7.9.0
This release solely affects our Activeboards. Read on to discover the new features and improvements we've made.
New features
Raw configuration is now available in widgets. It has been added as a new tab in the Properties panel.
A new panel named Network manager is available and displays all the information related to the activity of the Activeboard widgets.
A new widget type named Scatter plot.
A new widget type named MarkersMap.
Improvements
The code editor has been replaced with a new, improved version.
The query editor features some small tweaks and improvements.
The bottom panel now allows more than one data source tab to be opened at once.
The current link format has been improved to allow the user to set a widget value as part of a link instead of the full link.
In Table widgets, the cellClicked feature now supports timestamp type values.
In Table widgets, the format field has been changed. The default value has been replaced with the reset operation and new column type formatters have been added.
There is a new section in the visual panel of Line/Area/Column widgets called Fill gaps.
In the same widgets as above, new fields have been added to the "Max series" section.
The Line/Area/Column widgets also have a new toggle in the Visual panel named "Inverted", which reverses the X and Y axes.
The Pie/Donut widgets now have a new General section with "Limit slices" and "Sort legend" fields. They also have a new Legend section.
In the SimpleValue widget, the numbers section is not available when the widget value is not a number. Furthermore, the Decimal places field is only available when decimal places apply to the format selected in the Number format field.
User-selected values in Input/Select widgets now persist until the user selects another value or exits Devo.
A new option ”Change input type” has been added to allow the user to transform a Select into an Input and vice versa. Also, the "Edit" option has been renamed as "Properties".
Input query has been removed. As a consequence, the Custom Date Range and the ability to drag queries over an Input widget have also been removed.
Select widget (simple and multiple) now supports timestamp type values.
We've made some performance improvements. For example, editing one widget will only reload that widget instead of the whole Activeboard. In the session manager, previews are now a schema instead of a workspace image.
We've made improvements to the behavior of the widget loading spinner.
We've made some changes to the behavior of the cancel query button. All queries are now aborted and both real time and auto refresh are deactivated.
The error messages in widgets now distinguish between "no data source defined" and "no data available".
Other error messages have been changed to give clearer messages with more information.
The toolbar icons in Activeboards have been rearranged.
The toolbar menu entries have been rearranged and new entries added.
In the Activeboards manager, the filtered text is now highlighted for better identification.
In the Activeboards manager, the owner is now grey to better distinguish it from the name.
In the Activeboards manager, you can now create a new Activeboard with just one click.
We've improved the placement of new or cloned widgets.
You can now change the widget type by using drag and drop.
The widget icons have been rearranged and some new icons have been added.
The widget menu entries have been slightly changed and a new entry added.
The query is now visible in the view mode.
Improvement to the pagination in the Table widget.
In the Line/Area/Column widgets, there are improvements to the default type fields in the Visual panel.
In the HeatMap widget, the default value “-----” of the “Series (10 values)” field in the Visual panel has been replaced by the empty value marked with the placeholder “Select…”.
New limits have been added to the number of groups in the Voronoi widget. Field/values have also been renamed in the Visual panel.
Changes in the behavior of the labels to hide or show all series.
The button to reset the zoom in Line/Area/Column widgets has been relocated.
The XLSX and XML formats have been removed from the Export menu in Table widgets.
Cloned Activeboards and widgets now add the text "cloned" to their names.
The Input widget does not respond to the number pad ENTER key.
A blue border is now added to your favorite widget type.
The option to share an Activeboard is now available in view mode.
Bug fixes
A problem with Table widgets meant some operations restored the default order between columns.
A problem with Table widgets meant some operations restored the default horizontal scroll position.
The legend in the Pie widget was not always visible unless you enlarged or expanded it sufficiently.
A query with a Select/Input with a default value, would get "" as default value when switching between edit and view mode.
A query referring to an input not created in the Activeboard was not recalculated when the missing input was added.
There was an error in a time grouping query whose time period was specified by a Select/Input with a default value.
There was a problem with the SimpleValue widget not showing the broken URL link icon.
The SimpleValue widget wasn't properly applying decimal places when the format was a percentage.
In Line/Area/Columns widgets, the query column names in the Y Axis section always converted the first letter to capital letters.
A Table widget with a sparkline never rendered if the sparkline column names did not match.
The color selector in some widgets wasn't working as expected.
HeatMap widget would set the last zoom instead of the default.
Tooltips would be duplicated for the widget icons "Real time", "Custom Date Range" and "Widget not optimized”.
Toggle "VIEW/EDIT" mode in the toolbar would have no tooltip.
In a Table widget, the cell right-click menu appeared behind the editors.
The time picker wouldn't warn you when the date in the FROM field matched the one in the TO field.
Line/Area/Column widgets returned an error the first time they were shared with a role.
A query with an Input/Select with a default value in a “where” clause, returned “No data available” when the
Select/Input value was cleared.A query with an Input/Select with a default value in a “group by” clause, returned error when the Select/Input value was
cleared.