Bold BI Release History - 4.2
4.2.69
Windows Linux Docker KubernetesAzure App Service
New Features
Server
- Added support to run Bold BI as a sub-application in Linux hosting.
- Added support to run Bold BI in localhost of Docker hosting.
IDP & UMS
- Provided REST API support for the following operations:
- Grant user access to the site
- Revoke user access from the site
- List of users having access to the site
- Create new users
- Update users
- View users
- List of sites users can access
- Suspend a tenant
- Activate a tenant
Improvements
Server
- Improved the application startup experience.
- Fixed the issue in Azure AD user import by using Microsoft Graph API instead of Azure AD Graph API.
IDP & UMS
- Added support to change the database name when updating database credentials of the site.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.
4.2.68
Windows LinuxKubernetes
New Features
- Embed the data source designer in JS based embedding.
- Added API to enable/disable the delete widget option in Pinboard.
- NPM package for Bold BI embedded SDK has been published in the NPM portal for JavaScript-based frameworks.
- Get the Iframe URL of the respective dashboards through the REST API.
- UI customization has been enabled for the following elements in the iframe-based
embedding:
- Hide/show theme
- Hide/show dashboard parameters
- Hide/show filter overview
- Hide/show dashboard and widget full screen icon
- Hide/show refresh option
- Hide/show dashboard and widget options menu
- Hide/show widget filters
Widgets
- Enabled pagination in Grid.
- Customize content row heights and column widths in Pivot Grid.
- Show/hide tooltips for all applicable widgets.
- Vertical alignment support in Card widget.
- Customize value label placements in Cartesian Charts:
- Top
- Middle
- Bottom
- Customize empty points in Cartesian Charts:
- Gap
- Zero
- Average
- Hide empty headers in Pivot Grid.
- Trim axis labels in Heat map.
- Customize values of empty cells in Pivot Grid.
Data Sources
- Limit records for SQL extract mode data sources.
- Use the code view mode in the SQL Server Analysis Service data source.
- Open distro mode in elasticsearch data source is supported now.
- Data sampling option to limit the data source records fetched for dashboard design mode.
- Connect to the Amazon Redshift data source in extraction mode.
- Now, create dashboards using the following new data sources,
- Square
- Origami
- Fitbit
- Nutshell
- Gravity Forms
Server
- Schedule export to FTP location.
- Customize the file format for dashboard export.
- More permission options to share permissions for specific modules:
- Create a group
- Manage specific groups
- Create and manage all users
- Manage specific settings
- Manage permission for specific resources
- Set Windows AD and Azure AD as default authentication providers.
- Additional connection parameters in data store configuration.
- Comments support for multi-tabbed dashboards and its widgets.
- Set the time zone and format of data time based on the client’s browser settings.
- Create categories from the navigation menu.
Bold ID
- REST API support for the following operations:
- List sites
- Get site details
- Update site
- Delete site
- Add/update isolation code
- List users
- Update user password
- Delete user
Improvements
- #4237 – the issue with “when applying the filters using the applyFilters method to multi-tab dashboards” has been fixed.
- #6381 – Fixed the user validation issue when the username has + symbol.
- We enabled jQuery no conflict support to use multiple jQuery in the dashboard embedded page.
- Provided the support to use the Syncfusion EJ controls or Bold Reports and Bold BI in a single-page application.
- Enclosed the pinboard styles within the Bold BI scope to avoid style overwriting issues in an embedded application.
- Provided the API support to customize the Widget and Dashboard margins.
- Provided the support to add the preconfigured widgets in the dashboard designer.
- Fixed the drag-and-drop issue in pinboards when the server-side filters are applied.
- Fixed the Multi-tab Dashboard rendering issue when the user does not have permission for the sub dashboards under the Multi-tab dashboard.
Important Note
- You need to use the updated embed JS version, hosted in CDN.
Widgets
- Provided support to limit initial data fetching count (i.e. page size) in the Grid and Chart widgets.
- Provided support to customize font size for all visual elements of the Chart widget from
the property panel:
- Value labels
- Axis labels
- Axis Title
- Legend Items
- Legend Title
- Provided support to customize font size for the following Pivot Grid elements from the
property panel:
- Headers
- Content
- Provided support to disable virtual loading for grid in pagination enabled cases.
- Provided average aggregation support for Pivot Grid.
- Now, the direct aggregated expression column bound in Pivot Grid will be considered as Pivot calculated field.
- Now, you can reach the last record using a single scroll in the chart.
- Provided support to customize legend position for Accumulation Charts.
- Provided support to customize legend overflow mode in Chart widget.
