🎁2024 Releases
December 12, 2024 - v137
New Features 🎉
📊 Embedded Self-service dashboards
Toucan Unveils Its First Embedded Self-Service Dashboard!
We’re thrilled to introduce the Self-Service Dashboard, now available for seamless integration into your software. Empower your users to take control of their insights with a fully customizable experience—all directly within your platform.
With the embedded Dashboard Builder, your end-users can:
Easily personalize their dashboards by selecting charts from a library or removing those they don’t need.
Rearrange and resize charts to create a layout that perfectly fits their needs.
Save and publish their changes with a single click for a smooth, hassle-free experience.
Elevate user empowerment with this intuitive and game-changing feature!
More information is available in the online documentation here.
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Also please note this is a paid feature.
Improvements 🆙
Filter dataset
Filter datasetTo ease your app maintenance and evolutions, we have made it possible to change the filter dataset so that you can change the filter, and the application is automatically made on the datasets filtered by the filter.
👥 Real-Time Collaboration Made Easy: No More Draft Issues!
The Draft mode for Home and Stories is now a thing of the past! Previously, personal drafts caused issues when multiple App Builders worked simultaneously on the same Home or Story, leading to potential synchronization conflicts.
Now, collaboration is significantly enhanced with a warning system that alerts App Builders in real-time, ensuring seamless teamwork and avoiding editing overlaps.
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Bug Fixes 🐛
We fixed:
V137 bug fixes
Charts: Sometimes changing dataset was not possible with versuschart
Datahub:
Azure connector: query interpolations was replacing '%' with '%%'.
Youprep: Conditional column was not working properly when using a left join, which could cause some fields to be missing
Athena: sometimes pagination was not working due a some specific configuration settings
User Management:
The activation link email that occasionally caused errors.
Enhanced user experience by displaying clearer error messages when users are disconnected due to inactivity.
Fixed the display of user attributes in the dedicated panel for improved clarity.
November 25, 2024 - v136
New Features 🎉
📒 New Chart Design Available
The new chart design is now live, bringing a fresh look and enhanced functionality to bar, line, barline, and stacked bar charts. This update aims to improve usability and provide a more intuitive experience for users, with interactive features and streamlined editing options.
What’s new:
Interactive Legend with Filterable Checkboxes Users can now toggle data series visibility directly from the legend using checkboxes, making it easier to customize views on the fly.
Consistent Data Labels on Hover Data labels now appear uniformly across all chart types when hovering on desktop and with a tap on mobile, providing clearer, more consistent insights.
Enhanced Tick Management & Zoom Tool Improved axis tick management provides a cleaner look, while the new zoom tool allows for better exploration of dense data sets.
Streamlined Smart Editor Options The smart editor has been simplified with reduced configuration options, creating a more intuitive editing experience.
Known Exclusions in This Release:
Mobile-Specific Behavior: Mobile functionality for data labels and legends is not yet included.
Cross-Filters: Cross-filtering across charts is planned for a future update.
Drill-Downs: Drill-down capabilities are not included in this release.
Please note that our new charts have been introduced alongside their older versions. While some low-usage features have been deprecated, the older charts will continue to be maintained but will no longer receive additional features. This ensures you can choose when to transition to the redesigned charts at your own pace.
Where to access: Access is enabled for all V3 Toucan Users. The new chart types can be selected from the dropdown menu in the smart editor, where they are highlighted with a NEW✨ icon.
Recap:
All V3 users can access the new chart designs.
Included in the release
Interactive legend (desktop)
✅
Consistent data labels (desktop)
✅
Zoom tool
✅
Enhanced tick management
✅
Streamlined smart editor
✅
Interactive legend (mobile)
❌
Consistent data labels (mobile)
❌
Crossfilters
❌
Drill-downs
❌
Improvements 🆙
🔱 Hybrid Pipelines
A few months ago, we introduced the ability to mix execution across different engines (see our release announcement here). Building on this, we’re now adding enhanced visual guidance to clearly indicate which engine is running your data pipeline. This feature provides valuable insights into whether performance is influenced by your data source or Toucan’s data execution services.
