2015 Feature Releases
December 2015
Charts
- Chart Annotations
- Dotted and dashed lines for line charts
Dashboards
Dashboard Snapshot viewer
- Dashboard Snapshots: saves a PDF of your dashboard daily, allowing you to view historical data
- Dashboard navigation improvements
- Show column formatting customizations in “view all rows” modal
Data Pipeline
- Add CONCAT to Group step
Data sources
- Granular schema reflection (choose which tables to update during a Schema reflection).
Organization
- SAML (Single sign-on) support
- Owner permission updates
November 2015
Data Explorer tour
Charts
- Table charts: set custom aggregations for Totals row
Dashboard variables
- New variable type: Date Bucket
Data sources
- Add “request access” option for data sources
Organization
- Data Explorer and Data source guided tours
- Includes Chartio Demo data source and Demo dashboard
- Accessible via Help > Tours
October 2015
Charts
- Setting to always display chart legend
- Add current quarter date filtering
- Explore Chart Data (allow dashboard viewers with data source access to view chart definitions)
- Allow 4th and 5th bubble chart columns to be used in drilldowns
- New chart type: Heat Map
Dashboards
- Add option to disable notifications for dashboard sharing
- Allow theming of dashboard controls
- Insert dashboard images in report emails
Data Pipeline
- Add SUM aggregation to Bucket Data step
- Add window functions to Edit Column step (moving average, running total)
- Allow dashboard variables to be used in the Filter and Edit Column pipeline steps
- Add date functions to Data Pipeline
Data sources
- Implement Redshift JDBC driver (performance improvements)
- CSV Update enhancements
Organization
- Allow organizations to enforce login type
September 2015
Charts
- Allow 5 columns in Bubble Plots
- Allow bulk cloning
- Show dashboard selector when cloning to easily clone to another dashboard
- Chart exports now use dashboard background color
- Ability to change font size of chart title
- Interactive Mode: add between filter for integers
- Bar and Bar Line charts: add setting to show values on bars
- Table chart: setting to hide columns
- Map and Bubble Map charts: add map of Africa
- Pie chart: for donut charts, add setting to display total in center
Dashboards
- Dashboard sharing
- Allow drilldowns to display in data modal
Dashboard variables
Data Pipeline
- Allow Reorder columns step to handle missing columns
- Add SUM aggregation to Bucket Data step
Data sources
- Improvements to CSV parser
- Show duration for Data Store tables
- Default aggregation setting for measures
Other
- Add search and filtering to dashboard and data source lists
August 2015
Charts
- Allow all y-axis settings on second y-axis
- Dimension and measure design enhancements, add sort indicator
- Combine Refresh Chart and Cancel Query buttons
- Add “View Chart Data” option in Chart context menu for non-table charts
Dashboards
- Add page numbers to PDFs
Data Pipeline
- Compare columns in the Filter pipeline step
- Additional aggregation options for the Bucket Data step
- Group pipeline step: adjust aggregation options based on column data type
Data sources
- Require extra confirmation step when deleting a data source
- Add support for DashDB and DB2 data source connections
- Add support for Vertica data source connections
- Don’t allow data source editors to edit the schema
- Allow Data Store tables to reference other Data Store tables
Other
- Team Management interface
July 2015
Charts
- Improve behavior for between and between and including date filters
- Add dot size setting for scatter plots
- Increase row limit for box plots
- Conditional formatting for table charts
- Filter on one date
- Allow setting custom color on text elements
- Add Union distinct merge type
- View executed SQL from Data Explorer
Dashboards
Data Pipeline
- New pipeline step: Edit column
- Allow dashboard variables in pipeline formulas
Data sources
- User-guided schema reflection
- Add support for SQL Server SSH tunnels
- Allow Data Store Admins to create and edit Stored Tables
June 2015
