Arcadia Enterprise 3.1.0
(ArcViz 3.1.0, ArcEngine 2.2.5)
This document contains release information notes for Arcadia Enterprise.
It is accurate at the time of publication. Arcadia Data updates release notes periodically after the software release.
Starting with this release, Arcadia Enterprise added support for connections to the following types of data sources: Spark SQL, and TD Aster.
See our general documentation about connections on Connecting to Data.
Starting with this release, Arcadia and Impala connections enable individual table refresh through the Connection Explorer interface. See Connection Explorer.
Starting with this release, Arcadia Enterprise supports CDH 5.5. We package CDH 5.4 and CDH 5.5 parcels as separate binaries; be sure to select the correct set of binaries during the installation.
UI improvements make it possible to manage all user's roles and groups in the same interface. See our documentation at Adding Multiple Users to Multiple Groups.
Often, business requirements dictate that users can only access limited data segments of the dataset. Arcadia Enterprise implements this access logic through Filter Associations. See our documentation at Restricting Row-Level Access.
Starting with this release, you can customize the Help menu. See our documentation at Customizing the Help Menu.
In this release, you can apply automatic column name changes, to make column titles more readable. See our documentation in Enabling Dataset Attribute Renaming and Automatically Renaming Columns.
This release introduces the notion of filter scope: explicit filter scope, dataset filter scope, and app group filter scope. Explicit scope enables you to set specific filters for one or two visuals, and override the default dataset scope filters. You set dataset scope filters at the level of the application; they apply to all visuals in the app that share the same dataset. You also set app group scope filters on the application level; they apply to all app groups that contain the same app groups.
Upgrading to this release will have the following effect on existing applications and visuals:
Therefore, when you add a new filter to an existing app, the filter applies to all visuals in that app. This is true even when existing filters in the app do not apply to the visuals in that app unless the filter is explicitly captured on the Filters shelf of the visual.
See our documentation about Filter Scope.
Starting with this release, it is possible to set filter parameters at runtime, by supplying the relevant values through the URL address.
See our documentation about Setting Parameters Through URL.
This release introduces or extends the following new features used in building visuals.
This new visualization type supports statistical distribution analysis of numerical data. See our documentation at Histogram Visuals.
This new visualization type plots two different measures for the same dimension. It has the option of assigning one of the measures to a secondary axis. See our documentation at Bar and Chart Visuals.
This release adds several new styling options for the table visual type:
This release adds a new category of styling for table visual type, Data, documented in Customizing Data.
With this release, Arcadia Enterprise adds a robust visual interface for configuring the formatting of columns on the shelves of a visual. In addition to the fully customizable masks available in previous product releases, we now have specific out-of-the box options for Number, Percentage, Scientific, and Date/Time formats.
See our documentation at Customizing Display Format, and supplemental resources at Understanding Date/Time Formats.
To learn how to add custom descriptions to columns of table visuals and axes of many chart types, see our documentation at Customizing Descriptions.
In this release, Arcadia Enterprise reports the dimensions, measures, and partitions used in building analytical views. Additionally, the SQL SELECT statement is hidden, but can be made visible by clicking Show SQL.
See our documentation at Managing Analytical Views in the User Interface and Creating Analytical Views in the User Interface.
In this release, Arcadia Enterprise added a mechanism for saving static views of apps as snapshot.png files. See our documentation at Saving Apps as PNG Files.
New utilities make it possible to quickly export and import analytical views. This facilitates both back-up and migration. See our documentation at Migrating Analytical Views.
New utilities make it possible to quickly export and import ArcViz datasets, visuals, and apps. This facilitates both back-up and migration. See our documentation at Migrating Datasets, Visuals, and Apps.