💻 Enhanced design in Youprep
We’ve redesigned the right-hand panel in YouPrep, where your data is displayed, to ensure a more cohesive look with the overall design of our product. While the functionality remains unchanged, we’ve updated the icons and enhanced the data table’s appearance for a cleaner and more modern experience.
🏗️ Variables management
We have simplified the input field for adding a default staging value in user variables. This change makes it less confusing for app builders, as it now uses a different input field than the one for external variables.
Bug Fixes 🐛
We fixed
V136 bug fixes
Datahub:
Mongo connector: query type was not properly saved
Refresh data: Save memory during refresh to enhance performance
Filter step: It was sometimes not possible to select boolean filters with 0 as value
Filters: the wording wasn’t correct when crossfilters were being selected/unselected by user
November 14, 2024 - v135
New Features 🎉
📒 No code reference to variables in the narrative
No code reference to variables is here! Personalize your story with variables in the narrative. Simply type the "/" character to bring up a menu with all the variables you've set up from the 'Variable Management' menu. No more need to use complex variable syntax to tell personalized stories to your audience at scale!
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
📃 Pagination Management in HTTP Connector
Our HTTP connector is a powerful tool for integrating with various online services, many of which use pagination to return data in segments. We’re excited to introduce pagination management in the connector, giving you four different pagination options to ensure seamless retrieval of complete data for any configured query within Toucan. This new feature makes it easy to manage large datasets and ensures you capture all results with precision.
More in our documentation here.
Improvements 🆙
📒 New 'everyone' option for the self-service PDF report
Create a PDF report and share it with all users of an application in one click. The new 'everyone' sharing option lets you quickly share your report with all users, giving them view or edit access.
The self-service PDF report feature is currently in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Bug Fixes 🐛
We fixed:
V135 bug fixes
Data
Difference in the ability to extract a date substring between the in-memory engine and the data refresh engine
In some conditions, Fill null value was not working
The limit date was not working with all-time variable
The date filter was not applied correctly when landing on the page
Compute evolution was not working properly when using Athena connector
Application
The default value was replacing the value set up in the filter when sharing the URL
Charts
It’s now possible to download the whole table chart dataset with a limit of 10K rows
Stories with two charts and a table chart as the second can now be edited without resetting changes made on the first chart
Group labels are now displayed correctly
Sorting on tile score card wasn’t working in some condition
Filters
If filters contain no value, we’ll now display an explicit error message
The screen freezes after selecting a filter with many values
October 23rd, 2024 - v134
We are shipping our v133 and v134 in the same release
New Features 🎉
📊 New Analytics Dashboards
Easily track user activity and app adoption with our newly integrated Analytics Dashboards, now accessible directly from your Administration menu. These three powerful dashboards provide insights into active users, user engagement, and retention rates, helping you make data-driven decisions to optimize your apps.
This feature is currently available in beta and free for all customers. After the beta period, it will transition to a paid feature—please check with your Customer Success Manager to see if it’s included in your plan.
Improvements 🆙
📙 PDF Report duplication
It is now possible to duplicate a PDF report with one click!
Custom Header Name Support for Token Authentication
You can now customize the header name for the custom_token_server method in our HTTP API connector using the new token_header_name option. This feature gives you more flexibility when integrating with APIs that require a custom header to send the authentication token, ensuring smoother and more secure API connections.
Bug Fixes 🐛
We fixed:
V134 bug fixes
Charts
Table chart: The header search only takes into account the count of the first selection during a crossfilter.
Text tile: Display all text` not working
Bar chart: Legend displays the format Fri Jan 01 2010 00:00:00 despite a Custom date tick format configured
Heatmap: Custom sort is not saved
Value tile: Templating not working in Variation
Waterfall chart: scrolling over a waterfall chart in a dashboard isn’t working well
Line chart: Y axis baseline Use a column of current dataset doesn't work
Sentiments: Using the ‘has multiple columns’ or ‘depends on another column’ sentiments does not display the list of columns on the bound
Application
The application was not synced between two tabs in the browser.
