CXO Software Change log

24.4.0

Date Jan 13, 2025

Fixed

• Upgrade PuppeteerSharp and remove deprecated packages for export service

• Remove deprecated packages from Designer

Added

• Added Indexes newly created Fact Databases by default

• Added Hide POV filters in Set POV & Play Storyboards

24.3.4

Date Dec 18, 2024

Fixed

• "Export report" icon is not centered correctly (DEV-30796)

• Allow POV working incorrectly for rotated chart (DEV-31037)

• Add translation for storyboard state update button for French and German (DEV-31077)

24.3.3

Date Dec 3, 2024

Added

• Edit Storyboard when editor is in play mode (DEV-25382)

Security

• Library upgrade- Application Insights

24.3.2

Date Nov 20, 2024

Added

• Extending fail-over for Analysis Services by processing

Security

• Security updates to libraries

24.3.1

Date Nov 5, 2024

Added

• Extending Language Support in Analysis Services (DEV-30818)

Security

• Security updates to libraries used in installer

24.3.0

Date Oct 7, 2024

Added

• Use PBI event to determine start time of export

• Remove references to CXO catalog from Dashboard & Designer

Fixed

• Do not type over icons in search box (DEV-30729)

• Ensure Oracle Adapter scheduler works (DEV-30772)

24.2.2

Date Sep 17, 2024

Added

• Enable multi-language reporting on SSAS

  • Note: This feature needs to be manually turned on in the Configurator

24.2.1

Date Aug 27, 2024

Added

• Improvements to Embedding Power BI reports (only available with Power BI embedding connector)

Fixed

• Conversation and Notification dialog boxes jump to top when user scrolls to bottom (DEV-28620)

Security

• Security updates to libraries used (DEV-30399)

24.2.0

Date Jul 29, 2024

Fixed

• NN URL bug (DEV-30354)

• .Net Upgrade for CXO.Software.Infrastructure and CXO.Adapterbase

24.1.3

Date Jul 1, 2024

Fixed

• Exports cutting off header information (DEV-30308)

• Boost the performance of SQL Queries involving narrative tables (DEV-30458)

24.1.2

Date May 7, 2024

Fixed

• Integration admins access to Source System manager

• Adjustment axis labels bar and line charts

24.1.1

Date Apr 24, 2024

Added

• Rename chrome.exe to chromium.exe (DEV-30088)

Fixed

• Fixed issue with rich text editor in designer (DEV-30104)

24.1.0

Date Apr 8, 2024

Fixed

• Fixed strikethrough on larger font (DEV-29787)

• Removed duplicate tooltips in Safari (DEV-29222)

23.4.5

Date Mar 25, 2024

Added

• See user list in user group in designer

• Avoid use Cefsharp is SSM

Fixed

• Adding multiple users from other storyboard issue (DEV-28820)

• Adding image and saving comment in dock mode (DEV-29751)

• Duplicate tooltip issue on Mac Safari in Dashboard UI (DEV-29222)

23.4.4

Date Mar 11, 2024

Added

• Workflow notifications for assigned workflow steps

• Maintenance message when a user logs in

Fixed

• Edit bar no long is stuck to the top for the general comment box

• Reports and storyboards which are linked to workflows can now correctly deleted

• Editing a workflow instance from a failed workflow works now correctly

• Made searching for a workflow on name more robust

• Workflow report status is no longer hidden when the report becomes out of date

23.4.3

Date Feb 13, 2024

Added

• Hide report behind pop-up based on data validation step Workflow

• Update Workflow status icons on reports

Fixed

• Status-icon was duplicated in some cases

• Web server standard download configuration for translation files

• Deployment of missing file required for the export service (Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces.dll)

23.4.2

Date Feb 1, 2024

Added

• Customizable workflow feature

• Upgrade of Mobile App react native dependencies

Fixed

• Comment edit bar stuck/flickering issue (DEV-29380)

• Translation refresh issue (DEV-29738)

Security

• Update of component used for commentary/System Announcement in CXO designer

23.4.1

Date Jan 15, 2024

Fixed

• UI bug fixes for translations (DEV-29364)

• Workflow redirect issue fixed (DEV-28587)

Security

• Update of component used for commentary text entry

23.4.0

Date Dec 29, 2023

Fixed

• Adjusted browser tab text

• Fixed navigation link in workflows after all steps were completed

23.3.5

Date Dec 19, 2023

Fixed

• Security improvement with cross-site scripting

• Added additional translations

• Fixed issue with changing translation language

23.3.4

Date Dec 4, 2023

Added

• Option to translate CXO dashboard to German and French

• Option to override Source System Manager with proprietary login (DEV-29328)

  • To enable: Open configurator settings and set value for Source System Manager: Override authentication provider with proprietary to true

Fixed

• Multi-line annotation is not working (DEV-29471)

• Persistent Cross-Site Scripting in Comments box (DEV-29290)

• CXO Homepage news column cut off (DEV-28862)

