New Features

Content Management

• We now ship a reduced set of templates with many more targeted reports now appearing in a "Solutions" area, for example a P&L out of the box

• A new combined home dialog showing Solutions, Templates and Folder browser

• Report versioning - ability to open older versions of a report

• Ability to import / export whole folder structures

Reporting

• Report Titles with parameterisation

• Column Captions with parameterisation

• Ability to limit hierarchy nesting levels at import

• No longer have to include the measures dimension on the grid if a single measure is selected

• New "sum of all selected items" calc.

• The "As Of" control has been extended to drive date buckets. 

• Improved daily bucketing options

• The rows / columns dialog now includes label reset and automated pretty layout capabilities (automating the creation of column captions) as well as the capacity to display code and captions for across members

• Report centres if the title is centred.

UI Reorganisation and Improvements

• Totals have been split into separate Subtotalling and Hierarchy areas to simplify usability

• Hierarchy dialog extensively reworked for simplicity

• Variables can now appear on the control surface of the report

• Better feedback regarding where a report is in the execution, calculation and display process – particularly useful when you want to stop a huge report before it attempts to layout 60,000 rows, or when switching toggling grid lines, say.

• Do way more from the grid right click menu, reducing need to go into the Rows / Columns dialog

• Dropdown in Excel Ribbon to position filters either at the top or to the right.

Formatting

• Column Header formatting

• Some predefined Style presets

• Can format a column as a clickable hyperlink

• Reports no longer have to be re-run when applying or changing formatting or display settings

Experience

• Web interface more responsive with a much more immediate user experience

• Improved drag from the Field explorer allows better drop positioning of dimensions and attributes

• Filter validation delay to aid users typing into filter controls whilst on a VPN

• Automated push notification to the Admin screen when new product versions are released