Under certain conditions, the application's configuration failed to save.
The selected app theme colors didn’t load immediately.
The visibility settings were not correctly applied to self-service PDF reports.
It was impossible to modify a LinkTo when a complex sentiment was set in a story.
Embed
The preview of an image to embed didn’t work when using custom height and width values.
Connectors
HTTP API: Status route interpolates variables the same way as query routes
BigQuery: Faster getmodel implementation
BigQuery: Enforce int and float dtypes
Youprep
Default aggregation in addTotals
Allow typing arbitrary column
Allow typing column in the filter
Display all errors coming from the backend
Variables management
variables using the jinja syntax {{}} templates containing parentheses or curly braces are not limited to output strings anymore
Relative date range dates are string and can be variable
August 21, 2024 - v132
We are thrilled to announce this latest release with exciting new features!
Releases will be paused during some time to work on our back-end architecture paving the way to exciting new features.
Note that all features below are out in Beta so please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to have them available.
New Features 🎉
Streamlined and explicit variable management for a personalized storytelling experience
Data personalization has never been easier. To reduce complexity and improve usability, you will now:
Have access to a new interface within the Toucan Studio to centralize all variables
Be able to simulate user context by adding default values to these variables without writing a single line of code. Those default values are for now available in YouPrep steps dropdown.
This first release includes user, external, and filter variables.
More to come on variable management in Toucan soon!
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
User Properties Management 👤
Data and app personalization has never been easier. To reduce complexity and improve usability, you will now have access to a new interface within the Toucan Administration area to declare all your user properties which can then be used to variabilize all your applications thanks to the new variable management feature.
This first release includes user, external, and filter variables.
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Chart color customization 🎨
We’re thrilled to announce our first big step forward in more customization around charts & layouts. It’s our foundation for future improvements.
We offer you a complete no-code experience to customize colors very precisely by charts, by labels, and even by customizing a lot of different series, all without technical knowledge.
Thanks to a new “Style” tab, you can customize the charts' colors specifically for a story or the home without impacting other charts for more data storytelling.
The input colors will be dynamic according to your chart and its configuration.
You will also have even more control thanks to the “Advanced” mode where you can find:
Exhaustive color series: allows you to precisely personalize colors for many series.
Color labels: allows you to specify a color for a given label
For more “how to” and usage, please refer to the documentation.
As we were saying in the introduction, this interface is thought to welcome new customization very soon, stay tuned for more enhancements regarding charts in the coming months.
Currently, this feature is in Beta. Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Improvements 🆙
Circular Chart enhancements 🟢
The Circular chart was known, for its lack of color customization. It’s now over with this release with 2 major enhancements:
Sentiment support: you can now apply sentiment over the circular chart’s arcs to convey an even better message with circular charts
Distinct arcs by colors: it will allow you (finally) to distinguish each arc by color. This is not the default behavior as it’s not recommended in most cases but it’s a power feature for specific storytelling aspects as representing a part of the whole when parts have strongly linked colors.
Bug Fixes 🐛
We fixed:
V132 Bug fixes
Charts:
Barline chart display could be buggy upon resize
Embedded table chart CSS was broken
Custome width in tile wasn’t taken into account
Leaderboard labels were cut off with a variation column
App
Moving stories did not work well; sometimes the moved stories were no longer displayed.
Sometimes filters weren’t displayed when depending on translations
Can’t duplicate an app with embeds having aliases
Date range filters started from year 1000
PDF Report
The PDF report editor had display issues when editing a PDF report in production mode.
It was no longer possible to create new automations with a PDF report.
Sending PDF reports via SDK was not working correctly.
Dashboard
Under certain conditions, it was not possible to download a dashboard as a PDF.
