New Feature: Custom markers as data shapes in Grid, Micro, Bar, Column, Line, Area and Sparkline charts. (user guide)
New Feature: Grid Chart: Added CSS Specification for custom CSS styles. (user guide)
New Feature: Subtotals: Users can format the Grouped headers and Values separately in the Grid Chart and Micro Chart.
New Feature: Grand Totals: Introduced more formatting options for Grand totals in Grid Chart and Micro Chart.
New Feature: Column range: Now you can use date attributes as start and end values.
New Feature: Property editor window is now resizable, preserving new size per session per user.
New Feature: Bubble Chart: Now user can change the bubble size proportional to the metric value.
Enhancement: Added support for attribute form specific macros in the data labels and tooltip.
Enhancement: MicroStrategy 2020: More chart specific options are added to the context menu (enable/ disable marker, invert chart).
Enhancement: Grid chart: Added header and body background color option in “Column formatting” menu.
Enhancement: Added a simple tick marker in all the vitara charts.
Enhancement: Line Chart: In the series properties added the option to modify line thickness.
Enhancement: Waterfall chart: Added ‘Show label outside the bars’ option in the data labels menu.
Enhancement: Marker list is consistent in all the places where we have a marker menu.
Bug Fix: Waterfall category labels truncated on horizontal axis for charts saved pre 4.1.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Manually adjusted column grouped widths are not retaining their state from 4.3 version.
Bug Fix: Calendar heatmap: Web page is going unresponsive with 4 calendar heatmaps.
Bug Fix: Gird chart in Mobile: Unable to expand column grouping.
Bug Fix: Select Target option is enabled for all the charts. There are a set of charts in which this option should not be active.
Bug Fix: IPad Library App: Use as filter property in dossiers and documents - Filter is working one time on one element.
Bug Fix: Micro chart: Tooltip is showing attribute element position number instead of attribute values.
Bug Fix: Drilling in Pie chart: There is a new option “Color By Last Attribute” in Appearance property of the drilled chart, which is the property of Report Service Documents.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Metric columns alignment mismatching with grand totals row.
Bug Fix: Almost all charts are going below the chart area in IE, when we enable the play axis option.
Bug Fix: Grid chart in IE: The grid chart is showing horizontal scroll bar when ‘Fit to Grid width’ is enabled.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Grand totals values in ratio aggregation are getting rounded off incorrectly.
Bug Fix: “Show Labels Outside Bar” is not working for the negative values.
Bug Fix: Axis labels number format is not supporting Space as thousand separator.
Bug Fix: Value axis labels are not showing dollar sign (option is added to show axis labels in metric format).
Bug Fix: Value axis labels are not showing in percentage format, if one metric has completely null values.
Bug Fix: Grid Chart: Bugfix: Thresholds defined at the ‘no grouping’ level are not showing at the ‘row grouping’ level.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: The grouping column is shown twice in the grouping drop zone.
Bug Fix: An extra Grid line is showing below the category axis line after enabling small multiples.
Bug Fix: Waterfall chart - The charts created in 4.1.3 are not showing the value axis labels, when opened in 4.3.
Bug Fix: IBCS - The Data Indicator Metric dropdowns in the IBCS features are not populating the metrics automatically.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: The grand totals are not shown for the first column if there is only one attribute in the chart that is pivoted.
Bug Fix: Grid & Micro charts: Once a font family and font size is set for a column, then they are not being able to change back to defaults.
Bug Fix: Grid/Micro Chart: The ‘copy error log’ tab in the ‘About’ tab is just giving the text ‘undefined’.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Pivoting is changing the order of the data.
Bug Fix: In the Axes properties menu, “Reverse Direction of Data” is not working properly.
Bug Fix: Grid and micro charts: Column formatting is not working on the Grouped column.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Thresholds are not working when we move any metric to rows, and pivot the “Metrics” column then apply thresholds.
Bug Fix: Waterfall chart - This error “TypeError: Cannot read property ‘t’ of undefined” occurs in documents at run-time.
Bug Fix: Vitara Line chart groups by Attribute DESC instead of ID when DESC displayed.
Bug Fix: German Locale: In Simple KPI chart, the negative percentage values are interpreted as normal values.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Add a vertical scroll bar to manage column grouping dialogue box.
Bug Fix: Error bars editor window is not showing all the metrics available in the chart.
