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Release Note

10.3

Released on 9/4/2024

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Enhancements

  • Content: Now it shows comments on published charts and analytics.

  • Content: Now you can enable/disable the Parameter for the URL Link.

  • Content: Now you can protect the URL Link by password.

  • Dashboard: Added a support for showing a description.

  • Parameter: Added an option to set NULL in date-picker and slider parameters to return all values.

  • Parameter: Added support for inputting NA as a text input value.

  • Parameter: Added support for the "Enable re-importing data" option, allowing you to control whether viewer users are permitted to re-import data.

  • Parameter: Display the 'Show Parameter' button when an insight includes refreshable data sources enabling users to run the insight with data import directly from the Parameter pane.

  • Schedule: Now you can specify the email address to deliver the scheduling error notification.

Bug Fixes

  • Content: Delete button should show all the time in the Version History dialog.

  • Admin: IP filter for the Admin UI should support IP range expression.

  • Dashboard: Cascading Parameter did not work for "Select All" for empty case.

  • Dashboard: Parameter pane was shown by default even if the dashboards did not include parameter.

  • Parameter: Run with Data Import failed when merged data frames were used in the insight.

10.2

Released on 7/26/2024

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Enhancements

  • The charts created inside R Code Block are now updated by running the parameter or scheduling the content (Dashboards, Notes, etc.).

  • Parameter: Support "Run with Data Import" option inside the Parameter pane. Now the Viewer users can not only updating the data with Parameter, but also re-importing the latest data from the data sources.

  • Parameter: Added text input field validation when the 'Allow Empty' option was not set and no values were entered.

  • Interactive: Now you can enable/disable the Show Detail Data feature from the Setting dialog.

  • Schedule: Now you can set Hour and Minute when you set up the schedule.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin UI: The "Last Desktop Startup" date was not updated in some instances.

  • Parameter: The "Update data for chart export" checkbox should not be shown inside the Parameter pane. The data for chart export is always updated when running the dashboards / notes with Parameter.

  • Schedule: Team scheduling failed after the other team member republished the content (Dashboards, Notes, etc.).

  • General: The "Download" menu shouldn't show up if you log in to the server as a Viewer.

10.1

Released on 06/13/2024

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Bug Fixes

  • Data Source: Google BigQuery - When importing data via Google Cloud Storage, the results contained data from another import.

  • Admin: Resolved an issue where connection and scheduled information were not transferred when changing the ownership of content to another user.

  • Admin: Exploratory Server docker-compose file migration script did not work.

10.0

Released on 06/10/2024

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Enhancements

  • Data Source: Snowflake: Now it supports secret key file authentication.

  • Content: Now the output of the R code block such as image or text in Note / Dashboard gets updated if you use the parameter or schedule it.

  • Admin: Added an "Admin" column to the user list table for easier identification and management of admin users

  • Admin: Admin users can now view the activation URL for users awaiting approval in the user list.

  • Admin: Admin users now have the ability to change the ownership of content published on the server.

  • Admin: Now you can set up the IP white list for the Server Admin page access.

  • Admin: Now you can view the access logs per user or per content.

  • Dashboard: Now you can specify which page to open by default by specifying a "page=" URL parameter.

  • Search: Now you can use a single quote to surround keywords when you search the contents.

  • Parameter: Now it supports overwriting (None) and (All) labels for List of Values

  • Parameter: Now it supports the quote option so that you can make column names as parameter values inside calculations.

  • Parameter: Now you can choose which side (left or right) to show the parameter pane.

  • Schedule: Now you can specify the end date of the scheduling.

Bug Fixes

  • Content: If you scheduled a note or dashboard with a Table that contains NA values and exported the Table data to the CSV after that, it showed "NA" text for the NA values instead of empty values.

  • Content: If you use the embedded mode and you have narrower window width, the parameter pane shouldn't show by default and it should have a parameter toggle button at the top right corner.

  • Content: Scheduling History didn't show the recent history logs if there were more than 200 logs.

  • Content: The team suggestion should show all teams even if you don't belong to in the Share dialog on the Hosted/On-Prem Server.

  • Admin: Admin should be able to remove invited but not confirmed users from the User Admin UI.

  • Admin: Admin users are now required to enter both the first and last names when adding a new user.

  • Admin: Admin users should be able to see the users without scrolling inside a user list table.

  • Parameter: It failed to update the Parameter and showed the “Error: IOError: Failed to open local file. No such file or directory” error on a fresh Hosted/On-Prem Server installation.