• User navigated to browse reports from Workflows (DEV-28132)

• Copy from functionality updating workflow steps which are already completed (DEV-27267)

Security

• Update CefSharp package in Source System Manager

23.3.3

Date Nov 20, 2023

Fixed

• Unable to open Source System Manager when SAML is turned on (DEV-29335)

• Error when using multi layer column header in a table that has more than four dimensions in the column list (DEV-29343)

• Drilling down on report with no data resulted in error (DEV-29348)

Security

• Updated jQuery

23.3.2

Date Nov 7, 2023

Added

• English, French and German translations for storyboards

• Fit PowerPoint to slide + margins

Fixed

• Small UI fix embed Power BI matching page

Security

• Fixed vulnerability on @babel/traverse

23.3.1

Date Oct 25, 2023

Added

• English, French and German translations for reports

• PowerPoint export fit to slide option

Fixed

• Some bugs on Manage embedded matches screen

Security

• Fixed vulnerability on Cef.Sharp library

23.3.0

Date: Oct 12, 2023

Added

• PowerBI Embedding functionality

23.2.8

Date: Sep 27, 2023

Fixed

• Optimizing the ‘Source System Matches’ page under CXO Designer

23.2.7

Date: Sep 13, 2023

Added

• For assigning roles to storyboard users, batch loading of permissions was added to achieve performance improvement

Fixed

• Added missing dll’s in installer

23.2.6

Date: Sep 7, 2023

Fixed

• Fixed bug that caused Data Warehouse Adapter metadata management page to not load

23.2.5

Date: Aug 16, 2023

Added

• Support platform redirect service for on-premise customers.

23.2.4

Date: Aug 14, 2023

Added

• Performance improvement of share storyboard pop-up

23.2.3

Date: Jul 31, 2023

Fixed

• Fixed issue with new CXO installation (DEV-28664)

• Fixed bug for displaying failed export error message (DEV-28627)

Security

• NuGet package upgrades

23.2.2

Date: Jul 18, 2023

Note: We have started communicating case IDs for externally reported bugs. We therefore will include them in the changelog where applicable.

Fixed

• Fixed bug when changing POV with no data breaking CXO (DEV-28594)

Security

• Upgrade of 3rd party packages

23.2.1

Date: Jul 5, 2023

Fixed

• Fixed bug where when editing a workflow the approval members information not being restored

23.2.0

Date: Jul 5, 2023

Added

• Insightsoftware Platform GA

• Changed documentation link to Zendesk and removed links to old documentation in CXO Designer

• Finalize support for Azure SQL Managed Instances

Fixed

• For Identity Provider use a key length of 2048 bits for RSA cypher algorithm

23.1.5

Date: Jun 21, 2023

Added

• Platform Redirect Service configuration​

• Removed license information from profile menu on web page

Fixed

• PDF creation picks up POV settings

• Fix colored column header

23.1.4

Date: Jun 9, 2023

Fixed

• Graph minimum value

• Added scroll bar for CONTENT section in CXO designer in case number of columns exceeds page width

• Enable save changes button when updates made to data entry report for Data Warehouse Adapter (DWA)

• Access restrictions to Metadata management page via URL without DWA license

• Changing point of view in storyboard without error message

23.1.3

Date: May 25, 2023

Added

• Redirect Service configuration​ - Phase 1 (Platform)

• Partial support for Azure SQL Managed Instances

Fixed

• SSM login error

• Fixed error message​ (Oracle EPM)

• Fixed small workflow bugs

23.1.2

Date: May 9, 2023

Security

• Enhanced protocol validation (Platform)

Added

• Enhanced accessibility control for LV reports

• Updated Workflow colors to ISW colors

• Support for IIS dynamic compression

Fixed

• Loading screen after applying POV changes

• Small Workflow bugs

23.1.1

Date: Apr 25, 2023

Added

• Workflow status icons in storyboards are now also displayed in report view

Fixed

• Updated version of Chromium (107)

• Updated React in CXO Designer

23.1.0

Date: Apr 13, 2023

Added

• UI changes: moving the top navigation bar to the left hand side (including various small UI tweaks on other pages)

• Platform authentication: new customers can now be onboarded on the insightsoftware platform

Fixed

• Workflow create/edit: After typing in unavailable value for approval member makes selection impossible

• Workflow dimension selector: Dimension members are now also showing if the hierarchy contains more than a 1000 members

22.4.5

Date: 13-03-2023

Added

• Added background colour for (pie)chart labels

• Change mouse icon and hover for workflow report selector and edit context menu to unclickable for items with no action

Fixed

• Changed approval member of failed workflow to correct member description

• Fixed drill order in storyboards

22.4.4

Date: 27-02-2023

Security

• Fix security vulnerability

Added

• Use new export logo - only for newly created applications

Fixed

• Failed workflow delete confirmation not showing approval member name

• Scripted storyboards follow script as opposed to POV

22.4.3

Date: 15-02-2023

Security

• Upgrade of AngularJS library

Fixed

• Workflows page not accessible for non-Worklow users

• When reports are opened in multi-tab and ‘keep inactive’ is chosen for the presented pop-up report doesn’t load indefinitely

