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September 22nd, 2014

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The iSEEK team is happy to announce recent enhancements based on user feedback.  This release we focused on enhancing visual functionality and performance, along with a few other improvements.   We think you’ll love how easy it now is to:

  • Select different color templates for your chartsand customize your own color themes
  • Filter and Associate multiple tables and charts with one another
  • Highlight key results in your tables
  • Customize your own Avatar
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Highlights of new iSEEK release

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Thank you for your feedback!

Over 6 stories completed

 

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SHARING DATAVIEWS JUST GOT EASIER!

  • Click the big, new SHARE button
  • Enter the people you want to share the dataview with (emails)
  • Enter a message to appear in the email they receive
  • Share!  That’s it. You’ve now shared data with as many people you want to!
    • Hey, what’s that yellow bubble with the number 2 in it?  That’s the new, easy way for users to “see” that this specific data has been shared, in this case, to 2 users.
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    Select Your Own Chart Themes

    Users can now select their own color themes when creating new charts. This menu can be accessed on the bottom left of the visualizer.

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    Users may also change their entire chart theme for dashboard. Simply click the sprocket and access the color pallete menu to select from a variety of pre-populated themes

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    For example I will select the "Rainbow" color theme.

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    SHARING DASHBOARDS JUST GOT EASIER! ... Hint: It's just like sharing a dataview!

    As part of your dataset, you can now manage the order in which your text values display in tables and charts.

    • Click the big, new SHARE button
    • Enter the people you want to share the dataview with (emails)
    • Enter a message to appear in the email they receive
    • Share!  That’s it. You’ve now shared a dashboard with as many people you want to!
    • Notice the allow recipients to make changes to the dashboard box.  Click that if you want people to be able to change the dashboard.  Leave it uncheck if they can only view what you give them (and you are the only one allowed to change the gadgets on the dashboard).

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    New Dashboard Chart Associations

    As part of a dashboard a user may choose to use a specific chart as an in place "filter", allowing users to toggle selections and change the results of other charts within the dashboard

    • Click the down arrow on the chart you would like to make a "filter"
    • Access the menu called "Change Interaction Mode", and select "Filter Current Dashboard"

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    Once selected, the user can now click an element on the above map to filter the results of other tables and charts. For example I will select California on the above map

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    As we can see the below table is only showing data associated to California. The user can then click the element again to toggle back to a full view.

     

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    Confluence mobile

    Stay productive on the go with a new, super-responsive interface optimised for iOS 5. With Confluence mobile you can:

    • Manage your personal tasks and notifications.
    • Browse popular content, recent blog posts and network activity.
    • Search Confluence for content and people.
    • Like pages, blog posts and comments.
    • Add comments to pages and blog posts.
    • View the profiles of your colleagues. Tap to call, SMS or email them directly from your mobile device.

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    Machine to Machine Connection

    You can not enable the iSEEK API in any dataview to automatically export your data anywhere! This feature is supported by Microsoft Excel as well as other.

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    Customize Your Personal Avatar

    The user interface has been made easier to make it easier to customize your personal Avatar.

    • Simply access your User Profile from the default Avatar on the top right.
    • Select "Change Avatar and use the drag and drop interface or browse for a new Avatar Image.

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    Crop your Avatar image to the desired size and Apply the changes.

     

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    Table sorting and highlighting

    Sortable tables are here! They're colourful and easier to read too.

    • Column sorting
      When viewing a page, click a column header to sort the table by the values in the column.
    • Cell highlighting
      Fill cells, rows and columns with a background colour to highlight important information.

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    Draggable images and macros

    Within the Confluence editor, you can drag and drop images and macros anywhere on the page that you are editing. This feature is supported in the following browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 9.

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    Rich text templates

    The template editor now supports rich text content, just like the page editor. You no longer need to use wiki markup to create and update templates. This means that you can convert an existing page to a template. And it's easy to add form fields, known as variables, to your templates. More...

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    Space archiving

    Do you need to make a space's content less visible, but keep the space available on your Confluence site? Archive it! When a space is archived, the pages and other content do not appear in the Confluence search results, activity streams, or dropdown menus. In the space directory, the archived space will appear on a new archive tab. More...

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    Improved user invitations and signup options

    If you want to invite people to sign up to Confluence, you can email an invitation directly from the Confluence user administration screen. To further encourage people to sign up, the login screen includes a signup option too.

    If you choose to add users manually, Confluence can send them an email message informing them of their new account.

