenant setting External Application URI Override can assist with branding by including customized links in emails, shared links, and federated authentication
- New Allowed Embedding Origins config setting can restrict where Dundas BI is allowed to be embedded