  • Parameter: Parameter pane didn't show up on public content if you were not logged in.

  • Parameter: Session failed to initialize due to the "TypeError: e.replace is not a function" error if you created a multi-value parameter and changed it to the single-value parameter.

  • Parameter: The show detail table showed "Chart rendering failed." if the underlying step had more than 100 columns.

  • Parameter: When the parameter was executed, the parameter pane became blank, and the charts displayed "No Data."

9.0

Released on 03/07/2024

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Enhancements

  • Data Source: Now you can schedule an insight whose data source is Oracle Database.

  • Published Content: Now you can use Markdown syntax for comments when publishing.

  • Published Content: Now you can select how many versions to keep for the history at the server.

  • Search: Support an alphabetical sorting for contents.

  • Parameter: Now you can extend the interactive session by clicking the "Extend" button in the timeout dialog.

  • Parameter: Now you can enable or disable the parameter feature for each shared user from the Share dialog.

  • Parameter: Now you can reset all values to default.

  • Parameter: Support passing default parameter values over the URL parameter.

  • Scheduler: Support Monthly Period.

Bug Fixes

  • Data Source: Amazon Aurora: Bundled the latest Certificate File.

  • Data Source: Google Sheets: HTTP2 farming layer error was raised for some occasions.

  • Insight: Applying a Dashboard filter showed the "Error: object 'XXX' not found" on the other charts.

  • Insight: Deleting published content didn't remove its associated files if you deleted it from the Stats page.

  • Insight: If you accessed the team-owned dashboard URL without logging in, it took you to the account setting page after the login.

  • Insight: When publishing a dashboard with the "Save Selected Values" unchecked, it did not show a parameter default value on the server side.

  • Project: Restoring a team-owned project by another team member showed an error on the UI.

  • Project: The notification email should include the list of changes.

  • Scheduler: It always showed "00:00" for the daily schedule even if you scheduled the other time.

  • Scheduler: Layout of the Scheduler Admin page corrupted right after running a "Rum Immediate" scheduling.

  • Scheduler: Parameter with a dynamic default value such as max date was not evaluated at the scheduling time.

  • Scheduler: Scheduling a Data share with a CSV data source failed with "Can't subset columns with islist.” if the data source CSV became empty.

  • Scheduler: Scheduling failed with the "There is another R process running." error if the scheduling took a long time.

8.0

Released on 10/11/2023

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Enhancements

  • Now you can request an access when you don't have it for the contents you're trying to open.
  • Now you can choose whether you want to send an invitation email or not when sharing your contents with others.
  • Admin: We have added user access and content event log information in the log file.

Bug Fixes

  • After publishing data, it showed the data frame's internal name instead of the display name.

  • The parameter pane should be closed by default when you open a note.

  • Publishing a dashboard failed if the dashboard contained very large data.

  • Parameter: It showed an error "Processing might have failed due to the large data size." if you updated the parameter on a dashboard that contains a lot of charts and data.

  • Parameter: Updating parameters didn’t refresh charts on a data frame that joined another data frame including parameters.

  • Parameter: When there was a parent-child relationship in parameters, changing the parent parameter did not update the list of values in the child parameter.

  • Parameter: Updating parameters failed if you used a function from the "zipangu" R package in the step.

  • Admin: Column sorting result should show the rows with values first before ones with NA.

  • Admin: Now it shows the users you have created but not confirmed yet.

7.0

Released on 5/25/2023

Enhancements

  • Parameter: Single Select LOV: Supported the 'Set all values when no value is selected' option.

  • Parameter: Multi Select LOV: Supported the 'Return All' and 'Return Empty' options for the 'Set all values when no value is selected' case.

  • Parameter: Enabled the Data Download button regardless of the Download option.

  • Project: Now you can see what has been changed by each project publish at the project page.

  • Scheduler: Now you can configure the HTTP request timeout.

  • Stats / Insight Page: Improved the page generation performance for the Insight Search page and the Stats dialog.

  • Stats Page: Translated the Stats dialog for Japanese.

Bug Fixes

  • Insight: Restoring a team-owned project by the other team member didn't work and showed an error.

  • Insight: Schedule icon didn't show up on the Dashboard page if it was shared an insight as a team and the URL share was enabled.

  • Parameter: The list of values parameter width was narrower than what's supposed to be on mobile phones.

  • Parameter: When publishing contents with parameters, the parameter values were not set correctly.

  • Parameter: When parameters had a parent and child relationship, the child parameter did not get updated after the parent parameter value was changed for some occasions.