- Provided support to customize line width for Chart trendlines.
- Provided support to customize x-axis intervals in the Chart widget.
- Provided support to change the color of the value and axis labels based on range colors in Radial Gauge.
- Provided support to disable mouse zooming and panning in Bing Maps.
- Provided support to sort both x and y-axis at the same time.
- Provided support to customize legend title in Map widget.
- Provided support to adjust individual padding in the Image widget.
- Provided custom widget exporting support.
- Provided custom widget support in Kubernetes.
- Fixed the unwanted update call for custom widgets.
- Provided support to create a custom category for custom widgets.
- Fixed draft-loading issue for custom widgets.
- Fixed the filter-setting issue for custom widgets.
Breaking Changes
- The custom widget folder placement has been changed in the v4.2 build. We provided a utility to migrate custom widgets created in the lower version of v4.2 , as we have made some API changes in them. Kindly refer to the custom widget UG documentation for more information.
Designer
- #10411 – Fixed the unwanted console errors that occurred while destroying the Bold BI object during embedding.
- #3815 – Fixed the issue on widget maximizes collapsing during the full screen.
- #4254 – Cleared console error when loading properties tab.
- #9244 – No data is displayed in the schedule export when using the custom attribute in code view.
- #9113 – Fixed the exception that occurred while using the dashboard parameter in a stored procedure.
- #5294 – Fixed the issue no data is displayed when drilling down the pie chart when using the column in the Filters section.
- #4309 – Fixed the preview data page display issue while changing the browser zoom size.
- #5234 – Fixed the issue while using the date type dashboard parameter in a stored procedure.
- #4091 – Fixed the combine widget schedule export issue.
- #8822 – Fixed the URL linking not working issue when selecting the Escape Special Characters option
- #7343 – Fixed the data issue in widgets when using the data sources API.
- #4324 – Fixed auto-refresh issue in the text widget control.
- #5350 – Included space between date filter localization text
- #6346 – Fixed the issue “Error throwing in widgets when the null value passed as a filter in impersonating preview”.
- #5283 – Fixed the issue “RTE error container is shown in scheduled export.
- #4327 – Fixed the issue “unhide columns are hidden while editing the data source”.
- #4317 – Fixed the issue “URL parameter value is not applied in Excel export.
- #4128 – Fixed the issue “Edit connection not working properly when token get expired for Web API data source”.
- #7458 – Fixed the issue “Export PDF and image not working when the dashboard contains a chart with an SSAS connection”.
- #4071 – Fixed the stored procedure parameters not maintained issue in UI when editing the data source.
- #8989 – Fixed the data source edit issue from the server page which contains cross data source parameter.
- #8849 – Fixed the expression was removed issue while updating the dashboard parameter value.
- #3821 – Fixed the issue “Downloaded data is different in CSV and Excel file”.
- #8734 – Fixed all column values showing issue while enabling show all columns in view data.
- #4263 – Fixed the issue “Assign Data tab retains focus when moving to another widget instance of ‘properties’ tab”.
- #5225 – The issue with “Autosave filter is misbehaving when dashboard is updated” has been fixed.
- #8935 – The issue with “Changing the column name has no effect in exporting excel and csv” has been fixed.
- #4255 – Fixed the advanced setting formatting issue in SSAS connected.
- #7370 – The issue with “Joining two different tables with the same name in a shared table” has been fixed.
- #8984 – Fixed the export issue in Live Web API data source.
- #4263 – Fixed the sorting issue in SSAS combo box values.
- #339755 – Fixed the issue in saving the Oracle expressions in the code view mode.
- #8840 - Fixed the Stored Procedure Extraction issue in MSSQL data source.
- #3823 – The issue with “The Stored Procedure connection issue while using date input parameter in the time zone UTC -05:00” has been fixed.
- #10971 – Fixed the UUID datatype issue in PostgreSQL.
- #5322 – Fixed the widgets data cleared issue when editing the same data source.
- #8605 – Fixed the Edit Connection unresponsive issue in the data source.
- #4802 – Fixed the expression cleared issue when clicking the run button.
- #4517– The issue with “Breadcrumb label on renaming the column for Map widget” has been fixed.
- #4316 – The issue with “The text widget maintaining its content even after removing the content” has been fixed.
- #9247– The issue with “Date picker data values are unable to select outside the min and max date even limit date property is not set” has been fixed.
- #5227– The issue with “Line chart axis format settings not visible in the property panel” has been fixed.
- #5342– The issue with “Chart Axis label cropping when configuring the chart in small size” has been fixed.
- #5402– Fixed chart legend cropping issue.
