Bold BI Release History - 4.1
4.1.111
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- Fixed issue in the data source designer where the Save button was not working.
Widgets
- Fixed issue in Combo Box selection.
- #11739 – Fixed unwanted refresh during resizing.
Data Sources
- #366226 – Provided ability to display external schema in Redshift.
- #367602 – Fixed filters not applying to Total Percentage expression.
- Fixed issue with expression column not being shown in User Filter.
- Fixed long-running non-cancellable tasks issue in Elasticsearch.
- Fixed issue in connecting to Sendible data source.
Server
- Added support for customers to navigate automatically to dashboard listing if default pinboard is not present
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.105
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- Fixed issue: Preview and publish buttons disabled after resizing.
- Fixed issue: Value is not updated in label parameter elements.
Widgets
- Page size customization support in chart.
Data Sources
- Fixed issue: Performance delay while editing existing expressions when there is a large number of expressions.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.98
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Data Sources
- Provided the support to the QuickBase data source.
Improvements
Designer
- Implemented security improvements for the dashboard and widget exporting.
- Fixed the issue on downloading excel export when the dashboard is embedding inside a form.
- Fixed the issue in exporting for multi-tabbed dashboards.
Widgets
- Fixed the issue with customized legend values displayed on applying filters in a Chart.
- Fixed the issue with line series display on the drilled level if the line + bar combination is set in the chart types for Combo Chart.
Data Sources
- Load balancing improvements – Removed SignalR dependency.
- Load balancing improvements – Upload files to Azure Blob.
- Removed the sessions dependency for OAuth calls.
- #363074 – Fixed the refresh failed issue when SQL transaction has been completed.
Server
- Fixed the issue in sending a failure notification email for the data refresh failure.
- Restricted editing the profile for user-added from LinkedIn.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.90
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Data Sources
- Zuora data source support added.
Improvements
Data Sources
- The bug fixed when MSSQL stored procedure input parameter changed.
- The bug fixed when provide empty username in Mongo DB and updated the Note text.
- The bug fixed in Forecasting SUM aggregation.
- #13014 – Forecasting accuracy improvements.
Embedded BI
- Provided support to generate embed related configuration in Administration page.
Server
- Removed the payments and subscriptions page and added a link for navigating to the Bold ID subscription page.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.84
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #12367 – Fixed issue on share tables option visibility in the data source page.
Data Sources
- #12284 – Fixed bug in the Mailchimp template dashboard loading forever.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.83
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- Fixed the issue where data was always shown for unmapped users in the user-based filter.
Widgets
- Fixed the issue of empty point settings not being maintained in charts.
- Fixed the trend line issue when the summary type is set as ‘None’ in a chart.
- Fixed the issue where the axis format was not visible when the axis title was hidden.
Data Sources
- Fixed the issue with the dynamic connection string switch button not being aligned properly.
- Added a new API to handle actions that must be performed before widget rendering.
- Fixed an issue with CSV data insertion bug when columns have trailing whitespaces.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.82
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Server
- #12436 – Fixed the API issue to get the list of drafts (api/v4.0/dashboards/drafts).
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.81
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Designer
- #11972 – Provided option to “Include items that will be added in future” in the user-based filter configuration window.
Improvements
Designer
- #11613 – Fixed the performance issue while resizing the dashboard.
- #11675 – Fixed the columns that were not listed in the expressions window.
Data Sources
- Done UI review changes for connection creation UI.
- #12232 – Fixed refresh issue while configuring both code view and expressions.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.78
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Widgets
- #11692 – Fixed cropping in Chart widget while setting the axis range min value as zero.
- #11329 – Fixed console exception during “all checkbox un selection” in Combo Box widget if both display and value members configured.
Data Sources
- #12055 – Fixed Freshsales refresh failure with “newline literal found in data” error due to backward incompatibility.
Embedded BI
- Enabled Single Sign On support to Designer and Data source designer embedding with Iframe
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.77
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Data Sources
- #11675 – The issue with “searching for a column name with middle name” has been fixed.
- #11675 – The bug in “Scroller not showing up after searching for an invalid column name in expression column list window” has been fixed.