6.12.3.6

Released on 2/28/2023

Breaking Change

The URL Sharing using a special URL has been discontinued. You can still use the special URLs that you currently have. The special URL will be disabled and removed if you disable the URL Sharing from the Share dialog on the individual insight page.

The new URL Sharing uses the main insight URL. Once you turn on URL Sharing, you can just copy the URL from the URL bar and send it to someone. Then she/he can access the insight without logging in.

Enhancements

  • Admin: Now you can add a description for each user.
  • Insight: Now you can use the main insight URL for the URL Share.
  • Insight: Project: Now you can change the visibility (private or public) of the insight/project from the Share dialog on the server side.
  • Insight: Project: Now you can choose a particular team for the insight/project search condition.
  • Insight: Project: Now you can delete your insight/project from the individual insight page.
  • Insight: Project: Now you can delete your insight/project from the Stats page.
  • Insight: Project: Now you can see the original author, creation date, last updated by, and last updated date of the team-owned insight/project from the information dialog.
  • Parameter: Now any logged-in user can use the parameter by default if the insight is public.
  • Parameter: Now you can use the parameter on an insight opened by the URL Share.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin: Users table now displays the Last Page View Date and Last Desktop Start Date, and it also supports table search by any column, pagination, and column sorting by clicking on the column name.
  • Insight: Not only the original author but also the other team members should be able to update the URL share setting if the published insight is owned by the team. project from the information dialog.
  • Parameter: If you had a chart from Prophet Analytics in a dashboard and updated the parameter that returned no row, it showed the "Error in validate_empty_data(df) : Input data frame is empty" error.
  • Parameter: It didn't open the LOV when the parameter pane was shown on top of the page.
  • Parameter: Logical LOV: Only the selected value was displayed and the other option was not included in the list.
  • Parameter: The parameter list was not updated in a dashboard if there was a parent-child relationship between the parameters and the parent parameter was updated.
  • Stats: URLs for team-owned insights were incorrect on the Stats page.

6.11.2.1

Released on 10/19/2022.

Bug Fixes

  • Super Table: The search input field was displayed too long and overlapped with the label next to it.
  • Insight: The style of the Show Detail dialog was not consistent with the one on the Exploratory Desktop.
  • Parameter: After typed in text to search field, parameter height was shrink where it should keep the original height.

6.11.0.5

Released on 9/28/2022.

Enhancements

  • Insight: Now you can show the detail data by clicking a Chart on Dashboard and Note.
  • Parameter: Supported the new List of Values widget for multi-select and single-select parameters.

Bug Fixes

  • Insight: A notification was not sent to the team members when an insight was restored from the history even if you published the insight with the "Notify team members" option.
  • Insight: Japanese characters were garbled if you opened a chart data CSV file exported from the Dashboard on Excel.
  • Insight: Now all the invited users can use the Parameter by default.
  • Insight: The information dialog showed duplicate data frame names on Dashboard and Note.
  • Insight: You couldn't unsubscribe the team-owned insight and if you were a team member but not an original author.
  • Parameter: Now it doesn't include the number of rows processed by using Parameter in the total number of rows processed.
  • Parameter: Now it supports dynamic min and max dates for date parameters.
  • Scheduler: Dashboard scheduling failed if an R query returned 0 rows for a Chart in a Dashboard.

6.10.4.6

Released on 7/18/2022.

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduling: Exporting the scheduled data to Google Sheets failed.

6.10.4.5

Released on 7/15/2022.

Enhancements

  • Insight: Now, you can download data and images for each chart in Note and Dashboard.
  • Insight: Now, you can publish dictionaries for text analysis.
  • Insight: Project: Now, you can delete the version histories to save the disk space from the Version History dialog.
  • Parameter: Now, you can choose how to show the parameter pane (either "overlay" mode or "fitted in the screen" mode) from the Parameter Setting dialog.

Bug Fixes

  • Collaboration: Now, updating projects on the server or synchronizing the local project with the one on the server is done by sending/receiving only the differences. This makes the project publishing and updating much faster.
  • Data: Table header columns and the data were not matching.
  • Insight: Inf/-Inf values in Date/POSIXct columns were treated as NA in the Summary View.
  • Parameter: When you opened the parameter pane for the first time for a published chart, it showed an empty parameter pane for some occasions.
  • Scheduling: The link to the insight in the scheduling notification email was broken.
  • Stats: The size on disk was always "0B" for team-owned projects.

