What's New in GoodData Cloud Native?

GoodData.CN 3.27.0

Support for External Email Recipients

Administrators can now configure destinations that allow users to send alerts and scheduled exports to any email address, including those outside of your organization. For added control, you can disable the inclusion of dashboard links when sending to external recipients. See Create Destinations for details.

New Notification Panel for Alerts

In addition to receiving automatically triggered alerts via email and webhook channels, you can now also send alerts to a new notification panel. Located at the top of the web application, the notification panel is accessible from anywhere within the workspace. By clicking a notification, you can navigate directly to the widget that triggered the alert.

Notifications can be sent independently or alongside email and webhook alerts. See Create Destinations for details.

PostgreSQL Data Source SSL Validation

When setting up a PostgreSQL data source, the API/backend now requires at least one of the ssl or sslmode parameters.

Changes to Existing Data Sources

If your data source does not include ssl or sslmode in the JDBC URL, we will automatically add sslmode=prefer to keep things working as they are now. This ensures no breaking changes, as it was the previous default for the PostgreSQL driver.

However, we recommend switching to sslmode=verify-full for better security and to ensure encryption in transit protection.

Changes for New Data Sources

When creating a new data source via API, you must now include either ssl or sslmode in your request.

If you’re using a template to create data sources automatically, you need to update the template to include one of these parameters.

If not, the new data source creation will fail, which is different from how it worked before.

Customizable Time Granularity in Dashboard Date Filters

You can now customize the date filters in your dashboard to show specific time granularities, such as only days, months, or years. This is done using the dateFilterConfig metadata object in the GoodData UI. This feature allows you to optimize your dashboards by displaying only the date increments that are most relevant to your use case.

For more details, see the Date Filter Documentation.

GoodData.CN 3.26.0

Testing Connection to Destinations

Administrators can now edit a destination and test the connection to their webhook or SMTP server using the new Send test message button. This protocol is also initiated whenever you create and attempt to save a new destination, ensuring that all new destinations are automatically validated before they can be used.

New Visualization Tooltip when Drilling

On the dashboard, when drilling down from one visualization into another, users can now view the description of the target visualization by clicking a new tooltip icon.

Organization Admins Excluded from Recipients

In response to frequent feedback, we have removed users with organization.MANAGE permissions from the list of recipients in the automation dialog. If your solution requires sharing automations with these users, please ensure they are assigned explicit workspace permissions. This allows you to control which workspaces include admins as recipients and which do not.

GoodData.CN 3.25.0

Data Blending - Visualization Using Data from Multiple Sources

We are excited to announce the release of the Blending Data feature. This capability lets you create visualizations using metrics computed from multiple data sources. By blending data into a single result set using common conformed dimension attributes, you can now perform more flexible and powerful cross-source analysis. See the Blending Data section for more information.

GoodData.CN 3.24.1

M2M Authentication for Databricks

We are introducing M2M as a new authentication method to connect Databricks as a data source. We will also remove the option to use basic authentication with this data source by the end of January 2025, as it is no longer supported by Databricks.

See the Databricks section for more information.

Fix for Workspace Data Filter API

We resolved an issue where certain API usage scenarios could unexpectedly disable some workspace data filters. This hotfix mitigates the risk of unintended disablement and ensures the expected behavior of workspace data filters moving forward.

GoodData.CN 3.24

More Flexible Visualization Settings

You can now make visualizations smaller, giving you more freedom to design dashboards your way. The minimum width for visualizations is now 2, except for geocharts, which still have a minimum width of 6 due to technical reasons.

FlexConnect Data Source Support

Companies often have data spread across many sources, and with so many types of data storage, it’s hard to support all combinations with regular data connectors. FlexConnect helps solve this by letting you connect to almost any data source. This includes streaming data, structured and unstructured data, databases, third-party platforms, and machine learning models.

Previously, we used the names “FlexFunctions” and “Flight RPC” during the beta phase. The new name, “FlexConnect,” makes everything consistent in the user interface, repository, and API (which still used “FLIGHTRPC” before).

See the FlexConnect page for more information.

GoodData.CN 3.23

Monitor Metric Changes with Period Comparison Alerts

You can now create alerts that track metric changes compared to previous periods, helping you identify trends over time. With the new period comparison options, you can set alerts for relative (percentage) or absolute changes, or compare the current period to the same period last year for seasonal insights. See Create Alerts for details.

Set Up Alerts for Individual Attribute Values

You can now create alerts for individual attributes, enabling you to set up multiple alerts for a single metric based on different values of an attribute. For example, you can break down an alert for a budget metric into multiple alerts, one for each category of spending. See Create Alerts for details.

