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Bold BI Release History - 5.2

5.2.59

Cloud Analytics Server

Released on Oct 21, 2022

New Features

Server

Provided support to export the dashboard by applying a user-based filter in REST API.

Data Sources

Enabled AWS OpenSearch for version 1.0.

Bug Fixes

Designer

Fixed missing alert message for deleted data source when opening the dashboard in view mode.
Fixed issue changes are not reflected in the dashboard when the data source is edited and saved from the server.
Error handled for multi-instance object reference error.
Fixed alignment issue for banner menu popup in mobile view.
Fixed sub-menu item alignment issue.
Fixed designer theme issues:
- Alert text color is not proper.
- Secondary button background color when in active state.
Fixed widget loading issue when data is not configured in view mode.
Fixed binding dashboard parameter issue in a combo box.
Fixed searching issue in the manual dashboard parameter.

Widgets

#400414 – Fixed Bing map zooming issue.
#380103 – Fixed Grid with Combine widget issue exporting issue.
#400355 – Fixed Grid summary row measure formatting issue.
Fixed Number Card font color and background issue in Dark Mode.

Data source

#407662 – Fixed no data displaying in query designer page while connecting to excel.
#410245 – fixed the preview data has no records after a successful connection to the Azure Blob.
Fixed alignment issue in type conversion dropdown.
Fixed max rows count issue in excel export for an elastic search data source.
Fixed data retrieval error while showing view data for chart widgets.
Fixed issues in all modules for open search.

Server

Fixed date time parsing error when the date format is set as DD/MM/YYYY for the site configured with a custom domain.

Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.

5.2.53

Cloud Analytics Server

Released on Sep 01, 2022

Bug Fixes

Designer

Fixed following designer theme-related issues.
- Alert text color is not proper.
- Secondary button background color when in active state.
Fixed widget loading issue for data not configured case in view mode.
Fixed binding dashboard parameter issue in a combo box.
Fixed searching issue in manual dashboard parameter.

Widgets

#380103 – Fixed Grid with Combine widget issue exporting issue.
#400355 – Fixed Grid summary row measure formatting issue.
Fixed Number Card font color and background issue in Dark Mode.

Data Sources

Fixed data retrieval error while showing view data for chart widgets.

Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.

5.2.52

Cloud Analytics Server

Released on Aug 19, 2022

Bug Fixes

Designer

Fixed the following bugs or improvements in the theming feature:
- The icon color in a dark theme for the Web API live data source connection.
- The loading indicator background color issue in dark mode.
- The alignment issue for viewing the underlying data loading indicator message.
- The gauge label color is not updated based on the theme.
- The date picker range selection background color.
- The dialog border issue for dark and light mode.
- The RTE widget UI Glitches for a dark theme.
- The view schema text color for the extract type data source for a dark theme.
- The Bing map title color issue in the widget before binding the data.
- The relative date option popup label in the datepicker for a dark theme.
#398286 – Fixed the issue in linking for the image widget.

Data Sources

Fixed the path not found issue in the googlebigquery service authentication, which was faced randomly.
Fixed an issue in connecting the Oauth datasource when more than 5 Pods are running on the site.

Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.

5.2.50

Cloud Analytics Server

Released on Aug 10, 2022

New Features

Server

Support for setting up CORS headers on the settings page.
Support to deliver data alerts and standard dashboard export to Webhook.
Provided the theming support to change the application theme to dark or light.
Provided the support to customize the application colour to represent your branding.
The REST API to update the CORS setting.
The REST API to check the pinboard name exists.
The REST API to update AzureAD settings.
The REST API to update AzureAD Schedule Synchronization settings.

Designer

Data Caching support.
Provided the support to customize the designer theming.

Widgets

Enables the POP filtering for Grid and KPI card.

Data Source

Added Click House data source.
Support to Service account authentication for Google BigQuery.
Support to view raw data in Grid widget.
Create dashboards with Bold Desk data source.
Support to create Live web data sources using REST API.