6.9.6.1

Released on 4/19/2022.

Enhancements

  • Schedule: Google Sheets Export: Added a dropdown list to select between My Drive, Shared With Me, and Team Drives so that you can find the existing sheets easily.
  • Insight: Notification emails are now sent when your subscribed projects or insights are republished.

Bug Fixes

  • General: The version of the Exploratory Desktop to be downloaded was shown as the version of the Collaboration Server itself in the page footers.
  • Insight: Downloading CSV or EDF files for the published charts failed if a slash sign ("/") was used in the chart name.
  • Parameter: At the first parameter change in the interactive sessions, there were unnecessarily recalculations.
  • Parameter: An interactive mode failed to start when there were parameters whose data types were converted from numeric or character.
  • Parameter: An interactive mode stopped working when the insight was published as a team and the original author's type was changed from Author to Viewer.
  • Schedule: Schedules stopped working when the insight was published as a team and the original author's type was changed from Author to Viewer.

6.9.5.5

Released on 4/5/2022.

Enhancements

  • Parameter: Supported the Range Slider for numeric parameters.
  • Insight: Insight Search page is now translated to Japanese.
  • Schedule: You can now configure all the properties for Scheduling Runtime in your Account Setting page.
  • Reporting: You can now expand each chart inside Dashboards/Notes and show it in a full window mode.
  • Team: You can now notify team members when you publish Data, Insights, and Projects.

Bug Fixes

  • Insight: Data View: Numeric column did not show horizontal blue bars.

  • Insight: Data View: On iPhone or other smaller screen size devices, the row number dropdown and the search input box were overlapping.

  • Insight: Summary View: Inf and -Inf values were shown as "NA" in a numeric column.

  • Insight: Summary View: NA values were not properly counted in Date columns.

  • Insight: A "Page Not Found" error showed up if you clicked the "My Insight" menu on iPhone or other smaller screen devices.

  • Parameter: A "Cannot read property '0' of undefined" error showed up if you changed parameter values in the Word Cloud.

  • Parameter: An embedded R code referencing the parameter in a Note or Dashboard wasn't updated even if you changed the parameter values.

  • Parameter: Improved error message about missing data frame column necessary for a parameter's list-of-value.

  • Scheduler: For team-shared Dashboard and Note, the schedules were not properly canceled when they were unpublished.

  • Scheduler: Improved OAuth error handling for Salesforce and Twitter.

  • Scheduler: BigQuery: Data or insights that were created without explicitly specifying the Standard SQL option in the Connection dialog was run without the Standard SQL option on the server. In such cases, we changed the default behavior to be with the Standard SQL option.

6.8.4.2

Released on 1/20/2022.

Brief

The main new feature for this release is to support Project Level Collaboration. You can now publish your projects to the Server to share with others and version control the projects. You can publish the projects as a team or as an individual.

Enhancements

  • Version History: You can see the thumbnail images for the past scheduled charts and dashboards.
  • Version Control: You can see all the versions of projects you published before and you can restore to any version.
  • Parameter: Supported remembering the last selected Parameter values.
  • Data: The table for the published data page now shows formatted numeric values.

Bug Fixes

  • Data Source: After OAuth for Google Sheets, the browser was redirected to an incorrect URL that showed an error page.
  • Chart: If you have commas (',') in the Chart or Analytics name, downloading a CSV file from the Download button showed an error.
  • Data: Summary View showed all the columns even if you limited the number of columns on the Desktop before publishing it.
  • Parameter: Performance of parameter session was improved by optimizing the usage of cached data.
  • Parameter: On Safari, if you downloaded the CSV file from the Download button and then changed the Parameter, it showed a network error.
  • Parameter: Setting an empty string to a text field for a numeric parameter caused an error.
  • Parameter: When moving a slider too far outside the parameter pane, it didn't trigger refreshing the Dashboard even if the auto-run was enabled.
  • Parameter: Word Cloud on a Note showed the error "error code 127" on the chart area if you changed the Parameter to a value that would return no data.
  • R package: The jpmesh R package is made available on the server.
  • Schedule: The timestamp of the published data and insights were updated even when their scheduled jobs failed.
  • Schedule: The error message text overflowed in the notification email when it was too long.

