What's New in Dundas BI
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1. Overview
A list of new features and enhancements available with the release of Dundas BI 2.6.
2. Data Preparation and Analysis
- Connect to SharePoint Online Lists / Excel Services using Online credentials authentication
- Automatically add the OLAP cube when creating a new cube perspective via the context menu
- Turn off automatic hierarchy generation in the hierarchy designer
- Data Cubes:
- Insert transforms without having to pre-select a connection line
- Open the Data Cube Elements panel from the Process Result context menu
- Performance improvements for in-memory storage
- New transforms:
- Null Replacement - Check for null values and replace them with a user-specified value
- Transpose - Turn columns into rows and rows into columns
- Metric Sets:
- Pre-select the right measure when adding a state group on a table column
- Apply a formula to metric sets with compatible time hierarchies
3. Design and View
- Use the View panel or 'pinch-to-zoom' when the re-size mode is scale.
- New view containers for embedding no longer use iFrames
- Open the corresponding dashboard when editing a notification from My Profile
- Use the Placeholder As URL option when setting up drill down, navigate, or hover over interactions
- Position a hover over popup window using the getPopup() method
- Filters / Parameters:
- Option to check all similar parameters when binding filters
- Show an icon in datetime, calendar, and member filters to indicate the filter can be opened
- Improved performance when searching OLAP hierarchy members in filter controls
- Single number filter and numeric properties accept numbers with commas
4. Data Visualizations
- Color / Size rules in maps, charts, tables, and treemaps now have a Display In Legend option
- Chart:
- Align labels inside bars towards the start or end of each bar
- Allow text placed outside of data points to overlap with data points or other labels
- Table:
- Text columns now indicate which element they are bound to by default
- Get the hierarchy members of the selected rows in a table using a script
- Show item counts in subtotals captions and tooltips
- Map:
- Use the Show Only Requested Maps property to load only the map resources dragged from Explore
- Data Label:
- Allow HTML tags in the data to be rendered by the browser
5. Administration
- Show virtual Windows user accounts in the Accounts screen
- Promote virtual Windows user accounts to Windows user accounts
- Search within the Accounts, Groups, or Tenants screens by ID
- Detect invalid time dimension IDs using a new health check option
- Configure project permissions when creating a new project
- Easily access the About page which displays product version information
- New DBIE export files can be imported without requiring live connection to OLAP data sources
6. Installation / Deployment
- Deployment Console application for silent install can now check for prerequisites and automatically install them if missing
- Instance upgrade prompts for new license if upgrading from one major version to another
7. API / Branding / Integration
- The SeatCount type is now a struct instead of a class
- Determine if a license feature is enabled using the REST/JS API