This topic provides details about the enhancements in Composer 24.1. To purchase this product, contact insightsoftware Sales.

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Composer v24.1.2 Feature Enhancements

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SAP S/4HANA Support

Composer now includes an SAP S/4HANA connector. See Manage the SAP S/4HANA Connector.

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Enhanced Filter Security Capabilities

We’ve expanded the filter capabilities to present data more securely to your users. Filter values can be shown in masked format if you want to filter based on confidential data.
  • To enable, disable Filtering for fields in a data source for one or more data columns on the Fields tab of that data source.
  • Next, set the Value and Display fields in your filter snippets based on your needs.
  • When you view tool tips or hover over fields that have Filtering disabled, you won’t see the actual values. Instead, you’ll see a generic reference, such as a count of “filter values” or a series of asterisks ******.
Important: Applied filter values that later have Filtering disabled to not automatically mask or hide those fields. You must recreate the filter that uses these values.
You can now set and apply filters to filter snippets. Select a source to apply the filter in the filter snippet. See Filter Data With Masked Fields. This means:
  • Filtered data columns can’t be added to new visuals.
  • When you add a new filter snippet, you can’t use those columns as a Value Column users can see.
    • If you enable Use Value Column as Display Column , the column is hidden and can’t be selected.
    • If you disable Use Value Column as Display Column, the column is visible and the data can be included in the filter snippet, masked. Select a different value for the Display Column , as the original column name can’t be selected.
  • Use a filtered column to connect widgets in the filter snippet. When you use the filter snippet to filter visuals by that filtered column and values, the tool tips only show that the data is filtered by a filter value, not the actual data used from the filtered column.
  • When you or your users export visual data that includes information from a filtered column, the information is not included in plain text.
Secure fields by data columns to secure filtering and mask data and exported data
  1. Navigate to the Fields tab of your data source, then select Bulk Field Capabilities. The Bulk Field Capabilities work area opens.
  2. Find your fields by scrolling, searching, or filtering.
  3. Select the toggle in the Filtering column to disable (slide left) each field as needed.
  4. When you have completed your changes, select Save.
  5. Your changes are applied, in bulk, to this data source.
For example, you want to disable county name information for a data source that includes state-wide data, but still allow the information to be used securely by your users.
  • Disable the County Name Filtering column on the Fields tab of your data source.
  • Create a filter snippet in your dashboard that uses County Name to filter data, but use a different data column, such as Internal County Code , as the Display Column for your filter snippet.
  • When users view or interact with visuals affected by the filter snippet that includes the County Name , they see only that the data has been filtered by filter values, and not by specific county names or county codes.
  • The same generic information is provided in the auto-generated visual description, and when the visual data is exported.
Additionally, you can now disable:
  • User access to filter snippets.
  • User access to add filters to a filter snippet if you do allow the user of filter snippets.
Note: Work with technical support to disable these in your environment. If you disable these settings, the change affects all tenants within your environment.

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Lite Dashboard for Self-Service Environments

We’ve added a simplified lite dashboard to your Composer environment. You can now embed a lite dashboard complete with its own interactivity settings, designed to get your users up and running quickly and easily. Users can create dashboards with the default visual format as a table visual. Once created, users can:
  • Edit the visual’s fields and settings, and optionally change the visual type to an available visual type.
  • Select an available visual type if the data source doesn’t support a table visual, then edit the visual as needed.
Available visual types include: Table (default), Bars, Bars:Multiple Metrics, Donut, KPI, Packed Bubbles, Pie. Customize this list further in your embed code as needed to add or remove other visual types. Sample embed code: 
embedManager.createComponent('lite-dashboard',
	const componentConfig = {
		"dashboardId": "<dashboard-ID>",
		"componentInstanceId":"<component-instance-ID>",
		"type":"lite-dashboard",
		"application":{
			"banner":false,
			"logo":true
		},
		"interactivityProfileName":"lite",
		"theme":"modern",
		"editor":{ 
			"placement": "docRight" 
		},
		"header": { 
			"title": "My Lite Dash"
			"showActions": false,
			"showTitle": false,
			"visible": false
		},
		"availableVisTypes" : [`HISTOGRAM`,`BOX_PLOT`,`HEATMAP`]
	}
);

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Suppress Time Zone Labels

You can now opt to suppress time zone labels in the Composer user interface. After upgrading to this version, you can update the Data Details of your time fields in a data source and suppress the labels. Select Not Specified instead of a time zone to hide time zone information in the user interface and when users export data. Suppress time zone labels in your environment
  1. Navigate to the Fields tab of your data source and select the field with the Time data type you want to modify.
  2. In the Data Details section of the settings sidebar menu, select Not Specified from the Time Zone drop down selector.
  3. Repeat for any other time fields you’d like to suppress the time zone label for.
  4. When you have completed your changes, select Save.
Your changes are applied to this data source. The next time visuals or dashboards that use these updated fields are opened, the time zone information is suppressed and information is displayed in the users’ local time zone. Time zones are also suppressed in all exports that use this data source.

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Content Migration Flow Improvements and Breaking Changes Management Expansion

  • When you import dashboards, visuals, and sources, Content Distributor group members and other users with appropriate privileges can enable Share Default Access With All Users. When enabled, in the UI or as an API option, users in the tenants you selected for import can access to these resources immediately based on default access levels.
  • You can now import and export visuals directly in the Visual Gallery user interface and via API. Import and export one or more visuals in bulk. Import and export includes any supporting object the visuals are dependent on, such as data sources and connections.
Select a JSON file to import your visuals to the visual gallery and select import options.
  • When you select Ignore Warnings during import, a Tags field is added to the Import work area. Add or create tags to apply to objects that do not import cleanly.
  • If errors occur during import, Composer adds the tags you select to the affected objects.
  • Use these tags to find the dashboards, visuals, filter snippets, or sources you need to fix.
For more information, see Import Dashboards, Import Visual Gallery Visuals, and Import or Export Sources.