2016 Feature Releases
December 2016
Charts
- Axis label formatting
- Add ability to hide tooltips to Map and Bubble Map charts
- Minor data validation bugfixes
- Column setting: customize column width in table charts
Dashboard variables
- Add date support to dropdown variables
November 2016
Charts
- Added Copy button to Query History modal
- Ensure unixtime values are cast properly in Interactive Mode filters
- Update chart size when changing chart type (for unsaved charts)
Dashboards
- Allow sending reports to non-Chartio users
- Landing page: add dashboard menu to dashboard grid view
Data Pipeline
- Case statement pipeline step: allow passing column value
Data sources
- Usage stats: view the Usage tab in your data source’s settings to see stats about query duration, errors, etc.
- BigQuery: add setting to choose either Legacy SQL or Standard SQL
- Add VoltDB as a data source
October 2016
Charts
- Query History: view previous versions of saved SQL Mode queries
- Show live preview when creating text elements
- Resolve heat map rendering issue with null values
- Preview Table Data: quickly preview the first 100 rows of a table in your database.
Dashboards
- Per-dashboard Time Zone support
- New shortcut: click dashboard title to clear filters
- Add “reason” text field to Request Dashboard Access form
- Allow dashboards to use local time for time zone
- Simplified add dashboard form
Dashboard variables
- Time zone support for relative date variables
- Add ability to use dashboard variables in chart titles
- Allow multi-select text inputs to default to “all values”
Data sources
- BigQuery Standard SQL support
- Upgrade Google Analytics support to Reporting API V4
- Data source list: filter by data source type
- Remove unused tables/columns from schema
- Enable Direct Connections for Presto
Organization
- Increased account protection: require captcha for >5 failed login attempts, implement password complexity requirements
- Allow dashboard admins to access dashboard embed configuration
September 2016
Charts
- Allow more space for heat map labels
- Edit Variables in Data Explorer: show current value instead of default value
- SQL Mode: Show/highlight line number for error messages
Data Sources
- Optimizations to custom column validation
August 2016
Charts
- Auto-complete in SQL Mode (Control + Space)
- Show total for stacked bars in Bar Line chart
- Fix minor chart rendering issues
- Ability to edit dashboard variable values in the Data Explorer
- Retain filter values when switching between filter types in Data Explorer
- SQL Mode: add help text for keyboard shortcuts
Dashboards
- Alert when report exceeds email size limits
- Add keyboard shortcut: Shift + click to select individual charts
Data Pipeline
- Allow dashboard variables in Case Statement Pipeline step
Data Sources
- Add support for BigQuery shared datasets
- Alert when data source has no foreign keys set up
- Improvements to data source connection form
- Resolve connection issue with Google BigQuery
Organization
- Add datetimes to notification center
- Prevent multiple form submissions during checkout process
- Fixes for checkout process for expired trials
- Resolve authentication issues with OneLogin
July 2016
Charts
- Data Explorer improvements
- Expanded SQL Mode: larger querying window, included schema view
- Improved Pipeline Visuals: see all steps from all layers at a glance, view input and output data in each step
- Chart Preview updates: easy access to chart title, renaming and rearranging columns, auto-selection of best-fitting chart type
- Trend lines for Single Value charts
- Improved hover state for drilldown charts
Data sources
- Updated query log export
- Debug page improvements
- Fix schema visualizer controls
Embedding
- Enable anchor links for embedded charts
Organization
- Ability to clone themes
June 2016
Charts
- Allow 5th Bubble Map column to group by color
- Fix positioning issues when bulk cloning charts
Dashboards
- Hide chart hover behavior in presentation mode
Data sources
- Improvements to CSV update process
Organization
- Dashboard Viewers can view Snapshots
May 2016
Dashboards
- Improvements to chart arrangement
- arrange charts without toggling a separate mode
- new alignment grid
- adjustments to chart margins and spacing to ensure uniformity
- Updated Chartio Default theme
- New Theme settings
- set variable background color, chart background color
Data Sources
- Add SSL option for Google Cloud SQL
- Add Distinct Count (Approx.) aggregation for Elasticsearch
Organization
- Simplified top navigation
- New landing page for dashboard management
- visual grid or list view
- improved search, sort, and filtering capabilities
- Setup guide (Help > Setup) to assist new users
Clicking the Dashboard Settings button in the sidebar will open the settings in a drawer, allowing for quick and easy access.
April 2016
Charts
- Show percent change for Single Value Indicator chart
Dashboards
- Quick access to dashboard settings
- Nested dashboard categories
- Optional “Apply dashboard filters” button
Dashboard variables
- Allow text input to accept multiple values
- Variable editing/management moved to dashboard settings tab
Data Pipeline
- Add week unit to datediff pipeline function
Data sources
- Enable Time Zone setting for PostgreSQL timestamp columns
- For new data sources, add notification when no foreign keys are detected
Organization
- Owners: auto-grant access when navigating to a dashboard or data source you do not have access to
March 2016
Charts
- Enable OR filtering in Interactive Mode
- Add Day of Month and Day of Year Time Buckets to Interactive Mode
Dashboard variables
- New dashboard filter: Range Input
Data Pipeline
- New pipeline step: Case Statement
Data sources
- Add “Approx count distinct” aggregation for Redshift
- Time zone support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, CSVs, Data Stores, Twilio
- Define join type per foreign key in schema
- Add support for SQL Server 2014
- Apply Time Zone setting automatically in SQL Mode for PostgreSQL and MySQL
Organization
Click “Auto” and Chartio will suggest a Chart Type to use
February 2016
Charts
- Performance improvements to SQL parser
- Add “Auto” chart type (suggests a chart type based on your chart data)
Dashboard variables
- New relative date variables that can be used in queries, the Data Pipeline, and in filters.
- Addition, subtraction, and bucket functions to customize relative date variables
- Support hidden variables in url text elements
- Allow filtering by NULL in dropdown variables
- Allow single date in hidden variable and calendar filter
- Add CURRENT_QUARTER date variable
January 2016
Charts
- Add map of Australia and New Zealand for Maps and Bubble Maps
- Chart setting to customize decimal precision in tooltip
- Add 12-hour time format for table charts
Dashboards
- Add keyboard shortcut to select all charts in Arrange Mode (Command+A/Control+A)
Dashboard Variables
- Automatically detect data type for Dropdown
- Minor syntax changes for dashboard variables in SQL Mode
Data Pipeline
- Add Ratio of total Pipeline formula
Data sources
Organization
