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Altair® Panopticon™

 

Features Added in Version 2021.0

 

  • Web Authoring/UX

    • Listing of workbook detected issues.

    • Source of the error displayed when the aggregate is calculated and the Reference Lines variable column is not calculated.

    • Ability to set another thumbnail image for workbooks.

    • Ability to modify root folder permissions, such as to disable public read or write access.

    • Translated calculated column function description.

    • Support for mapping between Color and Shape variables in the Shape legend.

    • Ability for Designer users to create data extracts.

    • Sorting improvement for the preview table.

    • Back button respects the browser history to navigate back.

    • Support to save in the Workbook View Mode for Designer users.

    • Last edited data table on the Data Table Edit View is displayed when going back to the Open Workbook Edit View.

    • Support for using double quotes when inserting columns in time series methods.

    • Default aggregation/format not saved by variables unless changed by the user.

    • New workbook data table report in the Data Table Edit View (Debug pane).

    • Support for Upload File (snapshot) or Link to File load type options.

    • Join key specification not required for Union.

     

  • Server Improvements

    • Ability to monitor and review workbook and dashboard usage.

    • Ability to monitor and review the logged in users and the frequency.

    • Improved threading of data loading, broadcasting, and scheduling on the server.

    • Ability to display the data preview of a data extract from a connector.

    • New server threading performance metrics and publishers.

    • New “subscription.log.slow.data.loads.seconds” property that logs if a subscription has been loading data for more than X seconds at the WARNING level.

    • New “authentication.header.validate.token” property that will validate the token if set to true. Otherwise, it will authenticate every request based on headers.

    • New “repository.migrate.data.extracts.path” property to migrate data extracts into the repository on start up.

    • Support for workbook history to be displayed in UTC.

    • Informative error message when the Tomcat application configuration file (.xml) is not available.

    • Support for tracking the Logged In Users list when the server is using the HEADER authentication.

 

  • Data Connectivity

    • New AWS Kinesis connector.

    • Support for Oracle Binary Double data type.

    • Ability to skip rows from the top in the MS Excel connector.

    • Ability to open an MS Excel file from a URL.

    • Generated query displayed in the JDBC Database connector do not have applied parameters.

    • Ability to load an SVG file from a URL and Text entry.

    • Ability to select the timezone of the data source for Date/Time columns.

    • Support for Text connectors to read UTF-8 encoded with BOM files.

    • Support to hide internal topics for the Apache Kafka connector.

    • Ability to set the timeout period in the InfluxDB connector.

    • Support for column generation/specification in the Elasticsearch connectors.

    • Availability of the Save and Load schema buttons in the MongoDB connector.

    • Support for SMALLINT and TINYINT data types in the Apache Cassandra connector.

 

  • Streams Server

    • New application component startup mechanism.

    • New R Transform operator.

    • Indication that the underlying Kafka is disconnected.

    • OAuth support in the REST Output connector and REST Transform operator.

 

  • Visualization

    • Ability to select the Scatter Plot’s background image from a URL with support for parameters.

    • Availability of “Set Snapshot Here” option for timeseries visualizations when Row and/or Column variable is used.

    • Support for Word Wrap for records variable in the Table visualization.

    • Support for IRIG Date/Time format.

    • New Alpha and Shape variables in the Map Plot visualization.

    • Support for usage of custom shapes in the Map Plot visualization.

    • Ability for users with a Viewer role to manually control numeric axis setting.

    • Support for usage of custom shapes in the Scatter Plot visualization.

    • Ability to display the graph coordinates for line plots (e.g., X-Y plots, Data/Time-Y plots) on mouse over.

    • Support for Alpha setting for Numeric Line Graph and Numeric Needle Graph visualizations.

    • Ability to shade area below the line in the Numeric Line Graph visualization.

    • Ability to always include the zero value in visualizations with numeric axis.

    • Ability to set the tick format for time axis variables.

    • Support to assign icons to columns in a Table visualization.

    • Ability add shape palettes to the Shape variable.

    • New Alphabet palette with Arial font added to the default Light and Dark themes.

    • Ability to simultaneously add multiple SVG files to a shape palette.

    • Ability to download and upload shape palettes.

    • Support for dynamic sizing of breakdown columns width in the Table visualization.

 

  • Reporting

    • Abort scheduled Email PDF when the data table load fails.

     

  • Analytics

    • Support for selected items and focused item details pop-up.

    • Support to create custom bookmarks (relative date specification).

    • Ability to define a custom sort order of dimension or text columns.

 

  • Data Framework

    • New Weighted Standard Deviation aggregation method.

    • New Weighted Variance and Population Variance aggregation methods.

    • Ability to define custom labels in the Equal Density and Equal Distance numeric bucketing.

    • Support for data type casting on columns in the Data Table Edit View in Web Authoring.

    • Support for blank space trimming for Text Grouping column values.

    • New special server parameter _current_time_utc.

    • Support to populate measure values in the Pivot Transform.

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  • REST API

    • Get login history of one or all users.

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In addition, deprecation of the following:

  • Server temp cache.

  • Support for workbooks with cached data sources.

  • Local Kafka connectivity in the Panopticon Streams Server.

  • Removed the following properties in the Panopticon.properties file:

    • rest.enabled

    • authentication.token.refreshable.scope

    • cache.purge.rate

    • .cache.service.getresourcedworkbook.queue.size

    • cache.service.getunmaskedresourcedworkbook.queue.size

    • cache.service.getdata.queue.size

    • cache.service.getondemanddata.queue.size

    • cache.service.getformatteddata.queue.size

    • cache.service.getdatatabledata.queue.size

    • cache.schedule.clear.rate

    • cache.data.plugin.connection.aggregate.size

    • cache.data.plugin.connection.raw.size

    • cache.datasource.size

    • cache.temporary.enabled

    • cache.diskwrite.enabled