Dynamic translation syntax didn’t work on dashboard filters
SDK: date range filters couldn’t be initialized through the SDK
July 9, 2024 - v131
New Features 🎉
Self-service PDF Report 📒
With the new self-service PDF Report feature, it has never been easier to create your own personalized PDF report! Any user can create their report in just a few clicks, and choose to share it or keep it as a personal report.
App builders can effortlessly design and share their PDF reports directly from staging mode, just as seamlessly as they do with other layouts (home, stories, dashboards):
Users with “Viewer” privilege can now create PDF reports directly from production mode. Non-technical users don't need to know how to handle data. They simply need to select visualizations already created by their App Builders. From there, they can freely create and edit their reports, comment on the data, and more. It's easy to create a PDF report, publish it with a single click, and share it with others with read or edit permissions.
More on this feature in our documentation.
Currently, this feature is in Beta Please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to activate it in your workspace.
Improvements 🆙
Date Range filters can now have “All time” preset by default
Bug Fixes 🐛
V131 Bug fixes
App: No mail was received using the scheduler
Charts
Barchart: tick format wasn’t adapting to current periodicity
Gantt chart: sentiment edition was broken
Dashboard: The order of the stories didn't match the order in the application,, when imported into a dashboard
Performance: Improved performance issues related to the execution context
Datasets: Datasets with variables couldn’t be saved as stored datasets
Datasources: extracting information from dates using "previous ISO week number" in BigQuery wasn’t working
User administration: Super Admin couldn’t see their email in the user list
June 24, 2024 - v130
Bug fixes 🐛
V130 Bug fixes
App
Significantly reducing the screen size of the homepage on desktop caused display issues.
Updating a video tile blocked the saving of the homepage.
Under certain conditions, it was not possible to save a story.
Flacky filtering interface when creating a story with a crossfilter.
Charts
Leaderboard Centered Average: overwriting an automatic average with a dynamic value from the dataset was not working
Youprep: user attributes where not displayed in Youprep steps' dropdowns when it came from a token with contributor privilege
Embed: The dashboard embed was not displaying correctly with view privileges in certain cases.
Big Query connector:
Conditional Column Creation: creating a conditional column on an existing date extract column in BigQuery resulted in two columns instead of one.
Dataset Creation: creating a dataset with a group by step and maintaining granularity with a MIN column resulted in nothing appearing.
Admin: instance settings file where not accessible
Embed: authentication with embed_token parameter was not working in certain conditions
June 10, 2024 - v129
New Features 🎉
“Hybrid Pipelines” are now Generally available!
We are excited to announce that “Hybrid pipelines” are now generally available by default for all after a successful testing period!
During the testing phase, “Hybrid pipelines” received overwhelmingly positive feedback, highlighting its ability to enhance user experience and improve workflow efficiency. You can try it out without any change if you’re connected to Snowflake, Google Big Query, AWS Redshift, AWS Athena, PostgreSQL. More on this feature here.
Bug fixes 🐛
V129 Bug fixes
We fixed:
Charts
Tablecharts couldn’t be edited after creation
Mapcharts markers' size wasn’t working
Filters: Fixed default values for date range filters were not working
Datasources: FTP datasources were wrongly considered as live datasources
Youprep: Fixed custom date formatting with %B not working as expected
May 21, 2024 - v128
New Features 🎁
Insights on query performance
We are excited to announce a new feature that enhances the visibility and troubleshooting capabilities for queries underlying charts and tiles. With this release, you can now inspect your query performance details directly within the chart and tile editor.
This is especially useful with the release of our new “Hybrid pipeline” feature (see more in 🎢 [Beta] Hybrid Pipeline), as Toucan smartly combines computation from your data source with its own query engine, making it more important to understand the performance breakdown.
Performance Diagnosis in Chart and Tiles
Our new performance entry provides a comprehensive view of YouPrep steps used by our Smart Editor to create the dataset used by your chart. This feature lets you quickly identify and analyze performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal query performance.