6.8.2.4

Released on 11/30/2021

Enhancements

  • Admin: Added the "Last Updated" column in the admin stats page.
  • Insight: Added the "Last Updated" column in the stats page.
  • Data Source: Supported workgroup argument for Amazon Athena connection.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin: When removing a team or a user, associated data shares, charts, analytics, notes, and dashboards were not cleanly removed for some occasions
  • Data Source: SQL query failed if UseResultsetStreaming and RowsToFetchPerBlock were set for an Amazon Athena connection.
  • Data Wrangling: After sorting numeric columns in descending order, all the column values became negative.
  • Insight: Delete icons were missing for team-published insights in the insight search page.
  • Parameter: Improved the error messages.
  • Schedule: Improved the message for the scheduling failure notification email.

6.8.0.19

Released on 11/17/2021

Enhancements

  • Admin: Now the Scheduler UI uses the same port number as the other pages.
  • Insight: Now you can assign the "Can Update Share Setting" role to people you share your Insight so that they can also invite the other people.
  • Insight: Now you can see the utm_campaign and utm_media information in the Insight stats dialog.
  • Parameter: Supported cache option for dynamic LOV items.
  • Parameter: Supported the option to show all the available LOV items for a dynamic LOV.
  • Schedule: Supported writing back the results of the scheduled job to Google Sheets.

Bug Fixes

  • General: "New Version Available" message was wrongly shown for M1 Mac version of the Exploratory Desktop logged in to the Exploratory Server.
  • General: After OAuth re-authorization for a team-shared Insight, the browser was redirected to a wrong Insight URL with the user's ID instead of the team ID.
  • Insight: Data Tab: Rows are not properly shown when a column name contains special characters.
  • Insight: Data Tab: Table is not properly rendered for a publish data that has rownames.
  • Insight: Incorrect user thumbnails showed up in the Insight History dialog if you had multiple authors for the Insight.
  • Insight: The table view in the Data share showed only 200 rows even you have more rows after changing the Parameter.
  • Insight: The view count in the Insight stats dialog was less than the number at the top of the main Insight view.
  • Insight: When an Insight is shared with a team, it should send a notification email to all team members.
  • Parameter: Prediction model with local file threw error about missing data file at rebuilding the model by updating parameter values on the server.
  • Parameter: When moving a slider to the far end, the slider drag event didn't clear and it kept moving the slider even after releasing mouse.
  • Parameter: When the Parameter session fails due to a data source error such as connection info is missing, it should show the error message and hint on UI.
  • Schedule: If Collab Server was shut down while a scheduled job is running, the job hanged after the Collab Server is restarted #22472
  • Schedule: Scheduling failure notification email should include more hint and information in addition to the error message.
  • Stats: The number of views on the stats page was lower than the actual view count.
  • Stats: The total disk usage on stats page was less than the sum of the usages of all the documents.
  • Stats: The total number of the "Rows Processed This Month" should be included in the stats page for the Administrator.

6.7.0.16

Released on 8/20/2021

Enhancements

  • General: Now you can change the language setting for the notification emails at the Account Setting page.
  • Insight: Now you can see the scheduling detail information in the Insight Subscription dialog.
  • Insight: Now you can customize the message title and text for the Insight invitation email.
  • Insight: Now you can see a thumbnail image if available in the Insight invitation email.
  • Schedule: Now you can see a thumbnail image if available in the schedule notification email.
  • Schedule: Now a thumbnail image is also refreshed based on the latest data when a schedule runs.

Bug Fixes

  • Schedule: When scheduling failed for a Google Drive Data source due to an OAuth error, it didn't show a re-auth link in the Error Details dialog.
  • Schedule: The server instance went down if you subscribed to an Insight that had been published as a team.
  • Schedule: A scheduled job runs twice once in a while.
  • Schedule: When scheduling a Google Analytics data source, it didn't honor the user's timezone.
  • Schedule: If the Exploratory Server was shut down while a scheduled job was running, the job hanged after the Exploratory Server was restarted.
  • General: After OAuth re-authorization for a team-shared insight, the browser was redirected to a wrong insight URL with the user's ID used in place of the team ID
  • General: In the insight update history page, avator picture for the login user was used instead of correct ones for the users who updated the insight.

