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Release History
Jan 2023 (6 items) – 41 total (ver 1.5.39)
Cross-component filtering (Dynamic filters)
You can now connect components such that clicking on a segment of a pie chart component can filter the data shown in a grid component. This makes it even easier for a user to filter the data they are viewing or drill into it by simply clicking on a component on the screen.
Grid component – emphasize filtering icon in the column header
We increased the font size and emboldened the column which is being filtered in the grid to make it easier to distinguish which columns are being filtered.
Grid component – added support for {webURL} to the HTML column template
If you add columns to the grid to accomplish things like adding a link to open a form in a new tab, you can now use the {webURL} token instead of hardcoding the URL of your site. This makes it easier to move an app based on Sintel BI from test to live as you won’t need to worry about the change in the URL, it will update automatically.
Grid component – Pill column
You now have the ability to import values from the Sintel Forms Status column and in doing so the Sintel Forms Status values and colours are auto-imported. This is a huge timesaver!
Grid component – Wrap text in column headers
We have added an option to enable you to wrap text in column headers which is especially useful if you are trying to display a lot of columns in the grid component.
Custom apps – load apps in standalone mode
We have added the option so that users can load apps in standalone mode.
Dec 2022 (0 items)
No Release
Reviewing backlog and prioritising
Nov 2022 (7 items) (ver 1.5.15)
Dropdown filter – Text field – added option to set a custom default value
We have added an option to the Dropdown filter component for text fields so that it allows you to specify a custom default value from a list.
SharePoint connector – exclude folders by default
We have added a new setting to SharePoint connectors called Exclude folders. When enabled, the data source should return list items only, folders are skipped.
Grid component – new option to change the location of the context menu
A context menu appears if you enable editing or deleting on the grid component. If one of those options is enabled you will see a new setting control called Context Menu Order, with default value 2 which means that the context menu will appear as the second column in the grid component.
You can change it to any position by changing the value and if you wish to hide it you can set it to 0.
See app usage dialogue
We have added a sites used count similar to the dashboard count aggregate so you know how many sites you are using.
Grid – Option to enable/disable searching on hidden columns
A new setting has been added to the grid component – ‘Search hidden columns’. The default value is set to false. This option only appears Allow searching is enabled.
Grid- Coloring cells based on the value
Accumulation chart – specify the order of elements in a chart
In order to specify the order of elements in the chart: Dashboard designer → Pie Chart → Settings → Assign Data → Series settings →<series name> – sorting → Add → Add your data in the order you wish it to appear
Oct 2022 (0 items)
No Release
Reviewing backlog and prioritising
Sep 2022 (7 items) (ver 1.5.12)
New “Refresh data” button on dashboards
We have added a button to the top bar on dashboards so that users can refresh data manually if needed.
New data source option (any site in the tenant)
You can now create a data source using any list from any site within the current tenant. This permits you to build dashboards using data stored on other sites.
Sintel App templates now include permissions
When you create an app template you can now include permissions. Both dashboards and navigation entries support permissions so if your app uses custom groups or has permissions applied to dashboards or navigation items using groups, then these can be included in the app template. Any groups required by the app will be created as part of the app import process. This feature makes moving an app from test to production much easier as the import process will create any of the SharePoint groups you need.
Sintel BI App Hub
This new feature enables customers to create an App Hub which is a central location to access all the apps that have been created in their environment. All sites that have Sintel BI added are automatically added to the App Hub and when an app is ready for use it can be published which makes it visible to users. Each app in the App Hub has a configurable title, colour, and icon. Within the App Hub users can search for apps and add specific apps to their favorites. The favoriting mechanism leverages the out-of-the-box favourite sites mechanism available in M365.
Filter component update
The Filter components now display data from lists based on the default list view. If certain items are excluded from the default list view then they won’t appear in the filter components.
Grid control date filtering improvement
Previously when filtering by a date multiple entries could be shown for a date if multiple items contained that date. This has been updated such that only 1 filter option is shown per date i.e. duplicate dates are no longer shown.