Key Benefits:
Identify Slow Queries: Receive alerts when a query execution time exceeds a predefined threshold (e.g., 1 second), enabling you to promptly address performance issues.
Streamlined Troubleshooting: Quickly pinpoint and resolve performance bottlenecks by analyzing the execution time of each step within the hybrid query.
Detailed Step Breakdown: Expand individual operations to gain deeper insights into the translated query definition and other relevant details.
Getting Started
To access the new performance entry, simply navigate to the chart or tiles form where your hybrid queries are executed. You will see a dedicated section displaying the execution steps and their respective timings.
Improvements 🆙
Builder app navigation improvement
We have implemented UX improvements in the app navigation for builders:
It's now easier to return to the app store from staging mode with a dedicated button right in the staging bar. The headers of the configuration pages have also been improved for clearer navigation between sections.
You will see skeletons on the home page and stories so you'll have better feedback on page loading
The state of each tab is now saved so you'll find DataHub or Charts exactly how you left it before you switched
Better performance when designing an App
We're introducing performance boosts during the app-building experience, particularly when selecting a dataset to create a chart, exploring dataset information in the DataHub, or working with large datasets. How did we do it? We implemented a new approach to efficiently store and retrieve minimal dataset metadata alongside the dataset ID.
Font management dropdown
Now, selecting a font in the customization menu is easier, with the font name displayed in its own style, allowing you to preview and choose the right one!
Bug Fixes 🐛
We have also highly invested in quality for this new release along with new features. See the detailed list below
Bug Fixes of V128
App
Duplicating stories was impossible with specific configurations.
The dashboard creation button abnormally redirected to the app store if the application's URL had been modified.
Duplicating an app was impossible with a specific configuration.
The “view as” preview with a user that was part of a group wasn’t working.
Edit or create datasets from the storytelling menu without needing to refresh your screen, as the updated columns will be automatically reflected, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted storytelling experience.
The “Unsaved changes” message was sometimes displayed when no changes were made within a layout.
Tiles were sometimes highlighted for no reason.
The chapter was not editable in the case of a long chapter title.
The Home title was cropped under certain conditions.
During the loading of a tile, the templating in the title appeared for a few seconds.
The drag-and-drop function for rearranging stories was very slow.
The dataset ID was missing when updating a story.
Style changes in the narratives were not saved correctly.
My Favorite
A user with viewer or validator privilege was not able to create a My Favorite report.
Deleting a story imported in My Favorite report caused an error within My Favorite.
Charts
The bullet chart’s color option was missing the possibility of being aggregated while other metrics could.
Units and precisions were disappearing if you changed the chart’s type
Improve x-axis display of Linecharts, especially in the case with multi-lines.
Filters
It is now possible to use a filter based on a dataset that joins another dataset with the same datasource but different parameters
Filter values were flaky when switching to staging
The display of “null” values was broken. Now, they are filtered out from possible values.
Datahub: After a long session, the preview could load infinitely.
Embed
An issue was preventing the use of the method insertEmbedById with different embeds.
The ‘Annotate & share’ button didn’t work for an embedded story.
PDF report
The precision units were not properly adapted to the selected language in the application, in the case of scheduled PDF report delivery.
It was impossible to change the image size.
The text zones did not display correctly in the PDF report under certain conditions.
Style changes to the text were not saved correctly.
Analytics: When using a custom URL not all events are retrieved.
Admin: Adding an admin to a group was impossible.
Next release will be on June 10th
May 7th, 2024 - v127
New Features 🎁
📒 Multiple PDF report
It's never been easier to create PDF reports with Toucan!
Builders can now design a compilation of PDF reports within a single application, and provide tailored reports for different end-user groups or analytical perspectives.
No need to juggle multiple apps to get various PDF reports anymore. Builders now have an easier and more scalable solution, reducing maintenance and costs.
With this new feature, it's still possible to edit and download PDF reports, as well as send them via email manually or on a scheduled basis.
With an enhanced mobile experience, empower your end users to effortlessly view, download or send by email the PDF report they need, whenever they need it, just as easily from a computer as from a mobile device.
Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to activate this new feature.
Group Privileges 👫
We're excited to announce the reintroduction of Group Privileges in Toucan 3.0, a feature that was part of Toucan 2.0, after a thorough rework of our technical architecture to make it more robust and scalable. Group Privileges give you greater control over access and permissions within your organization. You can manage users' application access by creating specific groups with shared permissions.
Please note that we've changed the mechanism: now, the most permissive privilege between user privilege and group privilege will be applied. For more details, please refer to our documentation.
Improvements 🆙
🚀 Various performance improvements: we have implemented additional performance improvements on DataHub dataset display
📖Minor changes: We've begun implementing small changes to improve the builder experience and simplify onboarding in our product. Our first update: in the staging bar, we've replaced the word 'Storytelling' with 'Charts' to make it clear that this interface is the central point for creating charts in the Storytelling App and, more importantly, for other layouts (PDF Report, Datawall, Dashboard Builder, My Favorites).
Bug Fixes 🐛
V127 Bug fixes
App:
The display of the Filter Panel on mobile wasn’t working.
Preview in iPad was breaking bar chart display
Charts: Heatmap couldn’t use dates as a label.
Embed: The filters' style was broken when several embeds were on the same page.
Next release is set for May 21st
April 15, 2024 - v126
Improvements 🆙
🎨 App Store redesign
We're pressing on with our product redesign, and in this release, we're introducing a fresh and sleek look to the app store. You'll immediately notice the new App Tile design, offering more space to showcase essential information in the most discoverable location for our users: latest edit, latest publish, and app ID copy. But that's not all— we've also revamped the app information editing, duplication, and deletion experiences to offer further guidance.
One more thing: you can now customize the order of apps by simply dragging and dropping them.
🎥 Changing filter types
Previously, you had to delete a filter to change its type, but now you can do so directly.
Note: be careful, as changing a filter directly referenced within a dataset may disrupt the related dataset pipeline.
🚀 Various performance improvements
The User Experience is closely tied to emotions. We're committed to continuously enhancing performance to ensure you experience a smooth and seamless analytics-building or reading experience, particularly with heavier apps. In this release, we've focused on improving the performance of different areas of our product. You may notice enhancements in DataHub loading times, particularly when loading datasets with significant dependencies, as well as improvements in filter loading times within your app. Stay tuned for more improvements to come soon!
Bug fixes 🐛
V126 Bug fixes
We fixed:
App
The app name is not displayed in the Home.
In a story, the tip randomly disappears when we click on it.
When a Home title is changed, it’s not always properly saved.
Some customized assets couldn’t be uploaded.
Permissions: back variables were wrongfully interpreted as front variables
Embed
Extra variables initialization wasn’t working
SendPDF report via the SDK
April 1, 2024 - v125
Improvements 🆙
🎨 Fresh Look for App Store & User Administration Headers
We've overhauled the headers in our App Store and User Administration to match Toucan's refreshed aesthetic. In your app store, you'll see that the search bar and app creation button are now positioned in a redesigned sticky header. The "admin area" button has been replaced by an icon, providing access to a new administration menu.
These updates mark the initial phase of a comprehensive redesign of the App Store, aimed at delivering a sleek, intuitive, and visually appealing experience. Stay tuned for more!
Bug fixes 🐛
V125 Bug fixes
We fixed:
App
Impossible to save a story containing a table chart with a column that has an invalid type
Impossible to save custom CSS after delete or copy/paste.
Chart
Barlinechart wasn’t working with dates
Mapchart: impossible to save without markers
Display of legends in preview
Filters: Filter checkbox was not taking into account nulls for live datasets
Send Home in embedded app: impossible to use the button without receiving an internal error.
Elastic Search Connector: Edit a query in ElasticSearch was causing the query to disappear
Hybrid Pipeline (beta): Filter on some stories or tiles was not possible in specific cases
March 18, 2024 - v124
Improvements 🆙
🗺️ Drill in your map chart with ease 🚀
We have made drill configuration with mapchart much easier! Simply fill the column including the level of hierarchy and we will manage the rest!