    If you want to allow only people from within your organisation to sign up, use the new domain restriction option. People will only be able to sign up if their email address belongs to one of the domains specified. Confluence will send the person an email message, asking them to click a link to confirm their email address. More...

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    Default space permissions

    Confluence administrators can now set the default permissions that will be applied to new spaces. The default permissions are configurable for groups, and not for individual users or anonymous users. Note that the space permissions scheme remains as flexible as before. Space administrators can change the space permissions at any time, including the anonymous permissions, group permissions and individual user permissions. More...

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    We've also simplified the way you create spaces. The quick 'Add Space' option at the top of the dashboard leads you into the new, simplified dialog for adding global spaces, shown below. Adding a personal space is even simpler.

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    Highlight Key Results In Your Tables

    User can now select a range of values to be highlighted in their table results. Once the table has been constructed simple access the small color wheel icon next to the numeric field of your choice.

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    I will select my Gross Profitability field. Once selected there are several options that can be selected

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    1. No Highlighting: This will keep the column as normal with no changes
    2. Highlight values within a range: Select a range where you would like to see the columns highlighted. Select two colors for a gradient effect or the same color to make the fields more noticeable.
    3. Highlight the top (or bottom) # of records: Highlights the top or bottom number of records specified.
    4. Highlight entire column: This selection allows users to highlight the entire row of data to view all associated data.
    5. Treat highlighted column as a negative: When using the highlighted count, we can see the number of columns highlighted per row and apply a negative value to the selected column. (see highlighted count below)
     


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    Other improvements

    • Removing attachment versions. You can now delete a specific version of an attachment.
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    • Mentions now available via the 'Insert' menu. In Confluence 4.0 we introduced @mentions, a handy way of mentioning someone in a page or comment. Now we have added this user mention option to the editor's 'Insert' menu, to help new users discover this useful feature.
    • Multiple new drafts. You can now have more than one draft of a new page or blog post in the same space. (In earlier versions of Confluence, you could have multiple drafts of existing pages, but only one new draft.)
    • Reduced memory usage by up to 2 MB per plugin. We have improved the implementation of the Atlassian template renderer, reducing memory usage by up to 2 megabytes per plugin, for those plugins that bundle their own Velocity templates.
    • Support for MySQL 5.5. Reminder: We support MySQL 5.5 as well as 5.1. We announced this support with the Confluence 4.2.3 release, and made it applicable to Confluence 4.2 and later.  
    • Session resource management. Confluence now aggressively expires HTTP sessions that appear to come from bots or web crawlers, by lowering the idle timeout for sessions that only perform a single request. This significantly reduces the resource consumption by HTTP sessions on public-facing Confluence servers, or on servers integrated with third-party search appliances. This functionality is supplied by the Atlassian Bot Session Killer plugin, now bundled with Confluence.
    • Faster switching of dashboard tabs. Switching between the activity tabs on the dashboard no longer causes the entire dashboard to reload.

    Highlighted Column Count

    Allows users to create a column that counts the number of columns highlighted by row.

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    Infrastructure changes

    Here are some points of interest for plugin developers.

    • JIRA Portlets gone. We have removed the JIRA Portlet code from Confluence.  We deprecated the use of JIRA portlets in Confluence 4.2 (see the Confluence 4.2 upgrade notes) and the JIRA Portlet plugin is no longer bundled in Confluence 4.3.
    • Improved data storage for plugin developers. In previous versions of Confluence, Bandana was the primary data storage mechanism available to plugin developers. Confluence 4.3 ships with Active Objects, a new ORM (object relational mapping) layer for Atlassian products, implemented as a plugin. It enables easier, faster, and more scalable data access and storage than the existing Bandana and PluginSettings APIs. Active Objects in Confluence is still under rapid development, and is currently used by only a few plugins. If you would like to experiment with it, we would love to hear your feedback.
    • API changes. Please see our guide to preparing for Confluence 4.3.
    • Experimental API for workbox notifications and tasks. Confluence 4.3 introduces the workbox for managing notifications and tasks. We have an experimental API available and we're requesting your feedback! Here is your chance to help us shape the notifications and tasks API. Details are in our guide to preparing for Confluence 4.3.

     

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    Most Recently Added Data Filter

    For users with an incremental datafeed we have implemented a new filter for Most Recently added data. This option controls whether the current dataview includes all records or only the records added in the most recent datafeed. By default all records are shown.

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