New “Show usage” screen
Sintel BI -> Settings -> My License -> Show usage. This new screen will display all the sites in the tenant where Sintel BI is in use including the number of dashboards in each site. The screen permits the user to check all sites to verify if an upgrade is available for them and to update all sites they have access to. The screen is accessible from any site in which Sintel BI is in use which makes it very easy for an admin to upgrade all sites across the environment.
Aug 2022 (3 items) (ver 1.4.28)
Settings – Page redesigned
The settings screen has been redesigned to improve its look and ease of use.
Orphaned Column error message improved
In the case of an orphaned lookup list, an error message is now displayed with the name of the look-up column.
Demo Dashboard
When someone newly installs Sintel BI, a single demo dashboard is included. Users can now view and play around with a preconfigured dashboard to help them understand how the app works. This dashboard is also easily deleted if the user does not need it anymore.
Jul 2022 (4 items) (ver 1.4.24)
Navigation – Multilevel
There is now multilevel navigation so that items can be grouped for users who add multiple links to the navigation.
You now simply add a heading such as ‘dashboards’ and you drop your dashboards under the heading.
When you hover over the heading on the navigation, the dashboard options will then appear.
Navigation – Minimal
You can now enable a compact variation of the navigation menu which only displays the icons.
Navigation – Reorder of creation navigation
When you are creating a dashboard the left navigation menu has been reordered. They are now displayed in the following order: Getting started, Data Sources, Dashboards and all three items can be hidden via the settings page.
Data Source – View/Edit source of a data source
There is a new option to enable users to view and edit data within the data source menu.
Jun 2022 (2 items) (ver 1.4.10)
Navigation – Link Names
Full link names are now displayed when the user hovers over the link on the navigation.
Map Component
We have added two kinds of maps:
Bubble maps – enable the user to visualise quantative values using different-sized bubbles on a map.
Choropleth maps – allow the user to show quantitative values based of of a colour scale.
Hovering over the map sections displayed further details about the data.
May 2022 (7 items) (ver 1.4.1)
Grid – Remove/ Add all columns
An option has been added to remove/ add all visible columns to a grid in one go. This improves how quickly you can add the right columns to your grid.
Grid – Default columns visible improved
Previously when a user added data to a grid, all columns from the list were added to the grid by default. This created a cluttered default grid. Now the columns visible on the grid are set to a limit of 20 by default, making it easier for the user to pick and choose which columns they want to be visible.
New date formatting for charts
It is possible to display date columns as values on charts in a few different ways i.e. Year, Month, Day of the week.
A new option was requested and that was to show the date on a char as: “Month, Year” for example “May 2022”.
Data Source storage improvements
We adjusted how data sources were stored. There is now common storage for data sources such that only a single copy of each data source is stored.
Navigation – Improvements to Hiding
There is a setting available to hide the left navigation panel. We have made improvements so that the user doesn’t have to refresh the page to see if they have applied this setting.
Dashboard Viewer – Empty Dashboard information
If a dashboard is empty, text and an icon are now displayed to inform the user that nothing has been added to the dashboard.
Dashboard Designer – Refresh data sources option
When we design a dashboard it often happens that we are missing a data source. It is now easier to add a new data source and connect it without a need to refresh the dashboard. Next to the data source dropdown, there is a link to open the data sources screen in a new tab and a button to refresh data sources.
Apr 2022 (0 items)
No Release
Reviewing backlog and prioritising
Mar 2022 (5 items) (ver 1.2.8)
Grid Component – New delete confirmation modal
When deleting a list item via the grid component a new confirmation modal is shown to confirm the deletion.
Filter Component Settings – show only data sources that are used on a dashboard
All of the filter components have the DataSource property and previously all of the data sources were listed. With this update, only those data sources which are assigned to at least one component are listed.
Grid – show dates based on the site regional setting
All the dates shown on the grid control now inherit the regional settings of the site in which the grid control is used. The only exception to this is when a user overrides those settings with personal time settings.
New Default theme options
We have added a number of default themes to enable customers to quickly change the branding applied to apps built with Sintel BI.
Accumulation charts – change the default size of the component
Previously when adding the accumulation chart to a dashboard, it displayed as 4×4 by default, we have changed this default size to 8×8.