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Bold BI Release History - 3.2

3.2.18

Cloud Analytics Server

Released on May 05, 2020

New Features

Designer

  • Provided the dashboard parameter support. Now, you can create the parameters and change
    the values dynamically in dashboard view mode.
  • Provided the row-level security support using the user-based filter feature. Now, users
    can be restricted to the data based on their login context.
  • Provided the support to import widgets with data configuration from other existing
    dashboards into a new dashboard.
  • Provided the support for Themes (Preview). Now, you can switch between light and dark
    themes in view mode for dashboards.
  • Provided the support to enable or disable the auto–update of data preview.

Widgets

  • Provided a new widget called Rich Text Editor.
  • Provided a new widget called Spline Area chart.
  • Provided a new widget called Period over Period Comparison to compare the values of two
    different date ranges in charts (Except for Combo and Radar Polar charts).
  • Provided the Dark Theme support for Period over Period widget.

Data Sources

  • Now, you can connect and create the dashboards with following new data sources.
    • Google Ads
    • Facebook
    • Facebook Ads
    • LinkedIn
    • Zoho Invoice
    • Amazon RDS
    • CData with MySQL endpoints
  • Provided the support to connect to Web data source in live mode for limited records.
  • Added the support to preview data sources from data source listing page.
  • The name of Zendesk data source is now changed to Zendesk support.

Server

  • Pinboards: Create the personalized pinboards by pinning widgets from the multiple
    dashboards. This greatly simplifies the tracking of important metrics from the different dashboards.
  • Multi-tabbed dashboard: Create a multi-tabbed dashboard by adding two or more
    dashboards.
  • Default view: Users can set a default view for the dashboard from their dashboard views
    collection.
  • Auto-save filter: The Auto-save filter automatically saves dashboard filter changes and
    retains it on the next dashboard rendering.

Improvements

Data Sources

  • Optimized and improved data for Google AdSense reports.
  • Added an auto retry on refresh failures for web data sources due to network failures.
  • Improved UI for Asana and Infusionsoft data sources.
  • Provided the support for OpenQuery and internal cache in stored procedure with improved
    performance.
  • Added the support for Enum data type in MySQL data source.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.

3.2.16

Windows

Released on April 16, 2020

Embedded BI allows developers to seamlessly add Bold BI® analytics within the
applications they develop. With the
April Release, Embedded BI is bundled with many features as follows.

  • New JavaScript component for embedding your dashboards in addition to the iFrame based
    embedding.
  • Support to embed a widget alone from a dashboard.
  • Support for dashboard and widget layout customization with options to choose the headers
    and
    export settings.
  • Support for choosing a default theme.
  • Support to apply filters on-the-fly from your application.
  • Support for dynamic connection string.
  • Support for auto refresh.
  • Support for events.

New Features

Designer

  • Provided the dashboard parameter support. Now, you can create the parameters and change
    the values dynamically in dashboard view mode.
  • Provided the row-level security support using the user-based filter feature. Now, users
    can be restricted to the data based on their login context.
  • Provided the support to import widgets with data configuration from other existing
    dashboards into a new dashboard.
  • Provided the support for Themes (Preview). Now, you can switch between light and dark
    themes in view mode for dashboards.

Widgets

  • Provided the support for adding custom widgets (Preview).
  • Provided a new widget Rich Text Editor.
  • Provided a new widget Spline Area chart.
  • Provided a new widget Period over Period Comparison to compare the values of two
    different date ranges in Charts (Except for Combo and Radar Polar charts).

Data Sources

  • Now, you can connect and create the dashboards with following new data sources.
    • Google Ads
    • RavenDB
    • Gmail
    • Amazon RDS
  • Provided the support to connect to Web data source in live mode for limited records.
  • Added the support to preview data sources from data source listing page.
  • The name of Zendesk data source is now changed to Zendesk support.

Server

  • Pinboards: Create the personalized pinboards by pinning widgets from multiple
    dashboards. This greatly simplifies the tracking of important metrics from the different dashboards.
  • Multi-tabbed dashboard: Create a multi-tabbed dashboard by adding two or more
    dashboards.
  • Default view: Users can set a default view for the dashboard from their dashboard views
    collection.
  • Auto-save filter: The Auto-save filter automatically saves dashboard filter changes and
    retains it on the next dashboard rendering.
  • OAuth and Open ID group import: Provided the support to import groups from OAuth and
    Open ID.

Improvements

Data Sources

  • Optimized and improved data for Google AdSense reports.
  • Added an auto retry on refresh failures for web data sources due to network failures.
  • Improved UI for Asana and Infusionsoft data sources.
  • Provided the support for OpenQuery and internal cache in stored procedure with improved
    performance.

Server

  • Simplified the workflow to access the application URL outside the installed machine.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.