What's New in SAS BI Dashboard 4.31

Overview

SAS BI Dashboard 4.31 has the following enhancements and new features:
  • features for dashboard designers
  • features for business users

Features for Dashboard Designers

In the second maintenance release of SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
  • The software offers a new indicator type called multi-line chart.
  • The software offers a new feature called Bring to Front and Send to Back.
  • The dynamic prompt indicator offers the following features:
    • You can specify an optional label.
    • You no longer must specify a range. The default prompt setting is now Combo box.
    • You can specify an All Values selection for filtering data on a local system or a remote server. This selection requires that the indicator data source be either a SAS Information Map or a SAS Stored Process.
  • The dynamic text indicator offers a larger text box.
  • When using static labels, you can specify to remove the drop shadow effect.
  • The following KPI indicator gauge types support custom range color settings:
    • Arrow
    • Arrow (small)
    • Button
    • Cylinder
    • Fancy arrow
    • Pointer
    • Simple arrow
    • Slider
    • Solid tachometer
    • Traffic light (small)
  • When you specify a link from an indicator or dashboard, the Set Up Link window automatically fills in the parameters in the Optional Parameter table.
  • The spark table indicator offers the Hide gauge label setting.
  • The following indicators support the selection of multiple rows or items by the business user. The multiple selection affects how an interaction displays information in a related indicator:
    • Bar chart with bullet
    • Bar chart with reference lines
    • Bubble plot
    • Clustered bar chart
    • Dual line chart
    • Forecast chart
    • Multi-line chart
    • Line chart with reference lines
    • Needle plot
    • Pie chart
    • Range map
    • Scatter histogram
    • Scatter plot
    • Schedule chart
    • Simple bar chart
    • Spark table
    • Stacked bar chart
    • Targeted bar chart
    • Tile chart
    • Vector plot
    • Waterfall chart
  • You can specify parameters that can be passed to a dashboard when it is opened. These parameters are used to set the initial value of the prompts in the dashboard.
  • You can specify default parameter values for any indicator that uses parameters.
  • You can add extra information to data tooltips. All data items appear in the data tooltips.
  • Supported formats from the SAS Stored Process data source are passed through to the indicator.
In SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
  • You create a dashboard interactively using drag-and-drop to add indicators to a dashboard.
  • The software saves files in a tree folder structure.
  • You can search for existing dashboards and objects and filter a search by a specific type of object.
  • You can more easily customize and size each indicator in a dashboard, as well as the dashboard itself.
  • You can set up indicators so that they interact with each other via events.
  • You can open and view multiple dashboards on different tabs in the dashboard designer workspace.
  • You can optimize screen space when building indicators and dashboards.
  • As you design a dashboard, you can preview different types of indicators to easily decide which indicator is most appropriate for the data that you are using.
  • You can customize fonts, font colors, and font sizes in a dashboard.

Features for Business Users

In the second maintenance release of SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
  • You can set a Favorite for a dashboard with prompts that saves the current prompt values that you are using to view the dashboard.
  • Depending on how an interaction is customized, you can select multiple rows or items at once to affect how information is displayed in a related indicator.
In SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
  • You can run SAS BI Dashboard in a separate window (the dashboard viewer) rather than in the SAS Information Delivery Portal. When run in the dashboard viewer, the software offers more functionality than when displayed in the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
  • You can zoom in and view details in a dashboard.
  • You can create comments for indicators in a dashboard.
  • You can create and manage personal favorites.
  • The software offers new indicator types, such as waterfall chart, vector plot, and spark table, which can display a table with spark lines.
  • The software can brush (interactively highlight) data within an indicator. Also, indicators can interact with each other.
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