DataLion Release 2025.2.185 – revamped sharing & embedding, cleaner reports, smarter filters

🚀 Highlights

Sharing & Embedding, Reimagined — We’ve completely overhauled how dashboard sharing and embedding works. Cleaner URLs, more reliable authentication, and a smoother experience for everyone — whether you’re sharing with colleagues or embedding dashboards for your clients.

✨ What’s New

  • 🔗 Smarter share links: Ever shared a report link and the recipient ended up on the wrong page after logging in? Not anymore! Unauthenticated users are now redirected straight to the shared report — zero friction, zero confusion.

  • 👁️ Clean shared reports: Sharing a report with external stakeholders? You can now hide the navigation buttons for a sleek, presentation-ready view. Find this option in your dashboard’s share settings.

  • 📊 “Different base” warning control: Got pie charts where the “different base” warning is more noise than signal? A new setting lets you hide it. Head to Admin → Projects → Settings → Value Display and toggle “Hide different base warning”.

  • 🔍 Sorted filter lists: Excluded questions in global filter dropdowns are now sorted alphabetically — finding the right filter just got a lot easier.

📈 Improvements

  • PDF report export now runs in the background, so you can keep working while your reports are being generated. No more waiting around!
  • Benchmark filters now support selecting multiple values at once — power users, rejoice!
  • Codebook export validates visibility settings more strictly, preventing items with invalid display values from sneaking through.
  • Grid layout changes are automatically cleared from your browser when you navigate away — no more stale layouts reappearing unexpectedly.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed tooltip display issues on certain chart types.
  • Improved pie chart source warning behavior.
  • Fixed category axis label rendering.

DataLion Release 2025.2.187 – instant dynamic filters, per-chart filtering, smart codebook mapping

🚀 Highlights

Faster Filters — No More Page Reloads! — This is a big one. Global filters now update instantly via dynamic dropdowns. Changing a filter no longer reloads the entire page, making dashboard exploration dramatically faster and smoother. Once you try it, you won’t want to go back.

✨ What’s New

  • ⚡ Dynamic global filters: Filter dropdowns now load data on the fly and apply changes without a full page reload. Navigating large dashboards with multiple filters has never been this fast.

  • 📊 Per-chart filter menu: Each chart now has its own dedicated filter menu with AJAX-powered dropdowns — giving you granular control over individual chart data without touching the global filters.

  • 🔘 Custom buttons in filter bar: The global filter bar now supports optimized custom action buttons, giving administrators more flexibility to design the perfect filter experience for their users.

  • 🧠 Smart codebook column mapping: Importing a codebook? DataLion now suggests column mappings automatically based on your data structure — saving you time on repetitive setup work.

📈 Improvements

  • CSV import now accepts #, @, and . characters in identifiers, with clearer error messages when validation fails.
  • Login page auto-fills your email from the URL and focuses the password field — one less thing to type!
  • Password reset now shows clearer validation feedback so you know exactly what to fix.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Case numbers in sorted multistack charts now display correctly when no filters are active.
  • Fixed global filter dropdown positioning and toggle behavior.
  • Chart translations are now properly merged instead of overwritten, preserving all settings.
  • Single filter selection now correctly closes the dropdown before navigating.
  • Fixed a warning on the password reset page.

DataLion Release 2025.2.186 – friendlier chart errors, smart CSV handling, editable filters

🚀 Highlights

Friendlier Error Messages for Charts — No more staring at blank spaces wondering what went wrong. When a chart can’t load, you now get a clear, helpful message telling you exactly what happened — whether it’s a timeout, a server hiccup, or something else entirely.

✨ What’s New

  • 💬 Chart error cards: Charts that fail to load now show beautiful, user-friendly error cards. Timeout errors and server errors each get their own tailored message — no more guessing!

  • 🧹 Smart CSV column name handling: Importing a CSV with tricky column names (dots, spaces, special characters)? DataLion now offers to auto-fix them for you, or lets you cancel and correct the file yourself. Your call!

  • ✏️ Edit custom filters in place: Finally! You can now modify existing custom filters directly from the dashboard — no more deleting and recreating them from scratch.

📈 Improvements

  • PDF multi-page exports now produce higher quality output with smarter page handling.
  • Theme management is more reliable, especially in multi-tenant environments.
  • CSV delimiter detection is smarter and handles edge cases more gracefully.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Improved file path validation during data imports.
  • Fixed delimiter detection for certain CSV file formats.