Altair® Panopticon

 

Features Added in Version 2020.2.0

 

  • Web Authoring

    • Data table editor refactoring.

    • Ability to add user-defined columns (Ranking, Time Bucket, Numeric Bucket, Text Grouping).

    • Ability to rearrange data sources in the data table editor.

    • Ability to set numeric and Date/Time columns format strings in the data table editor.

    • Web UI for Kafka Publisher connector.

    • Support for localization including non-Latin alphabet languages.

    • Ability to modify default color palette.

    • Dashboard description displays in the tooltip of a Dashboard tab title.

    • Support to modify By Sign (Positive or Negative) colors in Workbook Theme.

    • Default aggregation for the Latitude and Longitude variables are now:

      • Mean for numeric columns

      • Calculation for calculated columns

      • External if data table contains external aggregates for the column

    • The empty Alpha variable has a minimum of 0 to maximum of 1 value and a step of 0.01. For non-empty Alpha variables, the minimum and maximum alpha have a step of 0.01.

 

  • Streams Server

    • Hierarchical storage of applications and data sources, with permissions.

    • New folder access restrictions to control READ, WRITE, and MODIFY level permissions to applications for arbitrary users or groups.

    • Migration of application and data sources to modern repository.

    • Support for the DESIGNER user role.

    • 2 units draw for ADMINISTRATOR role and 21 units draw for the DESIGNER role in Altair Units licensing.

    • Ability to configure partitioning of topics.

    • Ability to set the key fields for the external input.

    • Manual changes in the schema of an external input operator displays the correct values.

    • Support for Text output to be saved in .csv format.

    • Correct order of columns of the .tsv output file.

    • Better treatment of missing Kafka.properties.

 

  • Server Improvements

    • Modern libraries for client-server communication (replaced Atmosphere with Stomp/SockJS).

    • Allow automatic log out of users based on inactivity timeout.

    • Ability to monitor table sizes (rows, columns, time slices) for real-time subscriptions.

    • Ability to delete folder name with double-byte characters.

    • Support for logout functionality with header authentication.

    • Support for Hosted Altair Units licensing.

    • Support for escape sequences in the Panopticon.properties file.

    • Update text aggregates default behavior to use all rows to determine unique values.

    • Subscriptions created by ad hoc services listed separately.

    • Setting the transportation protocol (WEBSOCKET or LONG_POLLING) for loading data from the web client is now being set in the workbook.json and admin.json files. It was previously being set in client.data.load.transport in the Panopticon.properties file.

    • Ability to specify the Output Files Names property for scheduler tasks.

    • Update Swagger-UI to v. 3.26.1

 

  • Data Connectivity

    • New ksqlDB static connector.

    • New ksqlDB streaming connector.

    • New Authentication DB property in the MongoDB connector to specify the database where the user is created.

    • Support for Load or Save Column Definitions in Text/Message Queue connectors in Web client.

     

  • Visualization

    • Ability to zoom into all visualizations.

    • Support for time series Line and Needle graphs in the Table visualization.

    • Ability to specify the Base value for Logarithmic scale in the Axes setting.

    • Support copying data from a single cell in the Table visualization.

    • Ability to set the Y-axis alignment settings in the Line Graph visualization when Show Last Value is enabled.

    • Vertical alignment of text columns in the Record Graph visualization.

 

  • Web UX

    • Ability to manually set Skip First n Rows value in the Text connector.

    • Support for the Back button respecting the workbook folder.

    • Support for horizontal center alignment in the Text Label control.

    • Internalization and localization for Asian languages.

 

  • Analytics

    • Ability to change the default aggregation of numeric columns in the data table.

    • Support for wildcard filtering (Substring or Prefix) for Free Text filter mode.

 

  • Documentation

    • Example workbooks overhaul.

 

 

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In addition, deprecation of the following:

  • Breakdown Items section in the Bullet Graph visualization in Web Authoring

  • Visible Range options in the Circle Pack and Treemap visualizations in the Web Authoring

  • kdb+ Discovery and kdb+tick Discovery connectors