What's new in Yellowfin 9.3
See how Yellowfin 9.3 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
Make it yours effortlessly
Bring your design language to your dashboards easily with refreshed Text and Image Widgets, and a brand new Image Manager. All in a familiar user interface.
Embed exactly what you want
Assemble the best analytical experience with our enhanced JavaScript API - enabling your product teams to choose the right level of interactivity and even embed A.I. capabilities. Create and administer rich application experiences that are automated and scalable with new REST API functions.
Keep your teams on the same page
Have the right information reach the right people with our new scheduled broadcasts for dashboards. Share pixel-perfect representations of your dashboards in PDF.
Yellowfin 9.3 Overview
Check out the latest enhancements and see them in action.
All Features
Dashboard Broadcasting
Schedule and distribute dashboards to your entire organization
Enhanced Image Widget
Drop images directly onto the canvas
Enhanced Text Widget
Text writing gets a makeover
Image Manager
Powerful image management
Improved Filter Bookmarks
Bring your dashboard filter bookmarks anywhere
Export to PDF improvements
Render your pixel-perfect dashboards into PDF
Dashboard Tab Menu improvements
Better menus within reach
Assisted Insights in JavaScript API
Utilize AI in your embedded dashboards
Horizontal Alignment for Numeric Display Charts
Let us help you align those KPIs
Image Link Formatter
Display visual images within your tabular reports
New Positioning Options for Report Totals
Left, right, top, bottom. Your choice.
Colours for Chart Trim Display
Trim and color at the same time
Enhanced Text Widget Parameters
Build dynamic narratives for your charts
Enhanced Drill Through
Additional drill options for more use cases
Toggle Minimum / Maximum Values in Filters
Show / Hide minimum and maximum values in your filters
Toggle Report Names in Dashboards
Increased control over report names on dashboards
New dashboard interactions in JavaScript API
Do more with your embedded analytics
New Loaders in JavaScript API
Create and load content the way you want, faster
Stylesheet improvements
Faster white-labelling across the suite
Admin Mode in REST API
Smoother upgrades with zero-downtime
REST API improvements
Increased control over administration, users and content
Branded Broadcast Links
Every client organization gets their own branded broadcasting link
Logging improvements
Making audits and activity tracking simple
Decimal and Thousand Separator Improvements
Localize the display of your metrics
Password Expiry and Reminders
Apply password expiration best practice
IFrame and Application Integration Improvements
Blend different approaches for embedded analytics
Single Sign On improvements
Additional options for Single Sign On
In more detail...
Dashboard Broadcasting
Just like reports, you can now schedule and broadcast dashboards as a link or PDF. Improvements include additional options for scheduling granularity.
Enhanced Image Widget
You can now search for images and add them directly onto the dashboard. Images on the canvas can also be replaced in-line while retaining widget properties including opacity, positioning, dimensions and more.
Enhanced Text Widget
Text Widgets have been refreshed with a new inline text editor, providing a much smoother experience for editing and formatting text. Improvements include new keyboard shortcuts for quicker edits.
Image Manager
A brand new image manager with improved search performance now allows you to apply new sorting options (newest, oldest, alphabetical) and also search for your uploaded images only. Improvements include the ability to tag uploaded images as corporate images which are only visible to users with appropriate roles.
Improved Filter Bookmarks
Default filter bookmarks on dashboards are now retained when dashboards are edited or imported into other Yellowfin deployments.
Export to PDF improvements
Export to PDF for dashboards has been enhanced to support both canvas and preset layouts, providing a full rendering of the dashboard including visual representations for JavaScript charts and Code Mode objects.
Dashboard Tab Menu improvements
Dashboard Tab menu has been modified to only expand on a click. Improvements include adding Export to Files capability to this menu for dashboards in both native Yellowfin and embedded scenarios via JavaScript API.
Assisted Insights in
JavaScript API
Assisted Insights are now enabled for dashboards embedded with JavaScript API.
Horizontal Alignment for Numeric Display Charts
You can now apply left or right alignment to Numeric Display Charts, enabling greater control over spacing when designing canvas reports and dashboards.
Image Link Formatter
The new Image Link Formatter enables you to immediately display image URLs as visual images inline within the tabular report.
New Positioning Options for Report Totals
Positioning for totals and subtotals in reports have been improved to include top and bottom options for columns, left and right options for rows.
Colours for Chart Trim Display
Trim Display for charts has been improved to allow colour dimensions to be applied.
Enhanced Text Widget Parameters
The new Tablevalue parameter allows you to display specific column and row data values from your tabular reports and retain column formatting in your Text Widgets.
Enhanced Drill Through
Drill Throughs can now receive and pass hardcoded filters when jumping from one report to the next.
Toggle Minimum / Maximum Values in Filters
You can now toggle the appearance of Minimum and Maximum Values in the filter values list.
Toggle Report Names in Dashboards
Report names can now be toggled on or off for both canvas and preset dashboard layouts.
New dashboard interactions in JavaScript API
The enhanced JavaScript API enables you to access every interactive dashboard feature (Drill Throughs, Brushing, Assisted Insights, Export, etc) and also toggle UI interactions for reports.
New Loaders in JavaScript API
New and improved loadReport() and createReportElement() functions now enable you to easily load specific content types (report, charts, canvas) in your embedded deployments.
Stylesheet improvements
New customization options through CSS variables have been introduced to make it much easier and quicker to apply prominent colors across the entire analytics suite.
Admin Mode in REST API
New Admin Mode toggle in REST API enables you to suspend new content creation in your clustered instances and ensure a smooth zero-downtime upgrade.
REST API improvements
New REST API endpoints have been introduced, enabling you to manage user access to client organizations, roles, categories, content including cache management for content translations, retrieving broadcast alerts and much more. Read our release notes for a full list of updates.
Branded Broadcast Links
New configuration options now allow for client organization-specific URLs to be used in Broadcasting.
Logging improvements
Application logging has been enhanced to include identifiers for threads and sessions including code functions.
Decimal and Thousand Separator Improvements
New configuration options for decimal and thousand separators enable you to set regional display preferences based on the specific language of your users.
Password Expiry and Reminders
New configuration options enable you to apply password expiry policies including configurable expiry periods. Passwords approaching expiry dates will receive auto-reminder emails.
IFrame and Application Integration Improvements
IFrame and Application integration can now co-exist in the same session. Improvements also include Multi Tab support for both integration methods and support for fixed-width host applications when embedding through Application integration.
Single Sign On improvements
Single Sign On (SSO) now enables you to programmatically check if an active session already exists within the browser before initiating a new session. Improvements include the ability to silently create sessions with web service tokens via Ajax.
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