Product Release Notes

5.2

August 21st, 2020

Platform

New Features:

  1. Logger added in all the remaining bundles.
  2. The AD SSO login has been provided to save the sign-in efforts of the AD group users.
  3. Supports the ‘AWS Cognito’ authentication for signing-in to the Platform.
  4. Report Bursting: Supports PDF report for dashboard and business story now.
  5. Admin: The ‘STARTTLS’ encryption type has been added in the Email Server Settings module.
  6. Data Center: Dynamic filter provided for the Salesforce Data Sets.

Enhancements:

  1. Active Directory: The User Synchronization section has been enhanced.
  2. UI enhancements in the User Management module to filter the various user types.

Please Note: The Data Sheet feature is a Beta release.

Business Story

New Features:

  1. Provided the ‘None’ option in the data label field properties of charts.
  2. Added slicer property in a few charts.

Enhancements:

  1. Backend- Updated IDs for the export button which will be utilized to burst report for Story.
  2. Data Grid:
    1. The label name is made as static.
    2. The Data Grid chart won’t reflect the change of theme.

Data Preparation

New Features:

  1. New Transforms:
    1. Data Hashing
    2. Data Masking
    3. Data Variance
  2. The ‘Undelete’ option is available to undelete the applied Steps.

Data Pipeline

New Features:

  1. Ingestion: Introducing the Eventhub Subscriber component to directly subscribe to the Azure Event Hub for ingesting data in a data pipeline.
  2. Failover Event: An event can be mapped to the respective component and in case of failure the data (if there is any data) gets sent to the failover component’s topic to avoid the data loss condition for a pipeline.
  3. Metadata payload for Azure Reader and RDBMS Reader: Payload can be taken from previous event and metadata of the component.
  4. Scheduler can send single record payloads to the next event.

Enhancements:

  1. UI enhancement in the Azure components for file path and file format.

Dashboard Designer

Charting:

Enhancements:

  1. Data label background property is available for Pie, Bar, Timeline, Group Bar, Group Column charts.
  2. Pie Chart: An option is available to hide the percentage from the tooltip.
  3. Implemented the SVG map for South Africa.
  4. Leaflet – Trip type can be added now.

Designer

New Features:

  1. An option to enable the report bursting functionality added in the dashboard Properties panel.

Enhancements:

  1. Provided the Public Filter property in Combo, Hierarchical, and List filters to create global filters in the report burst.
  2. Export Component: A property for selecting export options and data service is available now.

Edge

The Edge plugin introduced in the Apps menu with the following features:

  1. Read streaming data from MQTT.
  2. Process the streaming data like add transformation and aggregation.
  3. Write the output to JDBC (MySQL, MSSQL) or Amazon S3.
  4. Deploy the edge in a specified location.

Please Note: The Edge is a Beta release.

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