GoodData.CN 3.21

Enhanced Workspace Permission Management

We have expanded the Users & groups web interface to support full workspace permission management, including permissions previously available only through the API. Now, you can manage all user and user group permissions directly from the web interface, streamlining access control for your workspace.

For more information on workspace permissions, see Manage Workspace Permissions.

New Number Localization Options

We have added a Number separators option under Settings > Localization to support various numeric formats across languages. This feature allows you to apply region-specific number formats, such as European standards.

Improvement to Filtering with Primary and Secondary Labels

Attribute filters now utilize the primary unique label in the backend while displaying objects using their secondary label in the interface. This update allows for more precise filtering, showing separate entries for objects with identical secondary labels (e.g., two users named “John Doe”). See the Object Labels and Filters section for more details.

Column Naming in Repeater Visualizations

We are delivering a bug fix that changes how column names behave in repeater visualizations. Previously, column names were incorrectly based on attribute label names instead of those defined in the Analytical Designer. With this update, column names in repeater visualizations will now reflect the names set in the Analytical Designer.

We recommend reviewing your existing repeater visualizations to ensure displayed column names appear as expected.

GoodData.CN 3.20

Alerts and Scheduled Exports

You can now automate key actions in dashboards, helping you stay on top of your data without manual effort:

• Alerts: Set up alerts on dashboard widgets to monitor metrics and get notified when specific conditions are met.
• Scheduled Exports: Schedule regular exports of dashboards and dashboard widgets to receive them as PDF, CSV, or XLSX files.

Both features offer flexible delivery options, including integration with external systems via email or webhooks. Webhook payloads can be customized to support advanced workflows and automation. Initial setup by your organization’s admin is required to start using these features. See Automation in Dashboards for more details.

Visualization Switcher

We have enhanced the layout options in our dashboards by introducing the ability to combine multiple visualizations into a single widget, allowing users to switch between them seamlessly. This feature helps improve dashboard readability, optimizes space, and enhances interactivity and usability for end users.

See the Visualization Switcher section for more details.

❗Upcoming Change: Column Naming in Repeater Visualizations

We would like to inform you about a bug fix coming on November 4, 2024, regarding column renaming in repeater visualizations. Previously, column names were incorrectly based on label names instead of the names set in the Analytical Designer. Starting on this date, all columns in Repeaters will reflect the names defined in the Analytical Designer.

To ensure a seamless transition, we recommend you review and update your column names in the Analytical Designer as needed before November 4, 2024.

GoodData.CN 3.19

Saved Views

We have added a new feature that lets you easily load filters you often use on a dashboard. Now, you can save these filter combinations and quickly switch between them with just one click.

Additionally, we have added a new workspace permission that extends the VIEW permission, allowing users to save filters. This permission, called CREATE_FILTER_VIEW (or SAVE VIEWS in the GUI), must be applied alongside the VIEW permission. Users with ANALYZE or MANAGE permissions can save filters without needing any additional permissions.

Disable Cross-filtering

You can now disable cross-filtering for individual widgets on a dashboard. This allows for more tailored control over the behavior of specific widgets when crossfiltering is applied across a dashboard. See Cross-filtering for details.

GoodData.CN 3.17

New Language Support

We have expanded the language options for our user interface to include Australian English, Cantonese and Traditional Chinese, and Finnish. These languages are now fully supported in the Analytics Designer, Dashboards, and Metric Editor.

GoodData.UI 10.9.0

The newest version of GoodData.UI contains the following change:

You can now exclude specific attributes from the drill-down intersection. To configure this, use the addDrillDownForInsightWidget and modifyDrillDownForInsightWidget commands. Be aware that this may introduce breaking changes.

GoodData.CN 3.16

Rollup Totals

We are introducing a new type of total that aligns with the metric it aggregates. For example, if the metric is SUM, the rollup will also use SUM, and so on.

Rollup totals are “smart” aggregations. They are particularly useful for tables displaying metrics that represent average values, helping to avoid aggregations like averages of averages.

Example:

• Won Metric: The rollup represents the sum of all regions’ won amounts, making the Sum and Rollup (Total) equal.

• Avg. Won Metric: Instead of averaging the row’s values (which are already averages), the rollup averages the original underlying data before it was aggregated by the Won metric and divided into regions like East Coast and West Coast. Consequently, the value of Avg (an average of averages) differs from the Rollup (Total) average (an average based on the original data).

See Rollup Totals for details.

Disable Passing Filters in Drill-Throughs

You can now choose to exclude certain dates or attributes from being applied as filters when drilling into visualizations, dashboards, or drill-downs. This allows for more flexible data exploration by controlling which filters are passed during drills. See Disable Passing Filters in Drill-Throughs for more details.