Charts
- Set text color on Single Value charts
- Move Generated Query tab to Interactive Mode (Preview SQL button)
- Number formatting settings for table charts
- Change default aggregation from average to sum
Dashboards
- New default theme
- Enable multiple reports per Dashboard
Dashboard variables
- Allow dashboard variables in reports
- Hidden Variables in Drilldowns
Data Pipeline
- New pipeline step: Extrapolate Data
- Add Pipeline steps to individual datasets prior to Merge step
- New pipeline step: Combine columns
Data sources
- Add support for restricting Query Mode access
Other
May 2015
Charts
- Allow layer renaming while chart is loading
- Y-axis override: fit to values if left blank
- Allow joining layers on multiple columns
- Per-column formatting in Chart Settings
Dashboards
- Add Chartio Status to Help dropdown
- Add “Last refreshed” data to Presentation Mode
- Optimize dashboard load times
Data Pipeline
- Ensure deleted columns are removed from Reorder Columns step
- Allow Include/Exclude for both all and any in Filter step
Data sources
- Allow users to manage their own SSH tunnel
Other
- Require reauthentication for sensitive pages
- Improve chart error caching behavior
April 2015
Charts
- Add modal for saving a chart to another Dashboard
- Ensure outdated error notifications are removed
- Case-insensitive NOT LIKE filter (for supported data sources)
- Add totals to stacked bar charts
- Resolve rendering issue for sorted Bubble Charts
- Added unstacked Area Charts
- Use chart title for download filename
Dashboards
- Ability to set link color in Dashboard Theme
- Add preset text styles to Dashboard Theme
- Improve workflow for adding Text Elements
- Fix date sorting bug in table modal for Firefox and Safari
- Bulk chart editing
- Dashboard Drilldowns
Dashboard variables
- Allow Date Slider to use closest available date
Data Pipeline
- Add ‘is one of’ and ‘matches regex’ to Filter step
Data sources
- Set Stored Table alias separately from Table SQL name
- Include Dashboard/Chart ID in Query Log for running queries
- Resolve CSV uploading issue in some Chrome browsers
- Convert replacement CSV columns from decimals to integers as needed
- Allow CSV uploader to accept querylog exports
Other
- Explore query builder
- Use local timezone for Activity
- Optimize load time of organization home page, Data Explorer, and Dashboards
March 2015
Charts
- Ability to hide legend
- Set font size for table charts
- Case-insensitive LIKE filter (for supported data sources)
- Allow multiple lines in bar-line chart
- Sample data format for chart types
- Add total to tooltip for applicable charts
Dashboard
- Improve performance for PDF reports
- Prevent horizontal scrollbar in Arrange Mode
- URL text element
- Ensure grid lines use theme color
Dashboard variables
- Key-value support for Categorical Dropdowns
- Improve search for Categorical Dropdowns
Data Pipeline
Data sources
- Allow CSV uploader to recognize scientific notation
- New feature: Data Stores
Organization
- Organize settings pages into tabs
February 2015
Charts
- Allow more than two measures with dual y-axis
- Add tick to chart labels
- New chart type: Box Plot
- New merge type: Left Join
Dashboard
- Improve chart resizing
- Foreign character support for PDF exports
- Ensure theme colors are applied to all text elements
Data Pipeline
- Support for additional math functions
- Allow Group step to aggregate without grouping
Data sources
- Ability to cancel all running queries
Organization
- Add Activity tab to settings pages
- Chart Embedding
Other
- Refactor Javascript to improve performance
- Fix caching issue for big int data types
January 2015
Charts
- Ensure UTC offset is applied in WHERE clause
- Added Cancel Query button to Data Explorer
Dashboard
- Allow clickable urls
- Fix Arrange Mode issue in Firefox
- Fix hover issue for chart tooltips
Dashboard variables
- Add Categorical Dropdown support for Google Analytics
- List variable type in variable modal
Data Pipeline
- Additional filtering options in Filter step
- Group Step: Added Count Distinct