Bug Fix: Shortened format is rounding the values in thousands, now rounding will be done to only two significant digits.
Bug Fix: Error when data has nulls and the property “Hide null/zero toggle behavior” is enabled.
Bug Fix: Column range looks different in dossiers and in documents.
Bug Fix: The elements with 0 metric value are showing color.
Bug Fix: Dual rendering problem in internet explorer.
Bug Fix: If we apply MicroStrategy’s HyperCards, the category axis labels from vitara charts are disappearing.
4.3.4
Bug Fix: Support for rendering charts for users’ session set to Korean locale
4.3.3
Bug Fix: Support for multiple custom fonts with spaces in the names
4.3.2
Bug Fix: In mobile, when we deselect the item to remove the filter is does not trigger a refresh of the targeted visualization.
Bug Fix: Grid Chart: In White theme pivot headers are not properly aligned.
Bug Fix: If the data has nulls and if the properties “Hide null/zero toggle behavior” and “Show Totals” are enabled, vitara charts are showing error message.
Bug Fix: Heatmap chart is showing error message when we have null data.
Bug Fix: Bar/Column/Tornado: Data labels: ‘Show labels outside the bar’ feature is not working for negative values.
Bug Fix: Mekko chart is showing some of the tooltip labels two times.
Bug Fix: Bullet chart showing error message when we have null data.
Bug Fix: Grid chart: When grouping by 3 or more columns, the last level of the grouping retains its column.
4.3.1
Bug Fix: Text node is not showing available macros in the text editor and when we hover on suggestions icon.
Bug Fix: Plotlines not working in column chart in IBCS mode.
Bug Fix: Waterfall chart category axis labels are truncating on horizontal axis for visuals created in Pre 4.2 version.
Bug Fix: Secondary axis label’s text formatting is not applying.
Bug fix: Grid and micro charts show two context menus (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Macro dropdown is not visible in free-form layout (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Tooltip for D3 charts is positioned incorrectly in free-form layout (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Grid chart: Chart is showing a runtime error “Cannot read property ‘removeChild’ of undefined”.
Bug Fix: Water fall chart showing an error when legend is enabled from the context menu (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Enabling/disabling data labels is not working for some charts (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Context menu in all charts is updated to show only supported properties (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Calendar heatmap & Slope Charts show incorrect state for data labels in context menu (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Calendar heatmap: Data filtering is inconsistent with different sort orders when the data is non-continuous.
Bug Fix: Packed Bubble: Chart does not focus when plot area is clicked (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Small multiples feature breaks when attribute forms are enabled in the chart (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Drill chart: Changing properties of the target chart gets applied to the main chart.
Bug Fix: Drill Chart: Unable to focus on the chart when target chart properties are applied without drilling to the target chart at least once. (MicroStrategy 2020 related issue).
Bug Fix: Data labels are showing [object Object] text when we enable error bars.
Bug Fix: Micro Chart: Tooltip doesn’t display percentages on trend line for Micro charts.
Bug Fix: Micro Chart: Tooltips show integers instead of attributes.
Bug Fix: Small multiples average is inconsistent in documents (IBCS).
Bug Fix: Column range does not render with a particular date format metrics.
Bug Fix: Column range does not show data labels and tooltips with date format metrics (French locale).
4.3.0
Support for MicroStrategy 2020
Context (right click) menu now supported when used with MSTR 2020
Support for displaying multiple attribute forms
Support for Error bars in bar, line and column charts
Ability to add links in tooltips
Feature: User can add multiple attribute forms to display on the chart.
Feature: Added error bars in series options for bar, column and line charts.
Feature: Grid Chart: UI: “Icons” renamed to “Markers”.
Feature: Grid Chart: Drag metrics collection in the pivot drop zones.
Feature: Grid Chart: Pivot columns will now collapse and show totals.
Bug fix: packed bubble: data labels does not show first attribute value.
Bug fix: Series by attribute with only one attribute does not align bars with axis labels.
Bug fix: custom properties defined with white-space are not applied.
Bug fix: colors set for series does not get reset.
Bug fix: Library configuration page (plugins/VitaraCharts/config.jsp) is not displaying configuration success message.
Bug fix: Updated waterfall property editor state to reflect the default chart state fixes - Waterfall chart: The “Hide Axis” checkbox in the ‘Value Axis’ menu is not working.