GoodData Python SDK 1.25.0

New version of the Python SDK is available today. Please note that in this version we have dropped support for Python version 3.8, please ensure your Python version is up to date if you update to this version of GoodData Python SDK. For details see the changelog.

Upcoming Change - Improved Attribute Filters

We are going to update how attribute filters handle values with non-unique secondary labels, such as users sharing the same User Name.

Current Behavior:

When an attribute (e.g., User) has a unique primary label (e.g., User ID: 1234) and a more readable secondary label (e.g., User Name: John Doe), filtering by the User Name (if multiple users are named John Doe) results in all John Does being combined into a single filter value.

New Behavior:

The improved filter will display each attribute value even if the secondary label is not unique. This means you will see all instances of John Doe separately, with a tooltip showing the primary label (e.g., User ID) to help differentiate them. The filter’s behavior will be consistent across dashboards, visualizations, and drilling or exploring further interactions, regardless of which label is displayed.

This change is straightforward for end users. However, the metadata will have a new ‘Display as label’ parameter to indicate which label should represent the attribute in the GUI. This parameter must be considered when using filters in dashboards, visualizations, drilling, POST messages and events, SDK filter definitions, and cross-filtering. From now on, the filter will always be defined by the attribute’s primary label and values, which you should reflect when defining external filters (e.g., in POST messages).

We do not expect any changes to existing dashboards will be needed. The selection of text from the secondary label will be automatically transformed into a selection of individual attribute values with the value of the secondary label.

More details will be provided in upcoming release notes.

GoodData.CN 3.14

Multiple Data Sources in LDM (Beta)

We are introducing the ability to use datasets from different data sources in an LDM and connect them using common date dimension datasets. This allows you to apply a common date filter across datasets from different data sources. See Using Multiple Data Sources in an LDM.

Please note that this is a beta feature currently in early development, so its functionality is limited at this stage.

Upcoming Change - Improved Attribute Filters

We are going to update how attribute filters handle values with non-unique secondary labels, such as users sharing the same User Name.

Current Behaviour:

When an attribute (e.g., User) has a unique primary label (e.g., User ID: 1234) and a more readable secondary label (e.g., User Name: John Doe), filtering by the User Name (if multiple users are named John Doe) results in all John Does being combined into a single filter value.

New Behavior:

The improved filter will display each attribute value even if the secondary label is not unique. This means you will see all instances of John Doe separately, with a tooltip showing the primary label (e.g., User ID) to help differentiate them. The filter’s behavior will be consistent across dashboards, visualizations, and drilling or exploring further interactions, regardless of which label is displayed.

This change is straightforward for end users. However, there will be a new ‘Display as’ parameter in the metadata to indicate which label should represent the attribute in the GUI. This parameter must be considered when using filters in dashboards, visualizations, drilling, POST messages and events, SDK filter definitions, and cross-filtering. More details will be provided in upcoming release notes.

GoodData.CN 3.13

New Dashboard Filter Settings

We’ve added new options to give you more control over dashboard filters. You can now disable the “Reset All Filters” button to ensure users follow a guided data experience. Additionally, you can prevent filter changes from being saved in the user’s browser, so each visit shows the default filter settings. See Disable Resetting Filters.

Support for MotherDuck Data Source

You can now connect directly to a MotherDuck database and create a MotherDuck data source within GoodData. This new feature expands your data connectivity options, allowing you to integrate MotherDuck seamlessly into your workflows. See MotherDuck Data Source.

Snowflake Data Sources Support Key-Pair Authentication

We now support key-pair authentication for Snowflake data sources. This secure method allows you to connect using private and public key pairs, enhancing your data protection. See Create a Snowflake Data Source.

Support for Uploading CSVs Is Out of Beta

We are excited to announce that uploading CSV files as a data source is now fully supported and out of beta! You can now assemble a data source using an unlimited number of CSV files, with each file up to 200MB and a combined limit of 1GB. You can also disable this feature using the API. See Upload CSV Files.

GoodData.UI 10.5.0

Today we have released new version of GoodData.UI with the following notable changes:

• You can now specify the returnTo parameter with the backend deauthenticate function for a more seamless user experience.
• The export function now supports PDF options, offering greater flexibility in how you share your data.
• The visualizationObject will now be used instead of executionResult for export operations whenever possible, improving the efficiency of your exports.

GoodData Python SDK 1.22.0

We are also releasing a new version of the Python SDK today. This update includes only minor changes, such as version bumps, for details see the changelog.