Symphony 25.1 Enhancements
This topic provides details about the enhancements in Composer 25.1.
Generate Visuals with AI
Users of SaaS (Software as a Service) deployments of Symphony can now take advantage of a new beta AI option to generate visuals quickly.
Enter a natural language prompt into the AI Visual Generator with information you'd like to generate a visual for. Symphony reads column names and descriptions to intelligently gather and structure your data to the type of Visual Data Discovery visual you'd like to create, or select one if you don't choose one.
Example prompts:
Create a chart of last year's sales
Make a pie visual showing me sales by region
Build me a word cloud of visitors by country of origin
Symphony will generate your visual; then you can save it, edit it, or discard it as needed.
Important: This feature is considered to be released in beta for your testing purposes. Workflows and features may change before a production-ready version is released.
Symphony Licensing Unification
Starting with the release of Symphony v25.1, you can easily add and manage all licenses in the Administration homepage. Navigate to the Licensing work area to add or edit new licenses as needed. To access and manage previously installed licenses, see Apply a License Key.
User Interface Simplification and Updates
We've added a number of user interface updates to simplify the use of Symphony for you. These include changes to the interface to allow you to engage with your environment more easily, improved navigation with accessibility updates, and more.
You can now select to present your data in table visuals as wrapped from the table context menu. Select the more menu icon next to the heading name, and select Wrap Column or Reset Column Wrapping as needed.
Expanded information and settings are now available in the Properties window when you create or edit components in Managed Dashboards and Reports. Options are grouped in collections of settings you can navigate and use to update and change the properties of an object.
This Properties window has been redesigned to improve usability, provide more consistent organization, and be more approachable to new users. The locations of some properties have changed: for example, the Layout and Text tabs are now categories under Design, and the Actions category is now a tab. To change an element's display name, double-click it directly at the top of the window. If you have difficulty finding a setting, the related documentation articles contain updated guidance. Categories are collapsed by default, however you can use their existing double-click or right-click shortcut options.
Users who navigate Symphony using keyboards with or without a screen reader have more metadata available for various toolbars, buttons, and menus.
Some expansion icons that were formerly arrows are now more [...] icons. We have also added more information for users in information boxes, as well as included more tooltips that allow users to understand items in context of their project.
The Hidden and Locked properties are now dedicated icon buttons next to the title in the Properties window for objects in the Managed Dashboards and Reports module.
Information boxes have been added in various locations of the Properties window to help explain and navigate between different properties for objects in the Managed Dashboards and Reports module.
Hover over a table's header, row and cell style properties to see the corresponding area of the table highlighted in a tooltip for objects in the Managed Dashboards and Reports module.
Custom URLs for Dashboard Alerts
When you create a dashboard in Managed Dashboards and Reports, you can optionally add a specific domain URL recipients can use to navigate to the dashboard. If you do not add a specific URL, the default URL is sent.
Data Zoom Scroll Options for Visuals
You can now enable scroll options for Visual Data Discovery visuals that previously did not include axis ordrill down options. Depending on the visual type, the Data Zoom options may include horizontal, vertical, or both scroll options. This includes:
Line Trend: Attribute Value Charts and Multiple Metric Charts
Bar Charts
Box Plot
Combo Chart
Donut
Floating Bubbles
Heat Map
Pie
Waterfall
Enable or disable as needed in the Data Zoom section of the Settings sidebar menu. Changes to the ruler used in a visual will reset the scroll settings, and the minimum and maximums are not saved.
OData Enhancements
We've added support for the cast function in OData API filters. You can now cast numeric fields (integers, longs, doubles, decimals) to strings in filter queries, enabling string-based operations such as eq, startswith, and contains.
Dashboard Authors
Tenant administrators can now select and change the author for a dashboard in the Dashboard Library. The new author must have appropriate permissions for the dashboard to be able to access the dashboard.
Self Service Report Improvements
We've expanded Self Service Reports with several features you can use to customize reports more effectively by creating group based banded reports.
Add column fields to the grouped header
Include grouped details in the details section
Apply aggregates and conditional formatting
Include report headers and footers
Insert images in your report header
Export grouped data reports in PDF format
Group reports are structured to repeat for each unique record in the groups you've added to the report. You can include up to 8 columns in the group header and up to 15 columns in the group detail section of the report.
You can now schedule reports to run and be sent by email at frequencies that meed your needs.
Accessibility Expansion
Accessibility improvements have been added throughout the Symphony user interface. These include updates to access for keyboard and screen reader users on the logon page, main menu, toolbar, and various dialogs available in view mode in the Managed Dashboards and Reports module.
Import Files
Importing and publishing project files has been updated to better handle renaming of items in certain cases.
Snowflake Connector
The Snowflake Connector for .NET has been upgraded to version 4.3.0.
Unsubscribe Confirmation
Clicking the link in an email to unsubscribe now asks for user confirmation before the request is processed.
OpenAPI Spec for REST API - Managed Dashboards and Reports Module
An OpenAPI specification document as well as a new Swagger UI are built into the application to help you use the REST API. Access Swagger at the path /swagger under the root of the Managed website.
Password Policy Configuration
New password policy configuration setting Required Password Unique Characters can further enforce strong passwords.
Logging Customization
A new Helm chart property allows for customizing the initial logging verbosity of the microservices before they are first used.
Installation Logs
Certain non-sensitive fields such as host and port number are no longer masked in installation logs.
Installation Updates
The dundas-bi-setup container now returns an error code by default when initialization fails with the provided details, preventing the website and other containers from starting. This can be overridden by setting dundas.bi.setup.handledatabase.continueOnError.
The dundas-bi-setup container now attempts to install the required PostgreSQL extensions if missing or displays an improved error message.