- #11671 – Support provided to search column name for identifying long column names in initial filters.
- The issue with “Extracting null schema types” has been fixed.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.75
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Widgets
- Fixed console errors that occurred while performing filter interaction in Combo Box.
Data Sources
- Improved OAuth failure message with the reason for failure.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.73
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- Fixed the exported image/PDF file being overlapped while exporting the combine widget.
Widgets
- #11679 – The issue with “Conditional formatting update for direct aggregated expression column” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Accumulation charts drill-down and resizing” has been fixed.
- Fixed “No data display issue” in map widget when longitude and latitude are alone bound.
Data Sources
- The issue with “Refresh failure for data sources configured using dashboard parameters” has been fixed.
- Data Extraction – Actual values are inserted as strings instead of an empty row for the null type schema.
- Web pagination maximum iterations count increased to 50K.
Server
- Removed the “coming soon” text in the custom domain SSL upload dialog box.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.72
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #11365 – The issue with being unable to use a dashboard parameter from another data source has been fixed.
Widgets
- The issue with “The exception when closing the card maximize view” has been fixed.
Data Sources
- Todoist and Infusionsoft OAuth failures have been fixed.
- Facebook API upgraded to v11.0.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.71
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #11261 – Fixed the column remove issue, which contains the existing column name while exporting Excel/CSV.
- #4826 – Fixed the dashboard auto refresh that failed when using the text widget.
Widgets
- #11329 – The bug with “Combo Box filtering, if the data contains special characters like comma in data” has been fixed.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.69
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- Design mode performance improvements such as,
- Improvements to the rendering of the chart widget’s property panel.
- Scrollable dashboards add or remove rows performance improvements.
- Open expression dialog performance improvement.
- #11296 – Fixed an issue where the given file name was not updated when exporting the PDF.
Widgets
- #6330 – The unwanted refresh in the chart widget has been removed for better performance.
- #11210 – The console error that occurred during mouse hover on the grid widget header (I.e., header with special characters) has been resolved.
Data Sources
- Pagination for REST URLs with dashboard parameters.
- Google Analytics – Fixed a Schema mismatch in the preview and extract.
Server
- #11251 – The length cannot be less than zero (Parameter ‘length’) issue was fixed while rendering the embed dashboard with server-side data source filter.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.68
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Designer
- Provided support to disable the loading indicator based on property in the refresh setting window.
Widgets
- Provided support to disable virtual loading for pager in Grid widget.
Improvements
Designer
- General performance tweaks
- Fixed virtual scrolling not working for shared tables issue.
- Fixed console error while applying the dashboard parameter in the parameter window.
Data Sources
- #4770 – Redirect URL issue has been fixed for the Azure DevOps connector.
- The bug is fixed when a specific CSV file is not connecting in a generic Web API data source.
- The redirect url issue has been fixed in devops
- Fixed Freshworks CRM pagination issue
Widgets
- Direct aggregated expression will be treated as calculated fields in Pivot.
- #11089 – Fixed legends overlap issue in view mode for Charts.
- #5368 – Fixed issue with page size maintenance when disabling virtual loading in Grid.
- Fixed issue with Grid virtual scrolling for a specific resolution.
- Fixed widget level console errors if browser resized before layout rendering complete.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.64
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Data Sources
- The bug fixed when connecting the on-premise JIRA Server as BoldBI Data source.
- The data extraction issue for the SQL data sources has been fixed .
- The bug fixed in redirect URL in DevOps.
Widgets
- #324754 – The bug fixed in Text Widget for popup cropping with window container.
- Pivot Grid related bug fixes
- #333208, #335511 – The bug fixed in pivot header display on scroll if Show Group Bar property is disabled.
- #317790 – Header UI collapse issue on enabling Text Wrap property in Pivot has been fixed.
- The issue with filter popup data loading for the data contains special characters has been resolved.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.62
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #336070 – The issue with “Map widget did not render properly when exporting the schedule” has been fixed.
Data Sources
- #332234 – Removed casting for date filtering in Elasticsearch thereby improving Elasticsearch query performance.