Embedding

Option to programmatically publish as an option through API.
Option to customize the existing widget item panel.
Added API to show/hide the Data source configuration in a designer.
Added API to show/hide all the columns by default in view underlying data.
Added API to show/hide the Preview as an option in a designer.
Option to customize the toolbar buttons in a designer.

Improvements

Server

#375591: Support to customize author name visibility, sorting order, and multi-tab label on dashboard listing page
Support to add URL filter parameter while calling dashboard export REST API.

Widgets

Provided the support to adjust widget container padding.
Added the support to apply Chart filtering from axis labels.
Provided an option to modify the Pie and Doughnut chart radius.
Provided an option to modify the Line and Spline chart’s line width.
Provided an option to enable a fixed layout for the KPI card.
Provided an option to perform responsive margin in the KPI card.
Provided the support to enable Map zooming into marker plotted region.
Provided the support to enable value tooltip for 100% Stacked charts
Provided option to enable fixed rows and columns for proportional charts.
Image widget tooltip option has been enabled.
The description tooltip support provided to Rangenavigator’s assign data section.

Data Source

Performance improvements of SQL Data source extract mode initial creation.
Support to Distinct aggregation expression for Sum and Avg.
Support to Join the tables based on the expression column.
#381739: Support to Snowflake Date Tim display based on client time zone.
#370607: Support for Elastic Search Version 6.8.
#381555: Allow editing connection without changing schema in SQL data sources.
#374555: Datatype is not maintained in the table.
Improved performance of Live web data sources in dashboard design mode.

Designer

Dashboard Parameter support in SSAS data source.
Inter linking support in Tab widgets.
Performance improvements in Dashboard rendering.
Support to render the dashboard without setting the item detail during initialization from embedding.
Support to customize the custom widget container size in the mobile mode.

Embedding

Option to get the embed code for the Data source designer from the Data source listing page.
Option to customize the header in ajax call.
Option to update widget filters (text field only) while rendering dashboard.
Option to customize the theming in embedded dashboard.

Bug Fixes

Server

#364580: Fixed issue in Azure AD user synchronization.
#370364: Fixed issue in the user-based filter by converting Emails to lower case.
#369839: Fixed internal server errors when accessing multi-tab dashboards in the same page preview.
#376081: Fixed the duplicate left panel issue when editing the dashboard in the same page preview.
#381474: Fixed issue in using tab widgets in multi-tab dashboards.
#377748: Fixed random issue in daily dashboard export.

Data Source

#373346: Fixed date variable filter issue in SSAS data source.
#372923: Fixed data refresh issues in MySQL extract mode with PostgreSQL as Data Store.
#382704: Fixed filter issue in expression date column in PostgreSQL data source.
#375818: Fixed string to date conversion, which column contains empty string/null values in PostgreSQL data source.
#374623: Fixed Sequence contains no matching element issue in PostgreSQL data source.
#374623: Fixed task cancellation issue in Elastic Search data source.
#371032: Fixed edit data source issue in PostgreSQL data source.
#379943: Fixed edit connection issue while changing the server with the same schema in MySQL data source.
#375376: Fixed issue in casting the data types in Snowflake data source.
#381062: Fixed Top N Filtering bug in Google BigQuery data source.
#369997: Fixed Table Grid Search Function does not work issue in SSAS.
#379746: Fixed unable to connect pagination without total page and data integrator fields on web API data source.
#377855: Fixed Freshdesk Pagination not working.
#377240: Fixed JIRA custom Fields missing Issue.
#378921: Fixed Error while filtering through URL in Web API Live.
#392681: Fixed issue with data refresh with iterative dashboard parameters.
#393012: Fixed issue with data refresh.