Bug fix: In the ‘IBCSglobal.txt’ file if we make default view as IBCS view, #UseIBCSAsDefaultViewMode= true, the “Enable IBCS View” checkbox in the IBCS properties menu should be in the enabled state. But it is in disabled state.
Bug fix: Micro chart: The ‘Hide column’ option of the ungrouped attribute is not saving its state.
Bug fix: Grid chart: If we drag and drop metrics into the pivot drop zone (Drag here to set column labels) those metrics are going hidden.
Bug fix: Sparkline chart: Chart is showing a run time error, when we enable both the Show all category labels and Shared value axis options in the small multiples menu.
Bug fix: Waffle: In IE extra header label is shown in the list mode.
Bug fix: Cross site scripting security vulnerability via import data.
Bug Fix: IBCS: In web documents, ibcs tab is not updating dynamically after enabling both the small multiples and ibcs view.
Bug Fix: In the ‘IBCSGlobal.txt’ file if we turn on default IBCS view setting, then the charts created in older builds also showing in IBCS view.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart - The metric color picker option is broken.
Enhancement: Small multiples: added support for thresholds to calculate on data from all the charts (top, bottom, average, percentage).
Enhancement: XY charts: added option to set tick interval in axis properties.
Bug fix: Simple KPI: labels get clipped within the plot area.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Tooltip is not showing when move to rows is applied on columns.
Bug fix: Sankey: Multiples nodes from different attributes are merged into one when they have the same attribute value.
Bug fix: Pie chart: In pie chart the formatting does not apply to the total value, when option “Show Total in Center Label” is selected.
Bug fix: IBCS: Disabled show all category labels functionality for IBCS charts.
All Charts: added consistent styling across charts (default font-family and font-sizes for labels are the same for all charts).
Bug fix: Grid chart: The display style option is not working for “Values” collection.
Bug fix: Grid chart: The metrics can be visible in both rows and columns of the chart.
Bug fix: Grid chart: When we apply bars as thresholds, the text and background colors are not showing in the chart.
Bug fix: Micro chart: The ‘Hide column’ option of the ‘Trend By’ attribute is not saving its state.
Bug fix: Grid chart: The tooltip for group aggregation is showing wrongly when we enable pivoting.
Bug fix: Micro Chart: If we replace the existing attribute in the ‘Trend by’ drop zone with another attribute, micro chart is behaving in an unusual manner.
Bug fix: Grid chart: When metric pivoting is applied the customer needs grand totals to display on right/left hand side of the grid chart.
Bug fix: Grid chart: Thresholds are not working when ‘Move to Rows’ feature is enabled.
Bug fix: Grid chart: Columns lose formatting if pivoting is enabled.
Enhancement: Grid Chart: Retain the state of column group expansion.
Bug Fix: In the Packed bubble chart and Calendar Heatmap chart the data labels and tooltip are not working properly when the dossier has D3WordCloud chart.
All charts in Mobile: The multiple attribute forms are not displaying for the second attribute in the drop zone.
MicroStrategy 2020:
Added support for loading external libraries (check for chart loading errors in all platforms)
Added context menu support (check for error in right click and properties menu changes) 546
Bug fix: Value axis start value options not working when small multiples enabled in all charts. 547
Bug fix: “Auto compute start value” in Waterfall chart when group by/small multiples enabled.
Bug fix: Bar/Column charts: Play axis is showing twice if any make any changes in legend menu
Bug fix: Calendar heatmap is showing so much empty space.
Bug fix: Tooltip and data labels are showing “NaN” text when metric has text instead of numbers.
Bug fix: Thresholds on chart background is not applying in the small multiples enabled mode.
Bug fix: Charts showing vertical scroll bar when we apply ‘Small multiples’.
Bug fix: XY Charts: Axis labels are not aligning properly and overlapping with other axis labels in some cases.
Bug fix: Invalid data like non number characters within metric columns are nullified and the specific columns meta info is updated.
Feature: Shortened format: Added option in global.txt to select formatting of negative numbers
Bug fix: Packed bubble: chart is showing scroll bars when legend is positioned on the top.
Bug fix: Simple KPI: In web documents, threshold target does not show ‘Title’ when small multiples is enabled.
Bug fix: Charts with play axis show empty when exported to pdf.
