Second Quarter of 2020

Release Date: June 26, 2020

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on this date.

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve performance when visualizing data using non-aggregation queries, the maximum number of records that you can view has now been restricted to 100,000.US410707
You can now export a dashboard to a PDF or PNG file.US365725
The user interface of the Advanced Visualization module has been enhanced with a new look and feel. Additionally, when visualizing data using Advanced Visualization, the performance has been improved. The following list provides some of the key capabilities offered by the enhanced user interface:
  • Enhanced Home Page: Provides improved accessibility and navigability of the tools, functions, properties, and features within Advanced Visualization. The new interactive landing page automatically displays your favorites and last viewed items, based on your activity.
  • Enhanced Usability: Enables you to access the Advanced Visualization Designer from the home page. You also have a centralized view of your private content repository and the content shared by other users, improved searchability, and so on.
  • Enhanced Designer: Provides an integrated canvas that enables you to join data, visualize the data, and arrange your new content into an interactive page in a user session. Using the new features added to the designer, you can create a variety of standard or custom chart types and report layouts. You can customize each item by adding temporary fields, customizable subtotals, or contextualized links to other content items and web pages.
  • Enhanced Filter: Provides enhanced filtering capabilities to filter content based on the values of the associated fields. You can also specify filter criteria based on the visual elements selected in the designer, and then transform your chart or report instantly into a page, where you can customize the existing content or add additional content.
  • Enhanced Data Management: Provides improved accessibility to your data from a single, streamlined environment, which enables you to upload and modify data, connect to various data sources, configure adapters, and add or modify connections.
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You can now create and customize analytic charts and visualize analytic data using the Analytics and SmartSignal data sources. To facilitate this enhancement, the following baseline and custom business views have been added to Advanced Visualization:
  • For application analytics:
    • caf_deployments
    • caf_deployments_custom_business_view
  • For SmartSignal analytics:
    • assets_base
    • assets_custom_business_view
    • assets_models_clustered_business_view
    • models_base
    • models_custom_business_view
  • For SmartSignal jobs, events, and statistics:
    • jobs_base
    • jobs_custom_business_view
    • event_base
    • events_custom_business_view
    • statistics_base
    • statistics_custom_business_view
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You can now navigate from a chart or dashboard created in Advanced Visualization to the corresponding feature or module within Predix Essentials. This enhancement allows you to access the filtered data and take actions on the data in the user interface of the corresponding module.
Note: Currently, this feature is available for the following modules:
  • Alerts
  • Cases
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Table 2. Known Issues and Limitations

The following known issues and limitations exist.

DescriptionTracking ID
When using the following business views, you can visualize data for only one asset at a time:
  • assets_models_clustered_business_view
  • models_custom_business_view
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Release Date: May 8, 2020

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on this date.

Table 3. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The OData families now support the grouping and aggregation functionalities on the associated entities. This enhancement allows you to group and aggregate the records for an OData family and create advanced visualizations using the aggregated data. Additionally, you can filter an aggregation based on the filter parameters specified in the aggregate query.F49093
Table 4. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, you could not visualize data based on a site because the corresponding MI_SITE_KEY field associated with the OData-M families was not exposed by the OData services. This issue has been resolved. Now, the MI_SITE_KEY fields have been added to the OData services that allow you to visualize data based on the sites.DE127160
Table 5. Known Issues and Limitations

The following known issues and limitations exist.

DescriptionTracking ID
The OData aggregation extensions associated with the OData-M families do not support the groupby function for the records defined with one-to-many relationships.DE129102