Features Added in Version 2020.2.0
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Web Authoring
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Data table editor refactoring.
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Ability to add user-defined columns (Ranking, Time Bucket, Numeric Bucket, Text Grouping).
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Ability to rearrange data sources in the data table editor.
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Ability to set numeric and Date/Time columns format strings in the data table editor.
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Web UI for Kafka Publisher connector.
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Support for localization including non-Latin alphabet languages.
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Ability to modify default color palette.
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Dashboard description displays in the tooltip of a Dashboard tab title.
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Support to modify By Sign (Positive or Negative) colors in Workbook Theme.
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Default aggregation for the Latitude and Longitude variables are now:
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Mean for numeric columns
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Calculation for calculated columns
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External if data table contains external aggregates for the column
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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.
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Streams Server
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Hierarchical storage of applications and data sources, with permissions.
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New folder access restrictions to control READ, WRITE, and MODIFY level permissions to applications for arbitrary users or groups.
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Migration of application and data sources to modern repository.
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Support for the DESIGNER user role.
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2 units draw for ADMINISTRATOR role and 21 units draw for the DESIGNER role in Altair Units licensing.
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Ability to configure partitioning of topics.
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Ability to set the key fields for the external input.
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Manual changes in the schema of an external input operator displays the correct values.
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Support for Text output to be saved in .csv format.
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Correct order of columns of the .tsv output file.
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Better treatment of missing Kafka.properties.
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Server Improvements
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Modern libraries for client-server communication (replaced Atmosphere with Stomp/SockJS).
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Allow automatic log out of users based on inactivity timeout.
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Ability to monitor table sizes (rows, columns, time slices) for real-time subscriptions.
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Ability to delete folder name with double-byte characters.
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Support for logout functionality with header authentication.
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Support for Hosted Altair Units licensing.
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Support for escape sequences in the Panopticon.properties file.
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Update text aggregates default behavior to use all rows to determine unique values.
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Subscriptions created by ad hoc services listed separately.
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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.
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Ability to specify the Output Files Names property for scheduler tasks.
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Update Swagger-UI to v. 3.26.1
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Data Connectivity
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New ksqlDB static connector.
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New ksqlDB streaming connector.
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New Authentication DB property in the MongoDB connector to specify the database where the user is created.
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Support for Load or Save Column Definitions in Text/Message Queue connectors in Web client.
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Visualization
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Ability to zoom into all visualizations.
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Support for time series Line and Needle graphs in the Table visualization.
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Ability to specify the Base value for Logarithmic scale in the Axes setting.
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Support copying data from a single cell in the Table visualization.
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Ability to set the Y-axis alignment settings in the Line Graph visualization when Show Last Value is enabled.
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Vertical alignment of text columns in the Record Graph visualization.
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Web UX
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Ability to manually set Skip First n Rows value in the Text connector.
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Support for the Back button respecting the workbook folder.
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Support for horizontal center alignment in the Text Label control.
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Internalization and localization for Asian languages.
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Analytics
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Ability to change the default aggregation of numeric columns in the data table.
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Support for wildcard filtering (Substring or Prefix) for Free Text filter mode.
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Documentation
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Example workbooks overhaul.
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In addition, deprecation of the following:
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Breakdown Items section in the Bullet Graph visualization in Web Authoring
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Visible Range options in the Circle Pack and Treemap visualizations in the Web Authoring
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kdb+ Discovery and kdb+tick Discovery connectors