- #335168 – Improved performance of Podio data source.
Widgets
- The issue with “Filter not cleared properly in the Multi combo box custom widget” has been fixed.
- Provided support for displaying the column name based on the renaming done during the design process of Multi combo box custom widget columns.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.60
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #334605 – The issue with the “Waiting indicator of combine data source showing in the wrong position” has been fixed.
- #336254 – The issue with “Notify property change is triggered unwantedly” has been fixed.
- Provided the search option for categories drop-down in publish dialog box.
Data Sources
- The issue with “Dynamics CRM OAuth failed for multi-tenant” has been fixed.
Widgets
- The bug in “Pivot Grid rendering while binding nested expression column (i.e. using expression column inside of another expression column)” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Pivot linking when row and value data alone were configured” has been fixed.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.58
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Widgets
- #311934 – Now, you can perform AVG aggregation in Pivot Grid.
Improvements
Server
- Removed clone dashboard option.
- #319910 – Added automatic activation support in CSV user import API.
Data Sources
- #335385 – Pagination support for Azure DevOps raw query.
- Fixed refresh failed for Xero due to too many request issues.
- #335785 – The bug in “The expression getting deleted after a click on the run button” has been fixed.
Widgets
- Now, the aggregated expression column bound in Pivot will be treated as calculated fields.
- #329811 – Issue with scrolling in Mac machine has been resolved.
- The bug with “Linking operation for Pivot grand total cells” has been fixed.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.56
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- #334719 – Fixed the dimension filter search issue by adding string contains instead of startswith.
- #334545 – The issue with “The widget header name that was not considered for excel export” has been fixed.
- The issue with “The advance color codes are missed while exporting images and PDF” has been fixed.
Data Sources
- The issue with “Connection string null for extract mode data sources” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Refresh failure in code view configured data source” has been fixed.
- #327233 – Implemented SSH support for MongoDB data source.
- #334386 – The issue in “Other language names in a column name for Google sheets” has been fixed.
Widgets
- #331915 – Now, you can trim the axis labels of the Heat Map.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.54
Cloud Analytics Server
Improvements
Designer
- The issue in “The widget action menu is shown even if only one action is configured” has been fixed.
- The issue in “Combine widget rendering” has been fixed.
- The issue in “Unwanted widget list was maintained in the master-slave filter configuration” has been fixed.
Data Sources
- #327005 – Added help icon in SQL data source page for database server IP address whitelisting in Bold BI Cloud.
- #332234 – The bug in “Date column format for Elasticsearch data source” has been fixed.
- Improvements were made on unwanted failing requests for a custom widget.
Server
- Fixed missing logos in error pages.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding
ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.50
Cloud Analytics Server
New Features
Designer
- Now, you can search for tables on the data source page.
Widgets
- Provided an option to set width for chart trendlines.
- Now, you can customize the row height and column width of the pivot grid.
- Now, you can customize empty points display in charts.
- Provided an option to hide empty headers in the pivot grid.
- Now, you can customize value and range label colors based on range values.
- Provided an option to disable mouse zooming and panning in Bing Maps.
Server
- Now, you can schedule a dashboard export to the FTP location along with email delivery.
- Now, you can schedule a dashboard export with the different file formats, sizes, and orientations.
- Now, you can track schedule runs and data refresh history with application UI.
- Now, you can update site settings using REST API.
Improvements
- Provided the support to hide dashboard theming option.
- Improved the responsiveness in the dashboard designer window.
- Provided gzip compression to reduce the static file download size.
- Improved warning message when dashboards used in slideshows and multi-tab dashboards are deleted.
- Improved template dashboard deployment failure to get more details on exceptions.
New Features
- Provided support to embed pinboard.
- Provided API to create, copy, and delete pinboard.
Important Note
- You need to use the updated embed JS version, hosted in CDN.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.1.36
WindowsLinux
New Features
- Provided support to embed pinboard.
- Provided API to create, copy, and delete pinboard.
Important Note
- You need to use the updated embed JS version, hosted in CDN.
Designer
- You can now pass current logged-in user identity, such as email and full name to SQL data source query or live web data sources connection as a parameter.