• Possibility to create new workflow with name same as a deleted workflow

• In workflows Year and Period dimension members are displayed by their description instead of their technical name

• Workflows can be created for cube calculation members as well as for regular members

22.4.2

Date: 30-01-2023

Added

• Saving Workflow state when browsing

• Improvements deleting workflows

Fixed

• Fixed label alignment on horizontal axis

• Small security fixes / library upgrades

22.4.1

Date: 17-01-2023

Added

• Added owner to the workflow template to avoid orphaned Workflows

• Saving Workflow state when browsing; if you go to Reports and then back to Workflows, you will return where you left

• Hiding spinner when no data available for Workflows

• Default application color changes (ISW color applied to new applications. Existing installations are unaffected)

• Security improvements

• Improved arrows in tiles: made more bold to increase visibility

• UI improvement for long names in dropdowns

Fixed

• Fixed conditional formatting issue percentages

22.4.0

Date: 03-01-2023

Added

• Reports opened from Workflow Details page use POV of Workflow

• Redirect to details page upon Workflow completion

22.3.3

Date: 08-12-2022

Added

• Update workflows in UI when changes are made (no refreshes needed to see recently created workflow)

Fixed

• Fixed an inconsistency in displaying approval member names in workflows

• The workflow details page was showing a warning even when workflow is on track

• We have improved the positioning of chart labels for single line charts to avoid overlapping with the line

22.3.2

Date: 22-11-2022

Added

• Tooltips for Workflow tabs

Fixed

• Validation error in create workflows

• Storyboard/report showing only icons (no names) on edit future run workflow page when user has no access to it

• Edit workflow not restoring the Approval member selection during navigation

• Upon edit one-off failed workflows, user edits current run, instead of a future run

Security

• Workflow accessible to user using URL even though it is not creator/step owner

• User able to edit workflow template from Future tab even though Edit workflow permission not assigned

22.3.1

Date: 15-11-2022

Fixed

• Report layer container is flickering and not responsive

22.3.0

Date: 09-11-2022

Added

• Workflow functionality

Fixed

• Centering of main menu when logging in as light user

22.2.6

Date: 24-10-2022

Fixed

• When you export a report to PPT, the report title is now again visible in it

22.2.5

Date:13-10-2022

Fixed

• When you log in as a light user, the main menu is now center aligned.

• The height of the row now gets automatically adjusted when the Listen To parameter has been turned on.

• When running a search if a source is missing, an error message for the missing source is shown.

22.2.3

Date: 13-09-2022

Fixed

• Fixed issue table header coloring (DEV-26622)

22.2.2

Date: 15-08-2022

New

• Support Longview TP ActualYTD root member (DEV-26727)

• Support Longview monthly and annual data (DEV-26595)

• Add option to generate previews for published reports only (DEV-26381)

Fixed

• Fixed issue where application refresh rate was not showing for Oracle Cloud EPM and Longview (DEV-26371)

22.2.1

Date: 18-07-2022

Fixed

• Fixed issue with category axis format

22.2.0

Date: 04-07-2022

Fixed

• Fixed issue when printing there was space reserved for empty comments (DEV-26529)

22.1.3

Date: 21-06-2022

New

• Improvements profile pictures

  • Profile picture are loaded when they are needed

  • New profile pictures are reduced in size

Fixed

• Display bug which caused overlapping of table sections on switching reports in Edge/Chrome (DEV-26535)

• Limit number of recently opened reports to improve performance (DEV-26442)

• Replaced the old “information” icon with a new “triangle” icon for indicating errors (DEV-26417)

• Tooltips for columns which were using [NEW LINE] had weird labels. These tooltips are now showing correctly (DEV-26399)

22.1.2

Date: 28-04-2022

Fixed

• Correct message when a user does not have access to a report accessed via conversations (DEV-25172)

• Minimum value in graphs is now supported properly when there are item labels (DEV-26397)

• Direction of arrow in the browse reports menu ahs been corrected (DEV-26409)

• Corrected tooltip when hovering over table header which uses [NEWLINE] (DEV-26399)

• Enabled changing of row/column height when item type is Empty/ItemLabelOnly (DEV-26346)

• Column width is now adjusting in tables when a row uses [NEWLINE] in its header (DEV-26377)

22.1.1

Date: 30-03-2022

Fixed

• Fixed Workflow button visible while feature is switched off (DEV-26366)

22.1.0

Date: 28-03-2022

Fixed

• Fixed Variance TrendArrow direction (DEV-26281)

• Fixed an issue with parameter templates loading on Report creation. Parameter templates where loaded for all reports on Report creation report, instead of only for the current template. (DEV-26278)

• Fixed an issue where Light users could start a conversation or add users to a conversations. (DEV-25910)

• Fixed an issue where the Newline function in a row label didn't work (DEV-25371)