6.6.2.0

Released on 6/21/2021

Enhancements

  • General: Supported Salesforce Data Source Scheduling and Interactive mode.
  • Schedule: We now automatic retry failed schedules caused by a temporary 500/503 error from Google REST API.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin: Creating a new user failed after creating 3 new users.
  • Admin: it should ask "Logout and continue?" to proceed the user activation if you are already logged in as an Admin user and clicked a user activation link.
  • Admin: Translated “Are you sure?” message in Japanese.
  • Chart: Published chart should use the same UI locale that the user was using when the user published the chart on the Desktop.
  • Dashboard: Parameter failed to refresh a Table when you updated the paraeter and clicked the "OK" button if the Table is from Analytics Data tab.
  • General: When POSIXct column name contains period(.), table didn't show the data properly.
  • Insight: CSV API response missed the Content-Type HTTP header.
  • Insight: A URL link to the insight in the share notification email was incorrect for insights shared as team.
  • Insight: If deletion of a published data or chart was done from the server UI, the directory for the insight on the server was left, which took up disk spece unnecesarily.
  • Insight: If publishing of an Insight fails, directory on the server for the insight was left in the middle of the creation, which took up disk spece unnecesarily.
  • Parameter: An incorrect default value showed up in a character parameter if the parameter was originally created as a Date parameter and switched to the character type.
  • Parameter: Downloading chart data by clicking download button didn't work if you started the parameter session but didn't change the parameter yet.
  • Parameter: Error "error code 3" at enabling Parameters if data connections were not published together with the Insight.
  • Parameter: Parameter did not always use the the same time zone that was used when the insight was created on the Desktop.
  • Parameter: The "Download" button in the Parameter pane should be enabled from the beginning of the Parameter session even before clicking the "Run" button.
  • Parameter: When hitting enter Key after selecting item, the parameter didn't get executed
  • Schedule: Error "error code 3" at running a scheduled job if data connections were not published together with the insight.
  • Schedule: The scheduled job did not always use the the same time zone that was used when the Insight was created on the Desktop.

6.5.0.14

Released on 4/20/2021

Enhancements

  • Insight: Now you can choose the "Owned by Team" scope on the Insight search page.
  • Insight: Now you can receive email notifications by subscribing to Insights that are scheduled regularly.
  • Insight: Now Script can be published along with Insights.
  • General: Support for accessing data files on Google Drive.

Bug Fixes

  • Schedule: Running a Dashboard with many Charts or Analytics failed, and the spin icon on the Insight page kept spinning after the failure as if the scheduled job was going on.
  • Server: When using relative date such as "today" as the default value of a Date or POSIXct parameter, if the relative date was outside of min and max, the Parameter was not properly rendered.
  • Server: Download button was not enabled as expected after enabling Parameters.
  • Server: When opening a list of values in the Parameter pane, the options were cut off at the bottom and not fully visible.
  • Insight: The view stats dialog showed an error if the Insight was shared as a Team.
  • Insight: The hover pop-up for the "Download" button became incorrect once you updated the share setting on the Insight page.
  • Insight: Accessing the CSV API URL of the public data share returned a 500 error.
  • Insight: Histogram data on the user stats page was incorrect.
  • Insight: Thumbnails didn't show for Insights that were shared as a Team.
  • Parameter: Turning Parameters on at an Insight page failed if a parameter with list of value that is dynamically fetched from another Data Frame had the list-of-value display name column that is same as the value column.
  • Parameter: Updating the Parameter Option of a publicly shared Insight raised an error.
  • Summary View: It showed 100% for NA values even if there was no NA value if you had a character column with text data starting with "NA".
  • General: When the hostname or IP address of an on-premise Exploratory Server was changed, hostname/IP address of Data Catalog URL sent to Exploratory Desktop stayed old, causing error at importing data from Data Catalog.
  • General: A URL link to Insight in an invitation email was incorrect if the Insight was shared as a Team.

6.4.5.2

Released on 2/25/2021

Enhancements

  • General: Now you can create a Team, assign members to the Team. Team members can collaboratively publish Insights as a Team.

  • Admin: Now it shows Collaboration Server version Info at the bottom of the page.

  • Admin: Now Collaboration Server Administrator can view the stats for all users from the Collaboration Server Administration page.

  • Data Catalog: Now you can highlight a row in Super Table by clicking the row.

  • Insight: Now you can download the CSV data by clicking the button or use an API to download the CSV data for Chart and Analytics.

  • Insight: Now you can see the view/usage stats of your Insights from the "Stats" menu in the user dropdown menus.

  • Parameter: Now you can click the "Download" button in the parameter pane to download the CSV data.

