We’re excited to announce DataLion 2025.1.182, delivering powerful statistical export capabilities, refined dashboard management, and several performance optimizations that make your data visualization workflow smoother than ever.
📊 Major Feature Addition
Statistical Significance in Excel Exports
- Complete T-Test Export: Bar and column charts with t-test (repeated measures) now export significance information directly to Excel, including asterisks, letters, and column identifiers
- Multi-Group Support: Works seamlessly with both 2-group and 3+ group comparisons, preserving all statistical annotations in your exported reports
🎨 Dashboard & Visualization Improvements
Enhanced Chart Controls
- Timeline Chart Categories: New option to display categories instead of values in timeline charts for clearer categorical data representation
- Polarity Chart Labels: Fixed multi-line item label display issues for better readability in polarity charts
- Rounded Legend Values: Case numbers in weighted timeline charts now display with appropriate rounding (n=xx cases)
User Interface Refinements
- Dashboard Title Editing: Non-admin users can now properly save dashboard and chart titles – a crucial fix for collaborative environments
- Chart Menu Reliability: Resolved widget menu visibility issues that required page reloads
- Special Character Handling: Label updates now correctly preserve special characters like „&“ without HTML encoding artifacts
🔧 System Optimizations
Filter & Target Group Enhancements
- Redesigned Filter Editor: Major reliability improvements to the filter/target group editor, including proper deletion of custom filters
- Empty State UX: Target group creation button now displays even on empty screens for better discoverability
- Smart Report Display: MyReports section now mirrors the exact reports shown in user dropdown menus for consistency
Backend Improvements
- Project Search Optimization: Backend project filtering now searches across all displayed columns for more comprehensive results
- Performance Updates
📝 Additional Enhancements
- Release Log Caching: Start page now caches release logs and highlights new entries for better visibility of updates
- Codebook Validation: Improved codebook checking for missing question IDs
- Timeline Chart Optimization: General performance improvements for timeline chart rendering
For Administrators
- Backend search functionality provides more intuitive filtering across all project attributes
- Non-admin permission issues have been resolved for common editing tasks
This release strengthens DataLion’s statistical analysis capabilities while addressing key usability concerns raised by our community. The ability to export complete significance information to Excel represents a major workflow improvement for teams conducting repeated measures analyses.
Thank you for your continued partnership in making DataLion better!