21.4.2

Date: 25-02-2022

Fixed

• PDF Printing - Layout issues when using tables with vertical growth enabled (DEV-26217)

• PDF Printing - Incomplete header text (DEV-26206)

21.4.1

Date: 14-01-2022

Fixed

• Multiple vulnerabilities in the CXO Dashboard (DEV-25937)

• CXO Catalog items could not be loaded into the CXO Designer (DEV-25994)

• Twitch in layout after rendering of a report (DEV-26003)

• For negative numbers the comma was in wrong position in graph label (DEV-25931)

21.4.0

Date: 03-01-2022

Fixed

• Fixed issue where sometimes comments were not exported to PDF (DEV-25995)

• Fixed issue where unnecessary black lines appeared in PDF exports of tables (DEV-25544)

21.3.4

Date: 03-12-2021

Added

• Setting in CXO Configurator with which SAP BW connections can be set per session or per query (DEV-25546)

Fixed

• CXO Identity Provider is now working for new installations when .NET Core 3.1 is installed and .NET Core 2.1 isn’t (DEV-25866)

21.3.3

Date: 18-11-2021

Fixed

• Report elements were left-aligned after updating to version 21.3.2 (DEV-25849)

• Text that extends beyond the maximum width of a label element was not shown correctly (DEV-25837)

• Dimension selector in OneStream dashboard showed duplicate account hierarchies (DEV-25825)

• Too light grey color of borders and headers in Value Tree have been adjusted (DEV-25410)

• Column header formatting was partially ignored in export (DEV-25653)

21.3.2

Date: 05-11-2021

Added

• Pdf Export improvement > Align header and footer with content of pdf export (DEV-25751)

Fixed

• Period frequencies fix > Period frequencies are not respected in @@CUR (DEV-25758) – Please note that this fix can create adverse effects if the Period Frequency Mapping in the Source System Manager has not been configured fully and correctly.

• Comments > Comment format styling does not work when scrolling the list (DEV-25728)

• Storyboards > The more option (...) does not work when a text in search box is filled in (DEV-25039)

21.3.1

Date: 22-10-2021

Fixed

• Export improvement > Decrease space between the bottom of report and footer in export (DEV-25356)

• Export improvement > Export is saving empty space for comment box, when no comments (DEV-23284)

• Comment font formatting only works when docked (DEV-25627)

21.3.0

Date: 08-10-2021

Added

• Table Control > Horizontal growth based on contents is now supported for free-format table controls.

• Table Control > Freeze row headers on horizontal scrolling for table controls.

• OneStream Adapter > Scheduling for metadata and data extractions.

• SSAS Tabular Connector > Reading member descriptions from an external relational database, see Member Description from external source database for Tabular source system

Fixed

• Table Control > Maximum height property was not applied for vertically growing free-format table controls.

• Bridge Control > Long bridge label was not wrapped properly (DEV-25599)

• Horizontal scrollbar appeared in Browse Reports for reports with horizontal scrollbar (DEV-25673)

21.2.2

Date: 10-09-2021

Fixed

• Agent Service > Memory management improvement (DEV-25044)

• Controls > Unnecessary line removed from container (DEV-25373)

• Table Controls > Background color, text color and alignment for drill button improved (DEV-25329)

• Mobile > On iOS mobile web showing footer (DEV-23472)

• Storyboards > Freeze headers positioned in correct place after scrolling up and down (DEV-25550)

21.2.1

Date: 16-08-2021

Fixed

• Printing > There were labels overlapping and annotations not being printed (DEV-25403)

• Printing > In rare occasions, printing a table to pdf would result in the bottom row being impossible to read (DEV-25355)

• Chart Controls > Hoovering over graph was hiding label when aligning to right was set and other graph was next to the control (DEV-25369)

21.2.0

Date: 16-07-2021

Added

• Storyboards > Allow playing and exporting storyboards when one source system is unavailable.

• Table > Column gaps when cells next to it have the same background color now also get the same color. This does not apply for conditional formatting.

• Configurator > Add Registration of Oracle EPM Service.

Fixed

• OneStream Adapter - Source was not removed from configuration database on deleting a source (DEV-22967)

• Conversations were created with wrong POVs (DEV-25177)

• Some controls were not shown during report export for some reports as they were stacked. They are now all visible. (DEV-25222)

• Background color in tabular 'stretched' cells did not cover entire background in exported .pdf file (DEV-25297)

• While exporting the pop-up screen was not looking correct in Chromium (DEV-24971)

• Custom fonts were not used for headers and footers in exported .pdf files (DEV-25235)

21.1.8

Date: 02-07-2021

Added

• Conversations > Search conversations by report name

Fixed

• Custom dimension label was not shown in POV section of conversation tooltip (DEV-25179)

• Installer certificate was expired

• Chart labels were shown in different font sizes (DEV-25187)

• When a source was not available the conversations menu was empty (DEV-25230)

• When a source was not available the variables screen in CXO-Designer was not loaded correctly

