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.

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For a complete list of new functionality and behavior changes, see the List of changes in version 10.0.

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

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

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

Easier detection of potential outliers using the new option under Recommended in the Re-Visualize menu

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

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