Bold BI v6.18 Release Highlights for Self-Hosting and Embedding

Get ready to elevate your data analytics journey! We’re thrilled to announce the latest milestone in our expedition—Bold BI^® v6.18. This release is designed to improve your self-hosting and embedding experience, bringing new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for Windows, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, and Azure users.

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We’ll examine the main changes of this release in this blog:

• Improvements
• Bug fixes
• Breaking changes

Improvements

Data source improvements

• We have integrated custom attribute and dashboard parameter support for command timeouts and the max rows property in data source connection properties.
  

• In the edit connection, you can now highlight empty fields without letting the user select the database.

ID improvement

Configure Microsoft 365 email settings with OAuth authentication in UMS in on-premise deployments.

Widget improvements

• Maintain the expanded nodes when exporting a pivot grid to Excel.
• Configure the dashboard parameters in the chart axis range customization dialog.
• Customize the scatter chart’s x-axis range.

Designer improvement

Export grid and card widgets as PDFs in multiple pages.

Bug Fixes

ID

• You can now open UMS links in a new tab when the EnableSameTabLinkTarget value is false in on-premise deployments.
• Resolved the URL redirection issue occurring after logging in with JWT in on-premise deployments.
• Fixed the issue where Docker environments’ branding logos were not being updated during auto-deployment in on-premise deployments.

Widgets

• Included the hidden column in CSV exporting.
• Fixed the card widget flashing issue while enabling the auto-refresh.
• Fixed the issue where bar charts displayed an unwanted scrollbar when large data was configured.
• Fixed the heatmap tooltip UX glitch in the multitab dashboard.
• Fixed the unwanted space in the chart widget’s legend with the dropdown icon on maximize.
• Fixed the UX glitch in the image widget on initial rendering.
• Fixed the data label positioning issue in 100% stacked charts.
• Fixed the summary row not included in Excel export.
• Handled the errors in KPI and number card image configuration.

Designer

• Fixed the issue where the relative date filter was not saved in the date picker when the data cache was enabled.
• Fixed the issue of null dates in the dashboard parameter when using the UK data language.
• Fixed the issue where the widget took a long time to load when filtering with multiple list box widgets.
• Fixed the 502 Bad Gateway error issue when using a custom attribute and dashboard parameter in a web data source.
• Fixed the issue with the filtering of date values in the “view underlying data” section.
• Fixed the issue of data source changes not being reflected when downloading the dashboard.
• Resolved the issue where URL linking did not work when using another URL as the value.
• Resolved the issue with dashboard parameters not retaining the date format according to the time zone.
• Resolved the issue where the background color of the SSAS connection field was different on the design canvas.
• Fixed the issue where the start range parameter value dids not work in the measure formatting window.

Data sources

• Improved the error message while connecting to an empty collection in MongoDB Connector.
• Resolved an issue in which the Excel file could not be connected if it contained a hyperlink value in a column.
• Resolved the Refresh Failed error when publishing the dashboard to another site.
• Resolved the issue where the Alias name was not changed, and an error that occured on unhiding columns in the Query Designer page.
• Resolved the issue of being unable to join a shared table if the web API live data source was used with basic authentication.
• Resolved the issue in which joined tables were lost when canceling the reconnection to the data source.
• Fixed the issue of incorrect values for the Expression column calculation in Google Big Query.
• Resolved the error that throws “INVALID ARGUMENT” when dividing two expressions in Google Big Query.
• Resolved the data retrieval error when using the IF expression in Google Big Query.
• Resolved the grid widget paging count issue while using the Web API live data source.
• Resolved the issue where the user filter showed all data for users in the group-level filters.
• Added UUID format support in MongoDB Connector.
• The zero-data-retrieved issue was resolved. It occurs randomly in live web API data sources when editing the data source from the server side.
• Resolved data retrieval error while binding calculated column/expression field in pie chart.
• Resolved the issue when applying data sampling in Azure Data Explorer.
• Resolved the issue where the dashboard and data source were not rendering properly after upgrading from build 5.3 to the latest.
• Resolved the issue of being unable to connect to the shared table in the web API live mode data source.
• Fixed the issue of being unable to create the CHAR expression in Snowflake.
• Fixed the issue in which the string expression CHAR was not working as expected in MYSQL IMDb.
• Resolved the issue in which the TOP N filter caused a data retrieval issue in Google Big Query.
• Added limitation of cross-JOIN support in Azure Data Explorer.
• Fixed the issue of the summary row not showing in the grid widget when using the web API live data source.

Embedding

• Fixed the issue in the cloud environment where font customization support was not applied to the exporting in JS-based embedding.
• Valid error message now shows when a dashboardId is passed in the datasourceId parameter in JS-based data source embedding.
• A valid error message now shows when embedding the widget without detail in JS-based embedding.
• Fixed the issue in which the saved view name was not showing in the filterOverview panel in JS-based embedding.

Server

• Fixed the issue of getting a group list in the v5.0 version of REST API when the site was deployed in PostgreSQL.
• Fixed the issue in which longer user email addresses were not fully visible in the profile dialog.
• Fixed the inconsistency in schedule editing by restricting conversion of alert schedules to normal export schedules.
• Fixed issue in fetching published items with REST API when site deployed with MySQL and MSSQL in on-premise deployments.
• Fixed the issue in which multiple expressions could not be added in the Data Alert Schedule Email Editor dialog.
• Fixed the issue in which the validation message was not hidden when we inserted the expression in the scheduled email subject.
• Fixed the issue in which attachments were being sent as corrupted when the recipient had an external domain in on-premise deployments.

Breaking changes

Widget

• We have removed the FIPS standards from the map widget shape file mapping as they conflict with the ISO standards.

We believe these updates will improve your user experience and streamline your workflow. For more details, please visit our release page. If you have any questions, please contact us through the Bold BI^® website. If you’re new to Bold BI, you can sign up for a free trial on our website.