• When a conversation is minimized and the user goes to another conversation, the new conversation window stayed minimized (DEV-24171)

21.1.7

Date: 18-06-2021

Added

• Possibility to connect to Essbase version 19.3

• Table > Conditional coloring for non-variance list items in MDX and dynamic lists

• Conversations > Quick POV filters in conversations overview

Fixed

• Export > Excel export was not correct when report table had drill up

• Browse report was not keeping navigation state of expanded sections, everything was collapsed back

• On search conversations Mark as read or Mark unread changes were not reflected in the list

• Tooltip values for unchanged scale was not showing decimals

• If a user tried to access a conversation he is not part of, the access denied page was not shown

21.1.6

Date: 07-06-2021

Added

• Table > Conditional coloring for non-variance list items

Fixed

• CXO Designer’s Edit Layout was locking up after making adjustments in free format report

• Conversations > Could not search in conversations on BrowseReports & Storyboards page

• Chart > Formatting of axis > the format in a graph was no longer with decimals and didn’t show thousands

21.1.5 (skipped)

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21.1.4

Date: 21-05-2021

Added

• Conversations > Search conversations

Fixed

• POV > Custom item label not resolved properly when a list is used in POV

• Table > Labels cut-off by using custom font

• Table > Performance increase for large table rendering

• Chart > Format of axis labels fixed to separate thousands (2000000 → 2,000,000)

21.1.3

Date: 07-05-2021

Added

• Conversations > Support Light users

• Layout > Max width for tooltips

Fixed

• Charts > Labels were cut off on print DEV-24925

• Charts > Tooltip for unchanged values is not showing decimals DEV-24914

• Chart > Data labels not centered in case of a non-default font DEV-24904

• Comments > Incorrect Current POV status icon when only attachments are present DEV-24887

• Comments > Issue with Attachments DEV-24883

• Table > Vertical alignment on header cells not working DEV-24861

• Table Control > When printing the headers background is not properly printed DEV-24840

• Usage Logs > Usage logs not working DEV-24818

• Conversations menu> Ellipsis is missing when having long names reports DEV-24109

• Storyboard details > Dropdown in container is not moving when scrolling DEV-23822

21.1.2

Date: 23-04-2021

Security

• Login > Disabled autocomplete on the password field (DEV-24822)

Added

• Conversations > Leaving conversations

• Conversations > Deleting a conversation if all participants leave

• Charts > Avoid overlapping data labels for line series. Read this documentation page for constraints and use cases.

  • This feature is turned off by default. To turn it on, set CXO Configurator > Settings > Feature Enabling: Avoid Overlapping Chart Labels to true.

Changed

• Table > Improved performance for two use cases

  • Very large tables (e.g. 1000 rows and 10 columns)

  • When ShowAnnotations setting is set to “Only for this control“ or “Shared among reports“

• CXO Designer > When changing settings of a list item, setting Visible will be shown in all tabs (Data, Format, Display, All)

Fixed

• Chart > New line was not applied on category axis labels if the label text was starting with [NEWLINE] (DEV-24767)

• Table > When displayed number has scale Unchanged and precision greater than 0, the tooltip number still precision 0, so tooltip was showing less information than displayed number (DEV-24788)

21.1.1

Date: 09-04-2021

Security

• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) now disabled by default. Since version 20.3.0, the CXO’s CORS setup were too permissive.

  • The default values can be adjusted using CXO Configurator - for more info please read this documentation page.

Added

• Conversations > Feature enabled

• Conversations > Adding and removing participants from the conversation

• Conversations > Email notifications

Changed

• Export > Delay when printing a report of a storyboard page changed from default 10s to 2s.

• Export > Delay when printing a report of a storyboard page now configurable in CXO Configurator > Settings > Export Engine: Delay Before Exporting (Seconds)

  • This delay ensures that exports are made after all dynamic adjustments of reports take place (e.g. adjusting of chart labels)

• Export > Control borders can now be hidden when exporting by adjusting CXO Configurator > Settings > Export Engine: Hide Control Borders. Default behavior is to show the borders on report exports.

• Comments > Increased space between lines when pressing ENTER. When pressing SHIFT+ENTER, there will be no space between the lines (DEV-24762)

Fixed

• POV > Since version 21.1.0, settings for the initial POV in the URL were not showing up in the Configurator.

• Chart > Axis labels were not showing negative number correctly if the format of negative numbers was (123) instead of -123. More info on changing negative number format is available here (DEV-24153)

• Comments > After changing the text in the comment, if the comments were then docked, the changes were not shown in the docked comments editor (DEV-24136)

21.1.0

Date: 26-03-2021

Added

• POV > When opening a report, initial POV can be added to the URL. This enables passing parameters (from another solution) to open a CXO report with the desired POV.