More in the documentation here
🦺 Safeguarded chart configuration
With the launch of Toucan 3.0, creating charts from raw datasets without data preparation is now incredibly simple, thanks to our automatic aggregation feature. Builders frequently utilize large datasets as inputs, which may inadvertently lead to feeding millions of rows into a chart during testing or due to misconfiguration, potentially causing browser crashes ❌.
To prevent such issues, we've implemented a display limit on charts as a safeguard. This provides users with a second chance to refine aggregations and filtering before encountering challenges in their building process.
🪣 Discontinuation of some connectors
We're discontinuing support for low-usage connectors to enhance the user experience and focus on the most utilized ones. As a result, the following connectors will be removed: Adobe Analytics, Anaplan, Facebook Ads, Facebook Insights, Google Adwords, Google My Business, Hubspot, Microstrategy, Linkedin ads, Net explorer, Toucan, Trello, Wootric
Bug fixes 🐛
V124 Bug fixes
Application
Impossible to display an Image tile in a PDF report.
In a tile, when a ‘link to’ is created without any value, it’s impossible to save but there is no explicit error message provided.
Impossible to open the Filters Panel on mobile
Apps with the wrong URL in a custom font were broken
Charts
Tile line display on top of filter information overlay
Fix toast message whenever a filter is applied on a tile
Tablechart: search among all unique values is possible
Filters
Templating based on Hierarchical filters could break visual elements
Templating based on Date Range filters could lead to adding 1 day to the end date display
App advanced configuration: Preservation of Filters/Datasets Ensured Upon Removal of queries.json Configuration File
Google Big Query connector
Date_ADD Now Expects Integer After Interval, Not String
Connector can get columns at timestamp format
March 04, 2024 - v123
Bug fixes 🐛
V123 Bug fixes
We fixed:
Embed: Impossible to embed within Angular frameworks
Application
When a story is duplicated and then moved to another chapter, the order of filters changes randomly.
The chart is cropped when sending a homepage containing a bullet chart.
Filters
Dropdown filters using dates were crashing
Not loading filters after switching to production mode without refreshing the web page
Charts: HKPI changes weren’t reflected after saving without refreshing the web page
Connectors: The credentials within the modal for connectors in Administration > Credential-admin would not open
February 19, 2024 - v122
New features 🎁
🎢 [Beta] Hybrid Pipeline
We're thrilled to announce the beta launch of our new "hybrid pipeline" feature!
So, what's it all about? When we introduced Toucan V3, we unveiled our "NativeSQL" translator designed for YouPrep, our no-code querying interface, simplifying light data preparation. While YouPrep generates SQL queries sent to databases through our NativeSQL translator, not all YouPrep operations were available.
To address this, we've enhanced YouPrep by making all operations available - including Join ! - within the same dataset (referred to as a "pipeline"), prioritizing NativeSQL wherever applicable.
To gain access to the beta, simply reach out to your Toucan CSM to activate it on your workspace!
💅 Font Management
*only available when the White Label is enabled
Most of you wanted this for a while! It’s now out!
For customers embedding Toucan in their software, Toucan must align seamlessly with your product's Design System/Guidelines, where the font plays a pivotal role in meeting those expectations. In the past, changing the fonts in a Toucan app required using Custom CSS and making educated guesses about class names used within Toucan – but that's now a thing of the past 🤠 ! We've revamped the process for a more streamlined experience.
We've curated the most commonly used fonts in modern software, but if you have a font that isn't on the list, no worries! You can add your font hosted on a CDN to perfectly align with your design.
All this effort is backed by a fresh and new customization interface, laying the groundwork for exciting customization options in the upcoming months. 👀
Improvements 🆙
🚀Interdependent Filters
Now, filters can interact with each other (please exercise caution to avoid infinite loops 😉). Additionally, we've revamped the highlighting feature to help you locate your filters more easily and ensure effortless maintenance of your apps!