Bug Fixes

  • Admin: On Create User dialog, email validation message was not properly shown when the entered email address was in an incorrect format.
  • Data Catalog: Super Table: When entering search text for a column, rows with NA values were not filtered out.
  • General: "Re-auth" link didn't show up in the OAuth error messages.
  • Insight: Buttons on the navigation area at the top overlapped the title text in the Insight page.
  • Parameter: Analytics published from Exploratory Desktop older than 6.3 raised error when Parameter was turned on, because of lack of cached Analytics result data. With this release, such a case can be handled without resulting in an error.
  • Parameter: Analytics View result was not properly updated when the Parameters it depends on were changed.
  • Parameter: Changing the parameter value didn't make any changes on the Analytics chart after changing the parameter one or two times.
  • Parameter: In some cases, a duplicated Run button was shown at the bottom of the parameter pane.
  • Parameter: Prediction models created by Analytics View was rebuilt when Parameter was turned on. Now we make use of published cached models to avoid potentially computationally expensive model building.
  • Parameter: With Dashboard, Note, or Slide, turning on the Parameters failed with a message "error code 3" if the value for a numeric text field parameter was set to an empty string.
  • Parameter: Word Cloud chart didn't change even if you changed the parameter values.
  • Schedule: After re-authorizing the OAuth access, it didn't return to the original Insight page where you started the re-authorization process.
  • Schedule: Refreshing data did not work for the Weather Data.

6.3.4.0

Released on 12/30/2020

Bug Fixes

  • Analytics: Analytics that have been published with Exploratory Desktop 6.3 or older version raised errors when interacting with them with the Parameters or scheduling them.
  • Analytics: The underlying logic for building the models under the Analytics View has been optimized to run it more efficiently.
  • Analytics: Cached Analytics models were not properly invalidated when the Parameters it depends on were updated.
  • Parameter: Existing RDS/Parquet data cache files were not cleaned up properly when they were republished.
  • Insight: Invitation to an Insight using email address did not work if the specified email address had upper case letters.
  • Insight: Insight Search by date range was not working.

6.3.1.10

Released on 12/10/2020

Enhancements

  • Parameter: Supporting the prediction feature with models created by the Analytics View in the Interactive mode.
  • Scheduler: Notification emails will be sent when the scheduling jobs failed. (SMTP server configuration is required.)
  • Server: Users can now set their locale related setting from the server UI (locale, first day of week). This information is used for the Scheduling and the Interactive mode.
  • Insight: Supporting "Last 7 days" and "Last 30 days" options in Date Range parameter in Insight Search.

Bug Fixes

  • Parameter: When opening the Parameters pane, it was showing the "hidden" parameters.
  • Parameter: Interactive Session with the database data source type published by previous versions of Exploratory Desktop raised an error.
  • Server: Deletion of published Data/Chart/Analytics did not correctly recover the disk space.

6.2

Released on 10/16/2020

Enhancements

  • Parameter: Before this release, even when the list of values for a categorical parameter was based on unique values of a data frame column, the list of values were fetched only at the creation of the parameter, and it had fixed options of values after that. With this release, list of values for such a parameter is dynamically updated when the data frame it depends on is updated.
  • Summary View: We now show percentages for character and factor columns.

Bug Fixes

  • Parameter: Display name was not used for the the 'List of Values' type parameters.
  • Parameter: List of Values did not work when the referenced column name contained special characters.
  • Parameter: Starting the Interactive Session failed with error "could not find function '%>%'".
  • Scheduler: Refreshing the Dashboards with Wordcloud charts was not working.
  • Server: The Map was shown over the parameter pane.

6.1

Released on 9/20/2020

Enhancements

  • Data Catalog: Support "History" tab next to the "Metadata" tab in published Data Shares.
  • Insight: Data Range search option improvement to show the most viewed Insights based on the last N period in Insight view.
  • Insight: Tile view support in Insight view
  • Insight: Insight Search: Page loading performance improvement.
  • Parameter: Partial chart refreshing support for markdown reports (Dashboard, Slides, Note)
  • Parameter: Improved Parameter usability by uptaking new widgets.
  • Parameter: At the begining of an Interactive Session, Collaboration Server loads the data to be used in the Insight from the Parquet or RDS files. Before this release, Collaboration Server just loaded all the data for data source steps and recalculated necessary steps from there, regardless of steps cached on the Exploratory Desktop. Now we honor steps cached on the Exploratory Desktop, and calculation on the Collaboration Server also starts from the cached step data, instead of from the data source step data, if it is available.
  • Parameter: Scheduler: Data loading time performance improvement.
  • Parameter: Set "Autorun" off by default.
  • Parameter: Scheduler: Connection initialization performance improvement.
  • Scheduler: Publish history on a shared item includes updates by the scheduler.
  • General: Before this release, connection information for Data Sources, such as host name for a database server, was kept in each one of the Data Source Steps uploaded to the Collaboration Server. This meant that if a connection information changed, you had to re-upload all the Insights that used the data sources with the connection information. With this release, we store the connection information as a centralized metadata on the server. This means you need to upload only one of the Insights that uses the changed connection informatoin, and the rest of the Insights start using the new connection information uploaded with the one Insight you uploaded.