• Conversations > Closing conversations window

• Conversations > Indicator for the number of unread conversations

• Conversations > Marking conversations as read/unread

Fixed

• Mobile > Sometimes a report that contains a table with variance bars was not opened (DEV-23953)

• Installation > When vs2015-2019 x64 redistributable was already installed on the server, the installation was failing (DEV-23578)

20.4.8

Date: 12-03-2021

Added

• Conversations > Listing all the conversations the user is involved in

• Conversations > Indicator for unread messages in the current conversation

Fixed

• Annotations > Report could not be loaded when multi-source lists or current-year-only lists are used (DEV-24037)

• SAML > When SAML Authentication on CXO is enabled, it was not possible to login to CXO Identity Provider (DEV-24046)

20.4.7

Date: 11-03-2021

Added

• Export > Logging to storyboard exporting process to measure exporting time, can be turned on by setting CXO Configurator > Settings > Export Engine: Enable Custom Tracing to true

Fixed

• General comments > Since version 20.4.5, comments were not shown when exporting reports or storyboards (DEV-24044)

• General comments > When CXO is set up with virtual directory, copied child / base / previous period comments were not showing images correctly (DEV-24010)

• Chart > Line series labels cut off if they are on a primary axis with legend on top (DEV-24011)

• Essbase > When connecting to the cloud-version of Essbase, meta-data was not retrieved (DEV-23673)

• POV > Draft period restrictions were not applied after the POV is changed (DEV-24019)

20.4.6

Date: 03-03-2021

Fixed

• General comments > Copying child or base comments was not following a fixed order of members (DEV-23935)

• General comments > If images were added in CXO version 6.3 while playing a storyboard, after upgrade to version 20 they were not shown properly (DEV-24007)

• Charts > In case of variance area charts, skipping or hiding axis labels was not working correctly (DEV-23997)

20.4.5

Date: 26-02-2021

Changed

• Conversations > Prevent starting a conversation with users that can’t access the report

• Conversations > Improved scrolling when there is a new message is sent out

• Data Entry > Guiding text for entering data can be shown as comments if the narrative template and at least one narrative key is set

• Table > Improved ease-of-clicking on a column selector

Fixed

• General comments > When no narrative keys are defined, the comments control was being shown (DEV-23828)

• Table > When exporting to Excel, blank cells were created as empty text cells, causing basic excel arithmetic formulas, such as addition, to break (DEV-23895)

• Table > Row label cells of the empty row were not showing a navigation link (DEV-23904)

• Tile > When there is no variance label defined, the absolute variance was not left-aligned (DEV-23929)

• General comments > While playing a storyboard, copying from base / children / previous period was not working (DEV-23914)

• WebView > POV values were not applied in the embedded URL (DEV-23959)

20.4.4

Date: 12-02-2021

Added

• Conversations > Improved layout when multiple messages are sent by a single user in a short period of time

Fixed

• Table > Since version 20.4.0, loading reports was slow when there are tables with many rows and columns - slowdown was caused by annotations feature (DEV-23763).

• General comments > When CXO is set up with virtual directory, it was not possible to embed images in comments (DEV-23679)

• Source system manager > Since version 20.4.2, creating new sources was not possible (DEV-23788)

20.4.3

Date: 29-01-2021

Added

• Conversations > Feature disabled by default

• Conversations > Starting a conversation on a report

• Conversations > Sending conversation messages

Changed

• Enabled browser spellchecker for all comment and input fields, so that right-clicking on a word gives correct spelling suggestions. When in Comments editor, use CTRL + right-click to get the correct spelling suggestions.

• Dimension mappings > For a tabular connection, allow a custom member pattern to split tabular dimension can be split into e.g. MemberName and Description

Fixed

• Reports > When clicking on the home logo in top left corner, loading the home report sometimes took too long (DEV-23639)

• General comments > When CXO is set up with virtual directory, it was not possible to download an attachment (DEV-23624)

• In some cases, tooltips were not updated unless the page is refreshed (DEV-23660)

20.4.2

Date: 15-01-2021

Added

• Login > When logging in, user has to accept the end user license agreement to proceed

Changed

• Login > Improved styling and layout of the login screens

Fixed

• General comments > Narrative template was sometimes not showing when leaving and entering comment mode (DEV-22832)

• Mobile screens > Reports were getting overstretched when entering a comment mode (DEV-23453)

• Table > Lines between the rows were shown always even if formatting on rows had line before set explicitly to None (DEV-23579)

• Table > Space under column headers was colored with the background of the headers, instead of the first row with data (DEV-23581)

20.4.1

Date: 31-12-2020

Added

• Annotations > Allow admins to specify annotation color in color palettes (Designer > Shared Objects > Palette)

• General comments > Show message when changing the narrative of the master narrative report.

• General comments > Allow resizing on touch screens, when general comments are docked

Changed

• Annotations > Deleting an annotation only possible from the docked panel, after clicking to edit an annotation.