Widgets
- Provided support to select multiple data points in the chart.
- Now, Bing Maps supports bubble shape type.
- Now, Bing Maps can act as a master widget.
Data Sources
- Now, you can connect and create dashboards by using the following new data
sources:
- Wistia
- Slack
- Zoho CRM
- Elasticsearch ODBC
- Microsoft Access ODBC
- Vertica ODBC
- Now, you can connect and create dashboards by using the following new data
sources:
- Provided support to access SSH enabled SQL data sources.
- Provided support for impersonation user for SQL Server and SSAS data source.
Server
- Support for MySQL: Now, Bold BI application can be setup using MySQL as meta-database for Linux environment.
- Now, you can publish dashboard from any site to other sites using the external site publish option.
- Username support has been added so that you can make email address as optional when creating a new user.
- Now, you can track the schedule run and data refresh history from application UI.
- Now, you can choose the default login option for the Bold BI application.
- Now, you can update the site settings in Bold BI using the REST API.
- Now, you can publish the dashboard between Bold BI sites using the REST API.
Identity Provider
- Provided custom SSO support using the JSON Web Tokens.
- Now, you can add additional Site Administrator users in UMS.
- Now, you can copy the branding settings while creating new sites from UMS.
- Provided REST API support for creating new tenants.
Improvements
Designer
- Provided an option to expand and collapse widgets panel in the designer.
- Now, you can interact with dashboard viewer simultaneously while exporting the dashboard to pdf, csv, and excel file.
Widgets
- Now, you can perform period-over-period comparison for date fields.
- Now, you can modify start or end date of date picker without reconfiguring the existing selection.
Data Sources
- Now, you can fetch more records from extract mode data sources, maximum row limit is increased from 10,000 to 10 million.
- Data refresh is now working as expected when a column is removed in source data source.
- Relative date filter now works as expected in conversion of date column.
- Week year function now shows correct year value.
- Incremental data refresh now works fine in SQL extract data source.
- TO_CHAR() expression now works as expected in PostgreSQL data source.
- CONCAT() expression now works as expected in Oracle data source.
- Fetching newly added columns from SQL data source table now works as expected.
- Period-over-period widget now works properly with renamed columns in Google BigQuery.
- Oracle stored procedure for dashboard parameters and null parameters now works as expected.
Server
- Provided option to set default database when configuring data store for intermediate database.
- Improved the responsiveness of the edit option dashboard.
- Improved MySQL database support to connect without ODBC adaptor.
- Provided GZip compression to reduce the static file download size.
- Added warning message when dashboard used in slideshow and multi-tab dashboard get deleted.
- Provided the support to hide dashboard theming option.
- Scheduling functionality has been improved to notify the schedule owner by mail in case of failures.
- Scheduling functionality has been improved to auto-stop when five or more consecutive failures occur and also notifies to the schedule owner.
Identity Provider
- Now, Site Administrators can download diagnostics logs from within the application.
- Now, Site Administrators can assign multiple site access to other users.
Breaking Changes
- From v4.1.36, Windows users can host Bold BI on IIS only, IIS Express support is removed.
- Existing Windows users those who are upgrading Bold BI to v4.1.36 need to configure data store before upgrading. Now, configuring data store is mandatory even you are not using any extract mode data sources. It is now used for storing some meta-data. https://help.boldbi.com/embedded-bi/site-administration/datastore-settings/
- If you have already installed the Bold Reports Enterprise on your machine, installing this latest Bold BI will break the existing Bold Reports login functionalities. To resolve this, please refer to the following documentation and apply the patch accordingly. https://help.boldreports.com/enterprise-reporting/administrator-guide/how-to/apply-patches-to-bold-reports-to-support-common-login-with-latest-bi/
- Custom widgets importing location has been changed to the version v4.1.36 for Windows and Linux environment. For more information, refer to the following link. https://help.boldbi.com/embedded-bi/visualizing-data/visualization-widgets/custom-widget/#importing-widget-in-designer
Known Issues
- If you have configured both Bold BI and Bold Reports on a same machine, JWT SSO users will not be able to login to Bold Reports.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.