Bug fix: Tornado: value axis not showing percentage format for axis labels.
Bug fix: Stacked chart: chart shows axis labels values multiplied by 100 when the data is of percentage values.
Bug fix: MicroStrategy 2020: CHM chart not loading (showing only spinner).
MicroStrategy 2020: Context menu: Added support for d3 charts.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart: “Auto Compute Start Value” is not working for negative values.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart: When there are two attributes in the chart, then the ‘enable small multiples’ checkbox is not having any response.
Feature: Implemented point highlighting to Waterfall chart.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart: If zero is the data label, then the data label is showing twice.
Feature: Grid/Micro Charts: ‘Export to CSV’ option is removed.
Bug fix: Bars widths are changing when we set Color by attribute.
4.2.5
Bug fix: stacked charts: The legend overlaps with the chart when positioned on the same side as the stack totals, axis labels go out of plot area when axis is selected to display on the opposite side.
Upadate: “Hide Axis” option will only hide labels and axis line.
Update: Horizontal waterfall data label position modified to be shown as legacy version.
Bug fix: Waterfall: Disabling ibcs still shows delta views with normal charts.
Bug fix: Waterfall:Scaling of charts displaces start position of the axis.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart: Axis labels extending into the chart.
Bug fix: Micro Chart: Trend by column goes hiding after grid chart is edited.
Bug fix: Micro Chart: Pivot drop zones are visible in documents when edited grid chart.
Bug fix: Grid chart: The show/hide option is not working for the ‘Metrics’ column after applying the ‘Move to rows’ option.
Bug fix: Grid chart: I have a null attribute in the grid and applied move to rows for a metric, then the chart is showing “[object Object] in the place of null values of the attribute.
Bug fix: Grid chart: Attribute name is showing in both the group and pivot drop zones.
Bug fix: Grid chart: The scenario “Metric grouping then attribute grouping” is not saving its state.
Update: Grid Chart: Column grouping will be cleared when used “Move to rows” option.
New Feature: Waterfall chart: Option added to change bar width in the “Appearance” tab property menu.
Update: Waterfall Chart: + sign and - sign prefixes to the category axis labels will appear only when IBCS view is enabled. For the normal mode only the - sign prefix is used for formatting category axis labels.
Bug fix: Small Multiples feature in documents: With only one attribute present in the chart if we enable the small multiples, the category axis labels are replaced with numbers.
Update: Gridlines disabled by default in Heat map, Mekko, Tornado, Sparkline, Slope and other non XY charts.
Bug fix: Category labels extending into the plot area.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Every time we enable/disable “Toggle Animation” checkbox console is showing error message.
Bug fix: Micro chart: Bar charts in trendline view is not scaling uniformly.
Bug fix: Custom Palettes: Custom palettes are showing as misconfigured.
Bug fix: Having white space in custom property values is not applying.
4.2.4
Bug fix: Attribute stuck: In MicroStrategy 2019 patch release 2 and 3, when we drag and drop an attribute into the “Category” drop zone the attribute will stuck in the drop zone.
4.2.3
Update: Grid Chart: The values headers are visible after the Metrics to rows is applied and pivoting is done.
Bug fix: Waterfall max column width set to 50.
Bug fix: CustomStyle.css caching issue.
Bug fix: Waterfall error “invalid small multiples criteria” for dashboards saved in Pre 4.2 versions.
Update: Waterfall default styling update:
Pre v4.2: value axis labels enabled, grid lines enabled, data labels disabled, dynamic bar widths, and category axis line invisible.
From v4.2: value axis labels disbaled, grid lines disabled, data labels enabled, fixed bar width, and category axis line thickness.
Bug fix: Waterfall chart error “highcharts error 14” on null metrics and null attribute elements.
Update: Simple KPI: scaling fix:
a. When font size is defined for any label.
b. when markers are enabled (marker size option is removed from thresholds).
Bug fix: Custom palette set as default is not applying by default.
Bug fix: Scaling is not consistent when font-size is applied to any label.
Bug fix: SimpleKPI Chart: Eective autoscaling and upadated the basic rendering of the chart from svg to html.
4.2.2
Bug fix: Legend and axis labels are not visible when background image is enabled.
Bug fix: IBCS features rendering issue on mobile.
Bug fix: Aligning legend on top while using small multiple layout causing layout to shift downwards in chrome.
