What's new in Yellowfin 9.2
See how Yellowfin 9.2 provides business users with unique ways to engage with and act on their data, and addresses the needs of data analysts and developers who want to build and deploy amazing analytical experiences.
New Feature Highlights
Discover profound shifts in your data
Data discovery does not need to be slow and costly. Monitor and glean insights from enduring shifts in your business data automatically with Step Change Signals.
Get the full experience
Experience your beautiful dashboards and presentations in greater detail and automatically hide distractions including toolbars, headers and footers with Full-Screen Mode.
Embed and extend with one familiar language
Embed and apply fine-grain control over your analytic content with our all-new JavaScript API. Utilize the same API in Dashboard Code Mode to extend and customize your dashboards.
Yellowfin 9.2 Overview
Check out the latest enhancements and see them in action.
All Features
JavaScript API
Embed and extend with the same APIs
REST API
Automate unique data experiences
Usage across Multiple Tabs
Do more across multiple browser tabs and windows
Improved Menu for Timeline Event Cards
Open content into multiple browser tabs
Scheduled Historic Runs
Keep track of every run
Global Axis Formatting
Do it once for all charts
Associated Reports
Associated reports list gets a revamp
Enhanced Canvas Widgets
Every widget is now actionable
New Action Events
Additional events for dashboard actions
Toggle Widget Menu
Decide when widget menus should appear
Sort Dashboard Report Columns
Flexibly sort your dashboard metrics
Toggle Dashboard Filter Reset
Increased control over dashboard filter resets
Improved Open Report Workflow
Retain context when opening reports from dashboards
Improved Filter Entry Styles
Do more with your dashboard filters
Default Filter Bookmarks
Save your favorite combinations and navigate to them quickly
Full-Screen Mode
Your dashboards and presentations without distractions
New Present Toolbar
Additional options for managing Presentations
Step Change Signals
Be alerted to underlying shifts in your data
Save to Disk Broadcast
Schedule and distribute reports to any server
Calculated Field Descriptions
Describe what your derived fields mean
Calculated Field Datatype
Define what it is upfront
Dynamic Filter Values
Ensuring everyone sees data
Edit Charts from Report Canvas
Quicker edits within reach
Broadcast Recipients and Status
Let us help you find out who didn’t get it
Preview and Active Row Limits
Increased control over report performance
In more detail...
JavaScript API
The new JavaScript API becomes generally available. Rich in features, the API contains an updated user interface and a richer set of functions and events. You can use the same JavaScript API when embedding Yellowfin content or within Yellowfin in Dashboard Code Mode.
REST API
The new REST API provides you the support to automate back-end processes, perform administrative tasks and manage content programmatically. Importantly, the REST API also provides access to Yellowfin content for developers, enabling them to build custom turn-key experiences incorporating Yellowfin Signals, Stories, Notifications and more.
Usage across Multiple Tabs
New configuration functionality has been added to allow you to use Yellowfin across multiple tabs or windows of the same browser. As part of this enhancement, safety checks have been put into place to protect against data corruption and prevents the same content from being edited in multiple tabs concurrently.
Improved Menu for Timeline Event Cards
Timeline event cards that mention analytic content or contain links now have a menu icon. This menu offers you options to open the content in the same or separate browser tabs.
Scheduled Historic Runs
You can now view every historic run of scheduled tasks within the Schedule Management page.
Global Axis Formatting
You can now specify the Axis Formatting column setting for charts at the admin configuration level. As part of this enhancement, you can choose if numeric axis units will be summarized or define custom formatting. This setting will be applied in charts if Axis Formatting is set to ‘Default’.
Associated Reports
Associated Reports functionality has been refreshed for Dashboards. You can now add reports as links in your dashboards rather displaying full reports, into both canvas and global containers.
Enhanced Canvas Widgets
Action Button functionality has been added to every dashboard canvas widget, making any dashboard widget actionable — meaning an event can be triggered when a widget is clicked. The types of events include: navigating to specific sub tabs, resetting dashboards or filters, jumping to a report or even an external link.
New Action Events
New events have been introduced for action buttons and all other dashboard widgets. These include: ‘Go to URL’ that navigates to an external page, and ‘Go to Sub Tab’ that navigates to any sub tab or slide within dashboards and presentations respectively.
Toggle Widget Menu
New settings have been added to control the visibility of widget menus. These can be set to always show the menus, never show them, or only show them when a user hovers on them.
Sort Dashboard Report Columns
Tabular report columns can now be sorted in ascending or descending order on published dashboards.
Toggle Dashboard Filter Reset
The reset button for dashboard filters can now be toggled to either reset filters only or all dashboard interactions including drills, sorting, chart brushing, date sliders and series selections.
Improved Open Report Workflow
Filter values applied on a dashboard are retained when opening a report from it. Improvements here include new navigational buttons to return you to the dashboard in a single click.
Improved Filter Entry Styles
You can now change the display style of filters within a dashboard. This allows the entry style to be changed to checkboxes, lists, pop ups, dropdowns or radio buttons.
Default Filter Bookmarks
You can now save personalized default filter bookmarks that will automatically be applied to the dashboard when first loaded, or if the filters are reset.
Full-Screen Mode
Published Dashboards and Presentations can now be opened in full screens — showing just the content and hiding all toolbars.
New Present Toolbar
A new toolbar has been added to published Presentations, showing presentation viewers including allowing you to configure user access and share the presentation.
Step Change Signals
Step Change Signals are now generally available within the outliers detection group for Signals.
Save to Disk Broadcast
A new Broadcast schedule type, ‘Save to Disk’, has been introduced, allowing you to schedule reports to be saved onto a local server path.
Calculated Field Descriptions
A new column formatting setting has been provided for calculated fields that allows you to clearly describe the field’s purpose and content to aid report authors.
Calculated Field Datatype
You can now define the datatype of a calculated field’s resulting column upfront such as Numeric, Boolean, Text or Date. As part of this enhancement, the engine will not perform a validation test. The option to allow the engine to determine the datatype is also still possible by choosing the Auto Detect option.
Dynamic Filter Values
A new setting has been introduced for dimension filters in reports where the first accessible value is automatically selected if you do not have access to the default value — particularly useful for scenarios where access filter restrictions are applied.
Edit Charts from Report Canvas
You can now edit a specific chart from a report’s design canvas with a single click.
