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We’re excited to announce the latest DataLion release, featuring important improvements to enhance your data analysis experience and workflow efficiency.

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

Export Enhancements

• Streamlined PDF Dashboard Export: PDF exports now exclude navigation elements, creating cleaner and more focused documents for sharing
• Tables as Combined Charts: Fixed functionality for tables displayed as separate combined charts in a single widget

Performance Optimizations

• Report & Tab Handling: Implemented backend improvements for more robust and performant report/tab management (no visible changes, but you may notice the difference in performance and stability)
• Database Query Optimization: Enhanced data queries for faster database performance, reducing wait times for complex analyses

Technical Improvements

• CSV Import Enhancement: Now automatically removes Windows line breaks on CSV import for more consistent data processing (before, when the optional „remove windows line break“ was unchecked, the last column of your data may have problems in queries)

This release continues our commitment to improving DataLion’s performance and usability. We appreciate your feedback as you explore these enhancements.

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.

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

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

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

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

New Feature

• DD-4754 Update management of custom filters; custom filters are flagged now depending on their status

Improvement

• DD-4779 Excel export: allows using media files

Bug

• DD-4774 Mouseover in timeline charts are fixed

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

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

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