Altair® Panopticon

 

Features Added in Version 2020.1.0

 

  • Web Authoring

    • Web UI for the Apache Cassandra connector

    • Web UI for the Livy Spark connector

    • Web UI for the Splunk connector

    • Web UI for JDBC Database – Streaming connector

    • Web UI for StreamBase 7.1 connector

    • Web UI for StreamBase LiveView connector

    • Ability to import or merge workbooks.

    • Ability to reorder data table parameters.

    • Ability to create, modify, duplicate, or remove color palettes in themes.

    • Ability to create or duplicate themes.

    • Support of filtered display of actions based on dashboard and/or data table.

    • New Automatic Shapes option in the Shapes variable.

    • Allow reordering of icon variables.

 

  • Panopticon Streams

    • New properties for the Kerberos integration in the Kx kdb+ connector.

    • Web UI for the Livy Spark connector

    • Web UI for JDBC Database – Streaming connector

    • Web UI for StreamBase 7.1 connector

    • Web UI for StreamBase LiveView connector

    • Support for Python transform serialization using Apache Arrow.

 

  • Data Connectivity

    • Kdb+tick connector to allow full subscription syntax for service type subscriptions.

    • yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssK replaced with yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX

    • Support for Record Path field in Message Queue Type connectors.

    • Kerberos integration for Kx kdb+ connectors.

    • Upgraded c.java to the latest version for the Kx kdb+ and Kx kdb+tick connectors.

    • Kx kdb+ connection pooling in connector.

     

  • Designer Improvements

    • Updated CefSharp version to 81.3.100.0 for iframe part and EmbedWebClient example.

     

  • Analytics

    • Support for month names as a new type of time bucket.

    • Support for sorting variables other the Size in text color variables when set to automatic mapping.

    • Ability to view and clear filters applied to visualizations and dashboards.

    • Support for specifying dashboard parameters as value sources in actions.

    • Update range in the Color variable when using Divide By.

    • Timeseries legend support to the Stack Graph visualization.

 

  • Server Improvements

    • New IdP signature validation properties for the SAML authentication.

    • UI improvements on the Workbooks tab.

    • New Oauth 2.0 login and logout redirect properties.

    • New property that takes regex used to extract the roles from the OAuth 2.0 server identity response.

    • Ability to view all logged in users to the server and log them out.

    • New special server parameters (_dashboard_name, _datatable_name, _datatable_title, _workbook_folder, _workbook_name) and renamed system parameters (_user_name, _user_id,_current_time, _last_wrorkday, _week_start, _quarter_start)

    • New properties for the Kerberos integration in the Kx kdb+ connector.

    • Standard content import hook and introduction of new property repository.startup.import.paths.

    • Faster building of dashboard parts when using the HWU licensing server.

    • Dynamic delivery/generation of configuration files for the different web applications which are saved in the JavaScriptConfiguration folder of Panopticon’s AppData directory.

    • Row stats (min/max/avg) and time slices (min/max/avg) are added into the /rest/statistic/datasource/flattened which include:

    1. <AverageRowCount>1750</AverageRowCount>

  1. <MinimumRowCount>1750</MinimumRowCount>

  2. <MaximumRowCount>1750</MaximumRowCount>

  3. <AverageTimeSlices>0</AverageTimeSlices>

  4. <MinimumTimeSlices>0</MinimumTimeSlices>

    1. <MaximumTimeSlices>0</MaximumTimeSlices
    • Data table templates without schema are blocked from being published.

 

  • Data Framework

    • New Percent of Parent aggregation method.

    • New None aggregation method in the Pivot transform.

    • Support for multiple key joins.

    • New REGEX_EXTRACT function.

    • New NOW function.

    • New property that takes regex used to extract the roles from the OAuth 2.0 server identity response.

    • Soft drill turned on for all aggregates that refer to nodes above the node like the parent or root and siblings of the node.

 

  • Visualization

    • Default visualization font is set to Arial 12.

 

  • Web UX

    • Changed client behavior to not automatically reconnect.

 

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In addition, deprecation of the following:

  • Splunk connector in the Designer (Desktop)

  • dom4j dependency

  • The following properties in the Panopticon.properties file:

    • global.authentication.button.hidden

    • client.webgl.enabled

    • client.data.load.transport

    • client.pdf.multiplepages.enabled