DataLion Release 2025.1.174 – Enhanced Project Collaboration and Improved Export Features

We’re excited to announce the new DataLion release, packed with efficiency improvements and bug fixes to enhance your data analysis workflow.

🎯 New Features

Advanced Project Management

  • Cross-Project Report Copy: You can now copy reports between projects, making it easier to reuse your reports and dashboard across multiple analyses
  • Codebook Copy: Streamlined workflow with the ability to copy Codebooks between projects

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

Enhanced Export Functionality

  • Data Source Downloads: Fixed issue with unfiltered data downloads
  • Excel Export With Rotated Axes: Empty rows hidden in charts charts with rotated axes are now also hidden in Excel exports, maintaining visual consistency
  • Advanced Statistics Excel Export: Now also works seamlessly without setting a regression type and using the default

User Interface Enhancements

  • My Reports Menu Optimization: Menu now displays up to 80 characters and opens to the left to prevent cut-off text at right screen border
  • Complete Codebook Visibility: Fixed display issue ensuring all codebook columns remain visible without right-side truncation
  • PowerPoint Integration: Improved default behavior when no slide is selected in report settings – now uses the first master slide with placeholders. If there is none, it is creating a new placeholder on the first slide

Technical Improvements

  • CSV Import: Now correctly handles wrongly encoded HTML special characters and properly escapes quotation marks on Exasol
  • Base Index Calculation: Fixed rounding error
  • Data Source Management: Resolved several backend issues for smoother operation

This release reflects our ongoing commitment to improving your data analysis experience with DataLion. As always, we welcome your feedback as you explore these new features.

DataLion Release 2025.1.173 – New Price Sensitivity Chart, Enhanced Tables, and Improved Maintenance Experience

We’re excited to announce the new DataLion release, packed with features and improvements to help you create more insightful and effective data visualizations.

🎯 New Features

New Chart Type

  • Price Sensitivity Chart (Westendorp Method): We’ve added a powerful new visualization type that helps you understand optimal pricing points based on the Westendorp methodology. Perfect for product teams looking to make data-driven pricing decisions.
  • „Back to Start Page“ Button: When a project is under maintenance, users can now easily navigate back to the start page with a single click, improving the overall user experience during updates.

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

Enhanced Table Functionality

  • Tables with merged questions and top boxes now display the question title for better context
  • Crosstab functionalities have been extended to work seamlessly with tables containing subheadings
  • Improved readability and usability across all table types

Technical Improvements

  • Statistical Accuracy: Grand totals in crosstabs for row and cell percentages now correctly show 100%
  • Filter Consistency: Tables with Top2 filters now display accurate values for the base column
  • Backend Management: It’s now possible to delete individual items in the project backend
  • Codebook Generator: The system now correctly identifies nominal variables, ensuring proper data classification

Version 2025.1.172 Released – Synthetic Data, AI Themes and New Maintenance Mode

New Features

  • DD-4612 Project-specific maintenance mode implemented (editors and/or viewers see a maintenance notification instead of accessing the project)
  • DD-4788 It is now possible to generate synthetic data with AI (in the project backend under codebook)
  • DD-4789 Themes and color schemes can be created with AI (in the project backend under content)
  • DD-4790 Color schemes can be defined on project level (in the project backend under content)

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • DD-4784 Sharing report links on app instance works reliably
  • DD-4787 Report editor: design improvement of checkbox and button placement
  • DD-4791 PDF exports work for all server types
  • DD-4793 Sorting in polarity charts now also works with hidden categories
  • DD-4794 Textbox content is not cached
  • DD-4795 Edit symbol in the navbar works reliably again

Version 2025.1.171 released – Highlights: tables can be structured with subheadings, more options available in dropdown filter editor

New Feature

  • DD-4758 Deleting a target group also deletes the corresponding weights in the weights table
  • DD-4762 Subheadings added to tables with merged questions

Improvement

  • DD-4785 Dropdown filter editor: include_all implemented as option

Bug

  • DD-4610 It is possible again to create and apply new themes
  • DD-4783 Excel/PPTX Export – Charts without grid definition are sorted correctly now

Version 2025.1.170 released – Highlights: cases in mouseovers can be named flexibly, target group performance improved

New Feature

  • DD-4755 Target groups are matched by SQL formula

Improvement

  • DD-4351 Update to Bootstrap 5
  • DD-4766 It is possible to export a switched axes table with subfilters to PPTX
  • DD-4780 Mouseover shows a customized text for casenumbers, e.g. „cases“
  • DD-4781 User navbar in admin backend optimized

Version 2024.2.168 released – Highlights: powerpoint exports more flexible, sorting of open text charts by a different variable (e.g. timestamp)

Improvement

  • DD-3970 PPTX export: axis scale ranges are exported as defined in chart settings
  • DD-4752 PPTX export: when axis or axis labels are deactivated in the chartsettings, they are not exported to ppt
  • DD-4775 Open text charts can be sorted by a different variable

Bug

  • DD-4726 Default value for axes display in chart settings is „value axis“
  • DD-4750 PPT export definition (JSON): „valueAxis“:false overrides the chart settings
  • DD-4765 Exporting a switched axes table with subfilters to Excel works
  • DD-4768 It is now possible to turn to the next page in the charttype „open text“ in Exasol

Version 2024.2.167 released – Highlights: MaxDiff & machine readable excel exports implemented

New Feature

  • DD-4735 MaxDiff (count + aggregate logit) implemented
  • DD-4692 Machine readable Excel exports can be defined in the report settings

Improvement

  • DD-4745 Chart type „Driver analysis“ renamed to „Advanced statistics“

Bug

  • DD-4506 Data export from Exasol does not create additional row numbers anymore
  • DD-4713 Entering a servicelink does not change the URL anymore
  • DD-4725 Database columns can be renamed in Exasol
  • DD-4734 Cache improvement: individual filters / stacks of a question are cached

Version 2024.2.166 released – Highlights: chi-square test of independence implemented, performance optimizations

New Feature

  • DD-4584 Available licenses are shown in backend
  • DD-4728 New significance test implemented: Chi-square (test of independence)

Improvement

  • DD-4727 Significance tests renamed and implemented in PHP
  • DD-4731 Mean variables are only shown if mean values are to be displayed
  • DD-4732 Cache optimization
  • DD-4733 SQL queries with apostrophes are escaped

Version 2024.2.165 released – Highlights: style of dropdown filters can be defined in backend, exports for driver analysis / linear regressions improved

Improvement

  • DD-4704 The style of dropdown filters and their labels can be defined in the content backend centrally
  • DD-4718 Export of regression/driver analysis chart: pie and excel export show the percent values of the predictors
  • DD-4719 Export of regression/driver analysis chart: pie shows the pie chart as in the dashboard
  • DD-4720 Export of regression/driver analysis chart: column shows the column chart as in the dashboard
  • DD-4724 Regression / driver analysis: relative importance is limited to 20 predictors

Bug

  • DD-2301 Report editor tab does not have a border anymore
  • DD-4656 At the end of the preview columns in datasources, the navigation arrow is disabled
  • DD-4658 PPTX export: axes are exported in the same way as defined in the chart settings (all, one, or none)
  • DD-4712 Changing chart titles is possible with caching activated
  • DD-4721 Archived reports can be unarchived