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Enh : Enhancement
Req : Requirement (new feature)

HELICAL INSIGHT 4.1.1.18666 GA release:

Login:
#Enh: Maintain stateless session using JWT

Datasource:
#Req: Migration of globalConnection.xml from file based to DB
#Req: Supporting datasource conncurrency [tested with 1500 connections] #Req: Improved datasource performance [tested with 1500 connections]

Metadata:
#Req: Implemented pagination in metadata module resulting in much better performance. Pagination can be seen in the listing of datasources, tables, columns and joins.

Adhoc:
Enh: Improvement in the charts default look and feel like thousand separator, alignments of text and numbers etc
Bug: Some of the known bugs on various charts customizations have been fixed

HELICAL INSIGHT 4.1.0.18067 GA

Below are the available feature list in detail as per module along with their availability status as per Enterprise Edition.

Login:

#Enh: Introduced new rules and enhanced existing rules for SSO

#Enh: Stateless session, Login and Logout implementation for JWT. More useful when we want to have sessionless implementation in case of load balancing servers.

#Req: Supporting ADFS SSO

Admin:

#Bug: Logged-in username corrected on navbar, changes for Canned Report embed url

#Enh: Added cookieFilter in web.xml to resolve CORS (cross origin) while Embedding Helical Insight Application

#Bug: Navigation changes for Tutorials based on Logged-in users

#Req: Added ADFS management interface to generate federationmetadata.xml

#Bug: Resolved “violation of foreign key” issue while deleting User, Organization and Role

User:

#Bug: Allow special character as report parameter while doing HWF scheduling

#Bug: Resolved few issues of EFWSR (EFW – Saved Result file : generated when email scheduling is being done)

#Req: Email and Schedule window can be triggered in new window using frontend API for Adhoc Report, EFW and Canned Report

#Bug: Resolved Groovy report export issue at report level export, email and scheduling

#Bug: Resolved License expire notification at report level for Canned Report in main window and new window

#Enh: Few Sample Reports modified because of custom column security implementation

Datasource:

#Req: Allow special characters into Username field

#Req: Allow extra parameter in JDBC URL to filtering Database, Catalog, Schema and Tables

Metadata:

#Bug: Resolved Metadata file name issue in create and edit modes

#Bug: Resolved saving of metadata issue by removing column when table is not cached

#Bug: Resolved generate report issue with duplicated column

#Enh: Resolved issue of showing same query in both Dynamic view and Query view while switching

#Req: Warning message while closing metadata view modal window by pressing ESCAPE button

#Bug: Resolved saving metadata issue by removing Catalog/Schema name in case of Groovy connection or any

#Bug: Resolved issue of “Add to metadata” with selected tables in case of more tables

#Bug: Resolved issue of Metadata Security expression overriding in case of edit existing expression

#Bug: Resolved expand table issue by removing Catalog/Schema name in case of Groovy connection or any

Adhoc Report:

#Enh: Changes in Report properties: Added multiple charts customization properties and fixed many known bugs of already existing charts customization options

#Bug: Resolved issue of Slider component in case of report migration

#Req: Applied metadata filter on file browser in report-edit for change metadata via settings

#Bug: Resolved issues of report level export having Null data

#Enh: Supporting new version of Presto Database

#Bug: Resolved Groovy report export issue at report level, export in created and edit modes

Report CE:

#Bug: Resolved issue of Groovy Dynamic report cache for different users

Canned Report:

#Bug: Resolved issue of user actions such as Drag and drop in embedded mode

#Bug: Resolved issue of cache in main window for Bean-Datasource

#Enh: Last modified Cache details added in main and new window

Dashboard Designer:

#Req: Added Multiselect checkbox as filter component

#Bug: Resolved issue of Displaying DateRangePicker values

#Bug: Resolved issue of Input component as showing same value in multiple input components

#Bug: Resolved issue of Designer edit through url having permission level 2

#Req: Converted Report/Group level settings (like filter, edit etc) into context menu for easier access

Security

#Enh: Enhanced security for Helical Insight APIs and URLs [urlContext.xml and services.xml] to avoid sharing and data security issue
#Req: Implemented 2 different rules for EFW, ReportCE, Canned Report and Designer Report to avoid SQL Injection

#Req: Implemented 4 different rules for adhoc report to avoid SQL injection : default, strict-metadata, strict, stripped

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