🆕2024 Releases
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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.
To 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.
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.
We fixed:
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)
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Consistent data labels (desktop)
✅
Zoom tool
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Enhanced tick management
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Streamlined smart editor
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Interactive legend (mobile)
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Consistent data labels (mobile)
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Crossfilters
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Drill-downs
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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.
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.
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.
We fixed
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.
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.
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.
We fixed:
We are shipping our v133 and v134 in the same release
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.
📙 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We fixed:
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.
Date Range filters can now have “All time” preset by default
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
We have also highly invested in quality for this new release along with new features. See the detailed list below
Next release will be on June 10th
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.
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.
🚀 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).
Next release is set for May 21st
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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
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!
*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. 👀
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!
The feature was missing on this last type of Filter! It’s now available for every level!
While the good practice is to still have it sorted in descending order, you can now reverse that and begin with the smallest arcs!
The performance of metadata display in the Datasets tab of Datahub has been significantly improved, especially for applications with numerous dependencies and usages.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