Designer

Fixed the issue that the widget action context menu is not shown while maximizing the dashboard in embedding.
Fixed that widget menu popup rendered with default height when all the menu items were removed on customization.
Fixed the issue that custom widgets are not loaded while configuring preconfigured widgets API in designer embedding.
#375217: Fixed URL linking not working for multi-tab dashboard issue.
#377275, #378104: Fixed dynamic connection string not working after publishing the dashboard issue.
#375088: Fixed dashboard not published to another site with more than three tables.
#372164: Fixed Excel exporting is not considering the applied filter issue.
#369686: Fixed widget data discarded after updating the dashboard parameter value issue.
#373376: Fixed dashboard not published to another site with disabled tables issue.
#381474: Fixed tab widget alignment not proper in multi-tab dashboard issue.
#376901: Fixed comment option did not show in tabbed widget issue.
#376245: Fixed slave widgets do not filter based on the master widget values issue.
Fixed refreshing dashboard content issue in mobile view.

Breaking Changes

Removed the Vertica connector support from cloud BoldBI due to BoldBI data service migrated to kubernetes. The Vertica client library doesn’t support a Linux environment.
Migrated our Bold BI® data service cloud infrastructure from Azure app service into Kubernetes for better services. The outgoing IP addresses for our cloud environment will change due to this migration. Refer to the documentation and whitelist the IP’s If your databases or services are running behind a firewall. https://help.boldbi.com/cloud-bi/working-with-data-source/white-list-ip-address-bold-bi-cloud
Need to update the latest embed SDK file to work with embedding. https://cdn.boldbi.com/embedded-sdk/latest/boldbi-embed.js or https://cdn.boldbi.com/embedded-sdk/v5.2.50/boldbi-embed.js
Made a change in the authentication process for Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Azure DevOps data sources. Due to this change, scheduled refreshes for these data sources may fail. Refreshes for these data sources will succeed after reauthorizing the account connected to them. Refer to the following link to reauthorize the connected account: https://help.boldbi.com/cloud-bi/working-with-data-source/working-with-connected-accounts/#reauthorize-the-connected-accounts.

Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.

5.2.48

WindowsLinuxDockerKubernetesAzure App Service

Released on July 18, 2022

New Features

Server

Support to MySQL as Data Store.
Support to setting up CORS headers on the settings page.
Support to deliver data alerts and standard dashboard export to Webhook.
Support to configure the known domain list to avoid SSRF attacks.
Support to upload and manage custom and predefined widgets on the settings page.
The REST API to update the CORS setting.
The REST API to check pinboard name exists.
The REST API to update Email settings.
The REST API to update AzureAD settings.
The REST API to update AzureAD Schedule Synchronization settings.
The REST API to manage account settings.

IDP & UMS

Support to lock accounts if a password is entered incorrectly five times or more.
Support customizing the password policies to match your organization’s IT policies.

Designer

Data Caching support.

Widgets

Grid summary row support.
Enabled the POP filtering for Grid and KPI card.

Data Source

Added ClickHouse data source.
Support to Service account authentication for Google BigQuery.
Support to view raw data in Grid widget.
Create dashboards with BoldDesk data source.
Support to create Live web data sources using REST API.

Embedding

Embed a Dashboard designer and Data source designer for external providers in iframe-based embedding.
Option to programmatically publish as an option through API.
Option to customize the existing widget item panel.
Added API to show/hide the Data source configuration in a designer.
Added API to show/hide all the columns by default in view underlaying data.
Added API to show/hide the Preview as an option in a designer.
Option to customize the toolbar buttons in a designer.

Improvements

Server

#375591: Support to customize author name visibility, sorting order, and multi-tab label on dashboard listing page.
Support to add URL filter parameter while calling dashboard export REST API.

IDP & UMS

Support to provide license key in k8s and docker via Environment Variables.

Widgets

Provided support to adjust widget container padding.
Added the support to apply Chart filtering from axis labels.
Provided option to modify the Pie and Doughnut chart radius.
Provided option to modify the Line and Spline chart’s line width.
Provided option to enable fixed layout for the KPI card.
Provided option to perform responsive margin in the KPI card.
Provided the support to enable Map zooming into marker plotted region.
Provided support to enable value tooltip for 100% Stacked charts.
Enabled RTE server font family support.
Provided option to enable fixed rows and columns for proportional charts.
Image widget tooltip option has been enabled.
The description tooltip support provided to Rangenavigator’s assign data section.

