Controls in Tiles, Topic-less AI, and Lots of Small Wins Throughout the App
December 20, 2024
A pair of huge new features for streamlining the dashboard experience:
Multi-select controls that allow for building a table from an array of columns that can be dynamically chosen (think pick N of the selected columns through a filter)
Tile-specific controls that lift the column picking interaction from the top of the dashboard on to one specific tile in-line (still needs design, but huge interactivity win)."
We're making Blobby smarter - now rather than forcing selection Blobby can find the best topic to answer your question. Makes querying that much easier for end users.
More in the model:
A new else field for coloring dimensions, giving more flexibility for color settings over highly fragmented dimensions. Also a bit of discussion of all the ways to format colors (RGB, Hex, CSS, etc)
New model control to set topic ordering in the workbook
Couldn't tell you what a Dutch number format is, but now we have them!
More in the front-end
Some behind-the-scenes work to allow better composability as we create Vega specs for our visualizations. Outcome would be better feature development velocity for vis.
Some new search controls for quickly finding dimensions or measures in the field picker (quick one flagged by a customer).
A quick tweak to add timezone to dashboard runtime metadata for easier undertsanding.
Some helper text to show how promotion should work inside drafts
And some for admins:
Bit more meat on our docs for the embed messaging framework. This opens up lots of UX extensibility for embedded developers for on-load events, on-click events, or a variety of other end user actions.
New admin toggles to only allow support coverage from different regions (North America or Europe or anywhere). May be appropriate for different data protection postures.
Multi-Select Controls and Tile-Specific Controls
A pair of huge new features for streamlining the dashboard experience:
Multi-select controls that allow for building a table from an array of columns that can be dynamically chosen (think pick N of the selected columns through a filter)
Tile-specific controls that lift the column picking interaction from the top of the dashboard on to one specific tile in-line (still needs design, but huge interactivity win).
Topic-less AI
We're making Blobby smarter - now rather than forcing selection Blobby can find the best topic to answer your question. Makes querying that much easier for end users.
More Dimension Colors
With `else`A new else field for coloring dimensions, giving more flexibility for color settings over highly fragmented dimensions. Also a bit of discussion of all the ways to format colors (RGB, Hex, CSS, etc)
Topic `display_order`
New model control to set topic ordering in the workbook
Dutch Number Formats
Couldn't tell you what a Dutch number format is, but now we have them!
New Vega Config Abstraction
Some behind-the-scenes work to allow better composability as we create Vega specs for our visualizations. Outcome would be better feature development velocity for vis.
Field Picker Dimension Measure Faceting
Some new search controls for quickly finding dimensions or measures in the field picker (quick one flagged by a customer).
Timezones on Dashboard Runtime
A quick tweak to add timezone to dashboard runtime metadata for easier undertsanding.
Better Draft Promotion
Some helper text to show how promotion should work inside drafts
Embed Event Messaging Docs
Bit more meat on our docs for the embed messaging framework. This opens up lots of UX extensibility for embedded developers for on-load events, on-click events, or a variety of other end user actions.
Region Controls for Omni Support
New admin toggles to only allow support coverage from different regions (North America or Europe or anywhere). May be appropriate for different data protection postures.