Bug fix: Error on Export to Pdf with IBCS options enabled.
4.2.1
Bug fix: Presentation mode black background issue.
4.2.0
IBCS Certification.
Localization of property editors (now available English, German, Spanish & French).
Apply default custom color palettes.
Apply a default custom font.
Customise formats (of axis labels, data labels etc) via css.
Improved usability and configurability of the Waterfall chart.
Grid performance improvements.
Metrics in rows and attributes in columns are not allowed in Vitara Charts with exception for KPI Animation chart.
Update: Drilling: Added option to show the drill preview in the tooltip of the source chart.
Update: Axes formatting for Tornado Chart.
Update: “Stack by metric” option in web documents (Stacked Bar/Column Charts).
Update: In the font selector the custom fonts are visible.
Update: Grid chart: Thresholds: added option to enable/disable markers.
Update: Grid Chart: added sorting for pivoted columns.
Update: Renamed “Vitara Spacer” to “Vitara Text Node” and added text properties to compose custom text with macros.
Update: The default data label position for bar and column charts to be outside the bars.
Update: Grid Chart: Added option to turn on/off animations in the chart while sorting the data.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Image based attribute forms.
Bug fix: Play Axis cannot be seen until background image opacity is reduced.
Bug fix: Plotlines and thresholds created in English language user are not working when we open the same document in other language user (French).
Bug fix: VitaraCharts-Web Documents-Select target is not working properly when we enable on two attributes.
Bug fix: CHM chart: The legend text size is not reflecting, when we increase the size of legend.
Bug fix: All Charts in Documents: When we apply Background image in two different charts in one layout one chart is displacing.
Bug fix: Plotlines: If we remove the metric from the document on which the plotline was set, plotline editor is still showing the plotline set on the deleted metric.
Bug fix: KPI animation export to pdf: when the dossier is exported, background color is not applied in the pdf, when the chart is exported, pdf does not show correct data.
Bug fix: Simple KPI Chart: If small multiples are enabled, then ‘Above average’ and ‘below average’ threshold conditions are not working if targets are selected as “title’ or “background”.
Bug fix: Line, Area, Trellis & Sparkline charts: Markers are applied for gradient thresholds by default.
Bug fix: Marker positions are not updated on zoom.
Bug fix: Grid Chart - Sorting is not working on grouped column.
Bug fix: Grid and Micro Charts: Clear Sorting option under the advanced sorting tab in the hamburger menu is not working.
Bug fix: Grid chart: When you use bars in the trend line chart, for a given metric column, bars in all the rows should use the same scale. Right now they all seem to be independent.
Bug fix: In Grid Chart and Micro Chart when display style is trend line then the values shown in the tooltip are in a different format than the detailed rows.
Bug fix: Web documents-Select Target(Use as Filter)-If data has a special character, for example, & or ‘ filter is not working.
Bug fix: Some bars not showing when small multiples are enabled. The axis starts from the minimum value present in the chart. Due to this the bars with minimum value are not displaying in the chart.
Bug fix: When there is only one attribute used on the template for rendering the stacked bar chart, enabling and disabling small multiples gives error message “Invalid Small Multiples Criteria”.
Bug fix: If x-axis and y-axis values are negative percentage values then axis labels are not showing as percentage numbers.
Bug fix: Simple KPI chart is not showing the background image in the exported PDF file.
Bug fix: When there is no data, Vitara and MicroStrategy are both showing an error message.
Bug fix: Simple KPI chart/Bullet chart: Once we do modification to the text size in the data labels menu, or the marker size in the markers menu, then reset to default, labels/markers are losing the property to automatically resize as per the available space.
Bug fix: KPI Ring chart: If the outer most ring doesn’t have any value (null), then the default chart view doesn’t show any center data labels.
Bug fix: For the percentage metric if the first value is null, then axis labels values format is not showing as percentage.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Data is not displayed for a column if it is renamed with special characters.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: If a column has threshold applied on it and if we rename that column and save the document, then this error “TypeError: Cannot read property ‘rawValue’ of undefined” occurs at runtime on the chart.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Bars threshold width stays same for all rows if bar size is not specified.
Bug fix: Grid Chart: Bars threshold loses formatting if there is only one row in the chart.
Bug fix: Sanky Chart: Chart is not rendering, if attribute element names have special characters and if that attribute is used in the starting node.