🫡 Hierarchical Filter is now orderable!
The feature was missing on this last type of Filter! It’s now available for every level!
🥧 Circularchart is now sortable!
While the good practice is to still have it sorted in descending order, you can now reverse that and begin with the smallest arcs!
🚀 Datahub metadata display has been improved!
The performance of metadata display in the Datasets tab of Datahub has been significantly improved, especially for applications with numerous dependencies and usages.
Bug fixes🐛
V122 Bug fixes
We fixed:
Application: the loading of a story is too slow.
Charts: the stacked bar chart zoom option cannot be configured
Connectors: Elastic-search: a mandatory internal verification was failing for some specific configurations
Filters
Filter panel was sometimes hovering interfaces (like the “Customization” interface)
Filters weren’t displayed in web components embeds
February 5, 2024 - v121
New features 🎁
🎞️ Unlimited Filters
We've extensively revamped our Home, Stories, and Dashboard layouts to provide a unified experience for Filters. Now, they share a brand-new header that allows you to pin an unlimited number of filters to every layout. Additionally, a smart adaptive Filter Panel appears when there's not enough space to display them within the header!
We're introducing a new Filter Settings panel within the layout editors, providing a single and clear area to manage all your filters!
We trust that these improvements will make app maintenance easy and enjoyable for you!
Find more details in the documentation.
📺 Embedded Story now features in-header Filters!
Thanks to the enhancements made on Unlimited Filters, you can now embed a story complete with its header and pinned in-header filters! As an App Builder, this means you can embed designs tailored for extensive data exploration without depending on your web application's SDK tied to homemade filters.
Improvements 🆙
🖍️ Filter Creation
We've revamped the filter creation process to provide a clearer path for building them, preventing situations where incomplete filters could be created. The new form is more transparent, featuring an always-visible 'Create' button that is clickable only when mandatory options are filled in!
🚀 Filter performance
We've boosted the performance of filters configured with numerous unique values! Choices within a filter are now capped, and users are encouraged to use the search feature to explore additional values.
Additionally, we now load only the filters pinned to the current layout, significantly improving performance when entering an app with a large number of filters!
Bug fixes🐛
V121 Bug fixes
We fixed:
Application
When a story is duplicated, the data templates are not adapted
A story with HKPI can't be duplicated properly
“Sum” wasn’t the default aggregation anymore
Charts
Changing a HKPI’s dataset can now be saved properly
Waterfall with drill bars' order was not following configured rules
Leaderboard can’t use dates as labels
Dashboard: Impossible to export CSV datasets from an embedded dashboard.
Filters
Edge usage of filters could lead them to disappear
Stable edition for the Date Filter
Datahub: Datahub does not load in some edge cases
January 22, 2024 - v120
New features 🎁
Date Format suggestions
Bye bye d3 time format scary synthax! 👋
As an App Builder, you can now enjoy a user-friendly suggestion interface to effortlessly format your dates in various configurations, especially within charts.
But here's the kicker—you still have the power to manually input more intricate date formats using the familiar d3-time format. It's the best of both worlds for seamless date customization!
Improvements 🆙
Checkbox filters
The “Select all” button only selects values that match current search terms!
End users can now select several values in a row and confirm their choice with a new “Apply” button! It will avoid several data calls for each value selected and improve the user experience!
There is a clearer icon to unpin filters to avoid confusion with the delete icon!
January 8, 2024 - v119
New features 🎁
PostgreSQL: Managing Materialized Views!
Materialized views are now fully supported in our PostgreSQL connector! Configure the connector to seamlessly list materialized views alongside traditional tables and views when making your selections.
Improvements 🆙
Harmonized Filter Creation Experience!
We've revamped the filter creation process to align more closely with chart creation, ensuring a consistent and intuitive user experience. Simply select your dataset, choose the relevant column, give your filter a user-friendly name, and voilà!
Bug fixes🐛
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