🚀 Highlights
Study knowledge stays with the project: The new Insight Repository stores PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents directly inside a project. Admins add a title, description and tags under Documents; project viewers see and download the same collection through their existing access profiles. Successful PowerPoint, PDF and Excel report exports are archived automatically with export tags and a timestamp. REST and MCP support listing, uploading, downloading and deleting documents too.
Projects as portable bundles: A complete project can now be exported under Admin → Projects as a documented ZIP bundle and imported on the same or another DataLion instance. Settings, codebook, reports and tabs with every widget configuration, saved filters including weights, translations and label overrides, theme and color scheme, datasets and media files all travel with it. The versioned JSON-and-CSV format resolves chart types by name on import instead of relying on local database IDs. Users, permissions, invitations, share links, auto-import credentials and linked surveys are deliberately not part of a bundle.
A public study gallery, including the data: In our new gallery, you can open and filter finished dashboards without an account and download the underlying dataset as CSV. Every study is clearly marked as synthetic or open data. Nobody was surveyed for the synthetic examples, and no customer data is used. The two open-data studies, “Germany by region” and “Digital Europe,” use published Eurostat statistics under CC BY 4.0 and show their sources on the page. In short, you can now try the real thing instead of only looking at screenshots.
Bring Tableau workbooks into DataLion: Upload a .twb or .twbx file under Admin → Import Tableau workbook, or drop a .twbx on the start screen. DataLion imports embedded Hyper extracts, builds data tables and a codebook, and recreates Tableau dashboards as report tabs. KPI cards, timelines, bar, column and stacked charts, heatmaps, scatter plots, histograms, waterfalls and gauges are translated from the worksheet structure. A fidelity report says which sheets were imported exactly, approximated or skipped; live connections, legacy .tde extracts and complex multi-source workbooks are called out explicitly as limitations.
✨ What's New
📋 32 survey answer types plus description blocks: The survey builder, mobile runner, validation, resume flow and dataset expansion now also support semantic differentials, swipe cards, map markers, Kano, Van Westendorp price sensitivity, A/B tests, seeded IAT tasks, private file uploads and generated follow-up questions. The Other option with free text works end to end through export. AI-generated follow-ups use the model endpoint configured for the workspace.
📱 Build surveys on a phone: On smaller screens, the questionnaire canvas stays full-width while Questions, Add and Settings open as bottom sheets. A fixed toolbar, mobile lifecycle menu and reliable up/down actions make touch reordering practical.
🏖️ Holiday Concept Lab: A new bilingual template combines an upload, concept ratings, an association task, swipe cards, a destination map, Kano, price sensitivity, randomized promises and a generated follow-up in one complete concept study. Every survey template now also starts with a fitting design and, where appropriate, a conversational one-question-at-a-time presentation.
📊 More chart controls: New options include clustered columns for comparisons such as actual versus budget, a mean-across-items line for polarity and radar charts, configurable choropleth heat colors, and forecast confidence bands at 80, 90, 95 or 99 percent for timelines. KPI charts now honor the configured unit format as well.
🌙 Dark mode for the back office: Each user can choose System, Light or Dark from the account menu. The preference only changes DataLion's administration interface; branded dashboard and report themes remain untouched.
🇪🇸 Spanish and Italian: Both languages are now available throughout the Laravel and Vue interfaces, including registration, billing, administration, charts, exports and BI vocabulary with locale-aware number formatting.
📈 Improvements
🗂️ Report editor as a settings page: Roughly 30 options are now organized into General, Access, Sharing, Tabs, Behaviour, Export and Advanced, with section navigation, explanatory choice cards and a sticky save bar.
↔️ Readable report tabs: Large tab sets keep their natural label width in a horizontally scrollable strip. Edge fades signal hidden content, the active tab is centered and its management menu stays fully visible.
⚡ Fewer page reloads: Renaming a tab, saving a dashboard, editing a title or subtitle, and bookmark actions now update the current page in place and confirm success with a toast.
🎨 Calmer table heatmaps: Scale colors are tinted toward the card surface, while dark cells automatically use readable light text. The same rendering carries into PDF exports and meets WCAG AA contrast even at the ends of the scale.
🔢 KPI tiles use their space: Values now scale with the widget, long numbers no longer clip and lower-priority supporting rows yield first when space gets tight.
🧭 Understandable chart errors: Report readers now see a plain-language explanation and a fix hint instead of raw SQL or PHP error text. Technical details remain available in a collapsible block for administrators only.
💶 Smarter data imports: CSV columns that mix integer- and decimal-formatted monetary amounts are recognized as numeric measures. Very wide multiple-response files can collapse numbered 0/1 columns before creating a MySQL table. The SPSS import wizard now runs on Python 3 and
pyreadstat.
🔐 Security
2026.2.193 further hardens boundaries between workspaces and projects: export downloads are signed and time-limited, share links expose only the intended report, API and MCP permissions are enforced on the server, and login, 2FA, password reset and signup are rate-limited. File and data imports validate paths and queries more strictly, and Content Security Policy can now run in enforce mode.
🐛 Important Bug Fixes
- Weighted charts: Projects with filter-driven weights no longer fail with “Too few parameters.”
- Data tables: Data table charts render again instead of failing on a stale internal reference.
- Saved layouts: A newly saved layout reliably replaces an older local browser copy.
- Date picker: After an AJAX update, the button shows the range and preset you just selected.
- Waterfall colors: Positive and negative bars once again use their per-chart configured colors.
- Advanced survey questions: Follow-ups receive their source answer; IAT, semantic differential, swipe-card and concept-test interactions now behave as their labels promise.
- Incompatible chart types: Instead of an empty widget or PHP notice, DataLion explains when data is missing or a chart needs more variables.
Enjoy DataLion 2026.2.193. As always, we would love to hear what you think, and which older project you will put into a portable bundle first.