• Mobile screens > Improved layout when browsing reports

Fixed

• Designer > Automatic Item labels on Formula items were not working when dynamic expressions were used (DEV-23376)

• Charts > When some, but not all, of the bar series were stacked, the stacking of series was not correct (DEV-23283)

• Charts > When scrolling on touch devices, the charts were being zoomed (DEV-23452)

• Edit storyboard > When scrolling on touch devices, the storyboard pages were reordered (DEV-23450)

• Designer > Profile settings were not opening the correct profile page (DEV-23235)

• Data Entry > When a data entry report was just created, the error messages shown to the user were too generic (DEV-23372)

20.4.0

Date: 18-12-2020

Added

• Annotations > Feature enabled (was by default disabled since version 20.3.6)

• Annotations > Added audit trail for annotations so that users can view history and compare changes for each annotation.

• Annotations > Source system default for Show Annotations option. After upgrading, this option defaults to None.

Changed

• Mobile screens > Improved layout and interactions of POV in reports or storyboards

• Mobile screens > Improved layout when a storyboard is played

• Table > Showing annotations next to the table cell number or variance to avoid confusion which data point is annotated (was shown before left-aligned within the cell)

• Audit trail > Improved layout and styling of the audit trail dialogs

Fixed

• Load balancing > When a load balancer is rewriting the requested URL, the application was starting up (DEV-23273). More information on load balancing configuration can be found here.

• Charts > Data labels were not applying a custom formatting for stacked bars (DEV-23281)

• Users with POV overrides were not able to start the application (DEV-23323)

• Key message > On touch devices, the toolbar for was sometimes shown on top of the page, instead on top of the editor (DEV-23132)

• Source system manager > Login with SAML was not working when “ShowLinkToV6“ feature switch was turned off in the Configurator (DEV-23352)

• Installation > When VS C++ 2015-2019 was already installed, the installation was failing (DEV-23210)

• General comments > When there is a table in the comment, an inline pop-up for editing table was preventing the user from seeing what is typed (DEV-23399)

20.3.9

Date: 04-12-2020

Security

• Upgraded CXO to use JQuery to version 3.5.1. Older versions of JQuery used versions had potential security vulnerabilities.

  • To ease upgrading process, we still allow users to see the version-6 user interface. However, user interface of version-6 depends on an older JQuery version.
    We advise turning off feature ShowLinkToV6 in the Configurator after completing the upgrade to this version.

Added

• Table > Allow sharing annotations among reports. More information on options for showing annotations can be found here.

• Table > Adding / editing / removing annotations on Variance cells, all except ones with styles: Bar, Bar and Value

• Table > Added formatting options for annotations: color, link, bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough.

Fixed

• Predictive Forecast > Graphs were not generated when the yearly reporting is based on more than 12 periods (DEV-22968, DEV-21889)

• Table > When exporting to PDF, a page break was placed in the middle of the annotation text (DEV-22864)

• Table > Sometimes a horizontal scrollbar was shown even though the user could not scroll it (DEV-23138)

• Mobile screens > When browsing reports, top-level folders were not expanded if the search was ongoing (DEV-23197)

• Table > Variance numbers were vertically slightly misaligned when compared to other numbers in the table (DEV-23191)

20.3.8

Date: 20-11-2020

Added

• Table > Allow adding/editing annotations while Comments control is docked at the bottom of the screen

• Table > When exporting to PDF, if the comments are not shown, the annotations are now not shown too.

Changed

• Mobile screens > Improved layout for Browse Storyboards page

• Table > Optimized layout when the table does not grow vertically and has (a lot of) annotations.

• Table > Annotations are preserved if a formula changes will result in the same value.

  • Example 1: parameters in a sum formula are reordered

  • Example 2: average formula is replaced by a total sum divided by the number of summed items

Fixed

• Table > When a value is suppressed, the variances with style Background were still showing (DEV-22954)

• Table > While editing a line item comments that is wrapped (as configured in the format), the cursor was jumping to the end of the text (DEV-23115)

• Standard templates > Exporting to PDF in portrait mode was not shrinking the content to fit the page width (DEV-23093, DEV-23087)

• Multicolumn > Exporting to PDF was sometimes shrinking the report too much to make it fit on one page (DEV-23086)

• Browse reports > After searching and clicking on a report to open it, the report was not opened (DEV-23079)

• Key Message > When in comment mode, the toolbar options were sometimes misplaced on top of the page (DEV-23003)

• Comments > When in comment mode and the comments are docked, making docked panel smaller was not always working (DEV-23103)

• Table > Text cells were not truncated or wrapped, and the tooltip was missing (DEV-23133)

20.3.7

Date: 06-11-2020

Added

• Table > Annotations feature disabled by default

• Table > Adding / editing / removing annotations on Data cells without formulas

• Table > Adding / editing / removing annotations on Data cells with formulas

  • All formulas except Variance formulas with styles Bar, Bar and Value, Trend Arrow, Arrow, Background, Border, Traffic Light are supported

• Table > Source system defaults and control parameters showing annotations

• Browser support > Informative not-supported message when using Internet Explorer