Bug Fixes

  • Data Catalog: Scheduling a shared Data, Chart or Analytics broke the connection information defined on the server.
  • Data Catalog: Invalid API key is set in CSV API URL if you are not logged in.
  • Data Catalog: If the Super Table has a list data type column, it failed to render the table when typing search keywords in search input field.
  • Data Catalog: Super Table didn't load properly when network speed was slow.
  • Parameter: When numbers were used for parameter display names, single select pulldown for Numeric column did not work.
  • Parameter: Before this release, if Rserve child process, which is the R execution environment for Collaboration Server, crashed while executing, Interactive Session or Scheduled Data Refresh was kept waiting indefinitely. Now we handle such cases better, and the error is properly reported to the user.
  • Scheduler: Scheduler failed at .save_remote_rds and threw "file.exists(path) is not TRUE" error.
  • Scheduler: If you modified the title and description online and schedule it, it reset the modification on the title and description.
  • General: Download page should not show download button for Viewer users.
  • General: Empty LOV showed up if you clicked a '...' button on a Data share page that you didn't own.

6.0

Released on 6/12/2020

Enhancements

  • Japanese translations for more UIs including Share, Schedule, and Parameter.
  • Added the Parameter support for Chart and Analytics.
  • You can write a message and send it when you share the published contents with others.
  • You can add a comment when you publish or republish. The comments can be viewed as 'History' by others.
  • Support SMTP for sending out notification emails.

Bug Fixes

  • Changes made to a user's properties were not immediately reflected on the Admin UI.
  • Set "Shared with me" as a default scope if Viewer selects "My insight" menu from the user dropdown menu.
  • Schedule: After a long-running job, other jobs stayed in the queue and did not get processed.
  • Certified with Exploratory Desktop 6.0.1.

5.5.5

Released on 3/26/2020

Bug Fixes

  • The Share dialog now shows the sharing URL once the URL share is enabled.
  • Bundle/host all the 3rd party libraries inside the Collaboration Server.
  • Updated the link for the Getting Started guide.

5.5.4.2

Released on 3/11/2020

Bug Fixes

  • Added a support for the OAuth data sources including Google Sheet, Google Analytics, Google BigQuery, etc.

  • Added a support for MS SQL Server data sources for scheduling and the interactive mode.

  • Each author can now enable the Parameter for his/her Dashboards and other contents to those who are not logged in.

  • Schedule: You can now re-authorize the expired OAuth tokens from the server UI.

  • Admin UI: The User table shows the user type, either Author or Viewer for each user.

  • Header menu is now translated for Japanese.

  • Admin UI is also now translated for Japanese.

  • The user type was shown as "Public" where it should be "Viewer" at the server UI.

  • Admin UI: "Scheduler" user type was shown in the user table.

  • Deleted users were displayed on the Users Administration page.

5.5.1.1

Released on 2/3/2020

Bug Fixes

  • Admin UI: Type of user accounts (Author/Viewer) displayed on the Users Administration page was not correct.
  • Parameter: Run button flickered unnecessarily, when parameter values were changed.

5.5.1

Released on 1/31/2020

Enhancements

  • Certified with Exploratory Desktop 5.5.1.

Bug Fixes

  • Parameter: Minimum/maximum limit on text field numeric parameter was not correctly enforced.
  • Improved response time for opening Share Dialog.

5.4.1

Released on 12/1/2019

Enhancements

  • The data download REST API now supports the private data access. Also, users can directly download the privately shared data directly in Exploratory Desktop.
  • Added "Liked by Me" search scope for the Insight Page.
  • Partial word matching support for the Tag search for the Insight View.

Bug Fixes

  • Now "Scope" search criteria doesn't show up for the guest users (users without logging in).
  • Dashboard view didn't resize properly when a user resize the browser window.
  • Super Table didn't get refreshed after the Data was refreshed.

5.3.2

Released on 9/10/2019

Enhancements

  • Certified with Exploratory Desktop 5.3.2.

Bug Fixes

  • Timezones used for timestamps displayed in shared Dashboard/Note/Slide page was inconsistent.