Data Source

4x performance improved in the SQL data source extract mode initial creation.
Support to Distinct aggregation expression for Sum and Avg.
Support to Join the tables based on expression column.
#381739: Support to Snowflake datetime display based on client time zone.
#370607: Support for Elastic Search Version 6.8.
#374555: Datatype is not maintained in the table.
10x performance improved in live web data sources in the dashboard design mode.

Designer

Dashboard Parameter support in SSAS data source.
Inter linking support in Tab widgets.
1.5x performance improved in the dashboard rendering.
Support to render the dashboard without setting the item detail during initialization from embedding.
Support to customize the custom widget container size in the mobile mode.

Embedding

Support to provide license key in k8s and docker via Environment Variables.
Option to customize the header in ajax call.
Option to update widget filters (text field only) while dashboard is rendering.

Bug Fixes

Server

#364580: Fixed issue in Azure AD user synchronization.
#370364: Fixed issue in user-based filter by converting Emails to lower case.
#369839: Fixed internal server errors when accessing multi-tab dashboards in the same page preview.
#376081: Fixed the duplicate left panel issue when editing the dashboard in the same page preview.
#381474: Fixed issue in using tab widgets in multi-tab dashboards.
#377748: Fixed random issue in daily dashboard export.

Data Source

#373346: Fixed date variable filter issue in SSAS data source.
#372923: Fixed data refresh issues in MySQL extract mode with PostgreSQL as Data Store.
#382704: Fixed filter issue in expression date column in PostgreSQL data source.
#375818: Fixed string to date conversion, which column contains empty string/null values in PostgreSQL data source.
#374623: Fixed Sequence contains no matching element issue in PostgreSQL data source.
#374623: Fixed task cancellation issue in Elastic Search data source.
#371032: Fixed edit data source issue in PostgreSQL data source.
#379943: Fixed edit connection issue while changing the server with the same schema in MySQL data source.
#375376: Fixed issue in casting the data types in Snowflake data source.
#381062: Fixed Top N Filtering bug in Google BigQuery data source.
#369997: Fixed Table Grid Search Function does not work issue in SSAS.
#379746: Fixed unable to connect pagination without total page and data integrator fields on web API data source.
#377855: Fixed Freshdesk Pagination not working.
#377449 & T377175: Fixed Lookup table creation issue if Bold BI configured with MYSQL.
#377240: Fixed JIRA custom Fields missing Issue.
#378921: Fixed Error while filtering through URL in Web API Live.

Designer

Fixed the issue that the widget action context menu is not shown while maximizing the dashboard in embedding.
Fixed that widget menu popup rendered with default height when all the menu items were removed on customization.
Fixed the issue that custom widgets are not loaded while configuring preconfigured widgets API in designer embedding.
#375217: Fixed URL linking not working for multi-tab dashboard issue.
#377275, #378104: Fixed dynamic connection string not working after publishing the dashboard issue.
#375088: Fixed dashboard not published to another site with more than three tables.
#372164: Fixed Excel exporting is not considering the applied filter issue.
#369686: Fixed widget data discarded after updating the dashboard parameter value issue.
#373376: Fixed dashboard not published to another site with disabled tables issue.
#381474: Fixed tab widget alignment not proper in multi-tab dashboard issue.
#376901: Fixed comment option did not show in tabbed widget issue.
#376245: Fixed slave widgets do not filter based on master widget values issue.
Fixed refreshing dashboard content issue in mobile view.

Breaking Changes

Widgets

The custom widget folder placement and file format has been changed. We provided a utility to migrate custom widgets created in the lower version, as we have made changes in publishing the custom widgets.

Note : The bug or feature items that do not have a corresponding ID associated with them are internally identified.