- #5127– The issue with “Chart labels are showing in drilled view even if it is unchecked” has been fixed.
- #4203– The issue with “Underlying data for drilled levels in Bing Maps” has been fixed.
- #4203– Fixed the issue in Bing Maps zoom level when the drilled view contains a single data point.
- #5104– The issue with “Pivot grid linking not working when enabling values as rows.
- #8972– The issue with “Custom image/icon in a grid is not working when Allow Text wrap is enabled” has been fixed.
- #4489– The issue with “Values formatting in Gauge while using different language cultures” has been fixed.
- #4145– The issue with “Chart tooltip issue when customizing the table element in embed site” has been fixed.
- #8892– The issue with “Grid linking if we perform sorting on virtual scroll enabled case” has been fixed.
- #4004– The issue with “Grid section style customization using the theme file” has been fixed.
- #8934– Fixed pivot grid exporting not working issue.
- #3935– Fixed the problem with height consistency in Combo box and Date Picker widget.
- # 10411 – Fixed the console errors when resizing the browser in design mode before layout rendered.
- #10867 – The bug fixed with range slider min and max values for fractional values.
- # 4932- The issue with “Filter pop-up rendering in Pivot, if the data contains special characters” has been fixed.
- #3686–The issue with “Conditional formatting for Map widget” has been fixed.
- #4971 – The issue with “Scrolling in Mac OS” has been fixed.
- # 3780– The problem with “Maximizing in card” has been fixed.
- # 5020– The issue with “Color palette state maintenance in the chart” has been fixed.
- # 8671- Fixed console errors when hovering over the grid header that contains special characters.
- # 4940- Fixed alignment issue in Combo Box widget, if we place widget in two rows.
- # 3672- Fixed the UI glitch issues in Pivot when enabling the Text Wrap/Column Resize/Fit to Content.
- Compressed the size of the image used in the dashboard widgets for the overall dashboard’s performance improvement.
- Removed the duplicate data sent from service to client on initial loading of the dashboard, to enhance performance.
- Provided search support for categories drop-down in publish dialog box.
- Provided the option to enable the Export PDF/Image option in the dashboard properties panel.
- Fixed the comment option issue for widget.
- The issue with “The widget description pop-up not being positioned well on mobile view” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Drill-down chart rendering issue in schedule export” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Save view icon alignment issue in the multi-tab dashboard” has been fixed.
- The issue with “NOTIN condition not working issue in URL parameter” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Multiple label parameters not working issue in RTE control” has been fixed.
- Fixed the SSAS connected data does not allow for advanced settings formatting.
- The issue with “The console error while editing the data alert pop-up” has been fixed.
- The issue with “The condition gets reset when reopening the data alert window” .
- Removed the filter widgets from the widget list drop-down in the data alert window.
- The issue with “Data is getting duplicated when searching on allow filter dialog box” has been fixed.
- Fixed the unwanted alert showing issue while switching to code view, if we do not have any changes in it.
- The issue with “ filter widget description icon alignment” has been fixed.
- The issue with “The Maximized widget collapsed while resizing it to full screen” has been fixed.
- The issue with “Widget description pop-up is not positioned well on pinboard embedding” has been fixed.
- Fixed the issue “Error occurs on “view underlying data“ if two date columns have the same date”.
- ‘Assign Data’ tab retains focus when moving to another widget instance of ‘properties’ tab.
Data Sources
- Provided support for filtering data based on Top N records in the SSAS data source.
- Removed the unwanted DB client connections for the PostgreSQL and MSSQL connections.
- Provided support for data sources that includes Hebrew and other languages in the table schema.
- Now, you can connect to extract data sources that have longer column names.
- Now, you can connect to late binding views in the Amazon Redshift connector.
- Supported SSH for MongoDB data source.
- Improved user interface for the following existing data sources
- Fresh works CRM
- Copper
- Chargebee
Server
- Provided the support to validate external site while adding.
- Now, you see site URL in the tooltip for sites drop-down in the publishing dashboard dialog.
- Provided the support to publish the dashboards with same dashboard and data source name.
- Provided the support to make the dashboard public while publishing and adding deployment dashboard.
- An added info dialog box for data source, slideshow, schedule, and exposed the item id.
- Improved the performance of the multi-tab dashboard by rendering without iframe.
- Provided support for logging out of Third-Party Providers while logging out of Bold BI.
Breaking Changes
- Removed the clone option from the dashboard listing. Now, you can use the copy dashboard option instead of the clone dashboard.
- The default vertical alignment of Card Widget has been changed to Middle.
Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a
corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.