Changed

• Storyboard > Layout and styling of Play Storyboards page

• Mobile screens > Alignments in the header bar

• Comments > Styling of comments when they are docked

Fixed

• When updating a report (e.g., by drilling in a table), controls kept indefinitely loading if there was an error after report update (DEV-22719)

• Removing a control from the report (in Edit Layout page) was giving an error (DEV-23014)

• Table > Data was not displayed properly when an empty row had format with Spacing set to Before (DEV-23012)

• Table > Long text in column header cells was cut off when exporting to PDF (DEV-22817)

• Charts > Horizontal and vertical alignment was not applied on the chart legend (DEV-22825)

• Installer > During upgrade or installation, .NET Framework 4.8 was not automatically downloaded (DEV-22833)

• Table > Spacing at the bottom was too big, when there are no annotations in a table (DEV-22953)

20.3.6

Date: 23-10-2020

Added

• Data Entry > Saving not possible if there are duplicates of row or column member (or member combinations)

• Data Entry > Tooltips of “Synchronize Cube” button now show if the cube syncing is just requested or already ongoing

Changed

• Mobile screens > Layout of report and storyboard titles to improve readability

• Data Entry > Allow removing multiple rows or columns

Fixed

• Data Entry > Pasting numbers to member cells was not possible (DEV-22746)

• Data Entry > When right-clicking on the last row, the options to remove row and insert below were not visible (DEV-22744)

• Data Entry > Users without “Edit Datawarehouse Data” permission were able to see “Edit dimension hierarchy” link (DEV-22815)

• Data Entry > Synchronizing the cube was possible while saving data was ongoing (DEV-22750)

• Waterfall > Changing selection from absolute to relative variance was causing a report error in case of missing data (DEV-22721)

• Table > Row header text was smaller than other text, when font is shrunk to fit the table content (DEV-22897)

20.3.5

Date: 09-10-2020

Added

• Value tree control

• User synchronization mechanism > Updating user groups for users via an API

• User synchronization mechanism > Deleting users via an API

• Link to CXO changelog in license info pop-up

• Option to change application without logging out, if a single-sign-on login mechanism is used

Fixed

• Multicolumn > Table was not fully expanded when header cells are wider than the number cells (DEV-22718)

• Financial statement and multicolumn > Columns were having a wrong order, last column was shown as first (DEV-22709)

• Report was not deleted if it had a key message (DEV-22697)

• Table > Selected row icon (listen-to) was sometimes disappearing after interacting with the table (DEV-22623)

• Charts > Vertical axis labels were cut off if there are no labels on the horizontal axis (DEV-22595)

• Table > Rows were cut off when tables span multiple pages (DEV-22506)

20.3.4

Date: 25-09-2020

Added

• User synchronization mechanism > Command line interface

• User synchronization mechanism > Add users via an API

Changed

• Reduced whitespace around the chart to improve small chart controls (especially ones with data labels)

• Comments control is not shown when exporting to PDF if there are no comments

Fixed

• Table > Colored header cells were appearing over row headers when row headers are frozen (DEV-22500)

• When setting POV before playing a storyboard, searching POV was not giving any results (DEV-22494)

• When playing a storyboard, searching POV was unexpectedly showing an outdated report popup (DEV-22502)

• Multicolumn report template was not exported properly when exporting to fit on page (DEV-22468)

• iOS app was crashing when opening a report with a label control (DEV-22481)

20.3.3

Date: 25-09-2020

Internal release only.

20.3.2

Date: 11-09-2020

Changed

• Renamed Configurator settings for custom fonts

• Browse Storyboard page now has a more compact layout

• Enable CXO to be embedded in the iframe, if allowed by the configuration. Default: not allowed.

• PDF Exporting of tables that go over multiple pages to repeat table headers on every page

• Title in the browser tab to be more specific (e.g. to allow user to bookmark easier)

Fixed

• Light user was not able to open a storyboard page that contained a link to a report this user did not have access to (DEV-22366)

• News control was cut off when exported to PDF (DEV-22389)

• Saving a key message was failing after changing a point of view (DEV-22410)

20.3.1

Date: 04-09-2020

Added

• Allow using a custom font

• Share storyboard > Showing confirmation message when adjusting roles

• Digital signature for CXO installer so that Unknown publisher popup is not shown when installing / updating CXO

• Keep Inactive button in the Outdated report pop-up

Changed

• Styling of the email notifications to match the new UI

• Opening Error page in case the user goes to a email notification link that is not valid

Fixed

• Variance bar tooltip was not showing unchanged number (DEV-22022)

• Outdated report pop-up was unexpectedly shown when changing a key message (DEV-22330)

• Financial statement was not correctly show LabelBaseCategory in multiple lines (DEV-20806)

• Table > Percent point tooltips was not shown with precision 2, like percentage values (DEV-22171)

• Bridge data labels were cut off when zooming in and out (DEV-22221)

Deprecated

• WebView report template

20.3.0

Date: 24-08-2020, requires manual action after upgrading

Major UI update, please check CXO 20.3 Release Notes.