Symphony24.2 Release Notes

This topic describes feature enhancements, resolved issues, and important information for Symphony 24.2.

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• Beta Features in this Release
• Feature Enhancements
• API Updates
• Resolved Issues
• Deprecated Features
• Removed Features
• Changes in this Version
• Known Issues

See also Deprecated Features Symphony 24 Release Notes Overview, Deprecated Features, and Symphony Release Vehicles and Third Party End of Life Policy.

Beta Features in This Release

This release of Symphony may contain some features and enhancements in a beta test state so you can try them out in a non-production environment. Assess how they work in your environment, or provide feedback to insightsoftware as part of a formal beta testing process.

Important: Do not use beta features in a production environment or on mission-critical systems.

Name	Beta Version	Description	Final Release Version
Logi AI	24.1	Logi Symphony introduces Logi AI, a comprehensive AI and Natural Language Generation (NLG) module designed to transform the way you analyze your data. Logi AI is a flexible AI platform that enables you to build and embed your own AI-powered chatbots directly into dashboards and visualizations in partnership with Flowise. Embedded chatbots help you elevate the user experience, making complex data analytics intuitive and effective for informed data-driven decisions. Adjust chatflows based on your use cases, domain policies, and security policies to ensure actionable insights are easily accessible and perfectly aligned with your strategic goals. Backup your chatflows manually. Four starter templates are available from insightsoftware in the Flowise market place. For more information, see Logi AI and Logi AI Solutions. Important: This feature is in Beta for testing purposes. Workflows and features may change before final production release.	Not yet released
Managed Dashboard Data Connections	23.4.1	You can now create data sources in Visual Data Discovery data cubes or data connectors. See Add Data Store ConnectionsAdd Data Discovery Data Store Connections and Define a SourceDefine a Visual Data Discovery Source..	24.2

Feature Enhancements

Title	Description
Logi Symphony in Cloud Marketplaces
Symphony SaaS for Small Business	SaaS for Small Business is a new way to leverage data analytics in your organization with Logi Symphony. We’ll deploy and manage your instance in the cloud, providing you and your users with secure access to the information they need to make data-driven decisions.
Source Creation Enhancements	We’ve enhanced the user experience for source creation by introducing visualization of data relationships for schemas. Navigate to the Relationship tab for a specific connection, then select a schema from the available schemas to view or edit the relationships for each. Select a schema and view the relationships in read only mode for your data sources in the Entity Details work area for that data source. When you’re working with joins, view available joins and create new joins as needed. Recommended joins and joins you add are visible in the join relationship visualization; from there you can draw new joins according to your specific needs. Visualization is available for multiple connection types. For Postgres connections, Symphony provides tables and default database relationship data from the connection. For more information, see Visualize Schemas and Joins, Source Creation Tab, and Visualize Joins.
SAP S/4HANA Support	Symphony now includes an SAP S/4HANA connector. See Manage the SAP S/4HANA Connector.
Upgrade to Symphony	You can now upgrade your Composer to Symphony. On upgrade, your users, groups, and tenants are imported into Symphony. Users need to update their passwords the first time they log in: see Migrate from Composer to Symphony for preparation and migration details.
Symphony 24.2 Enhancements
UI and UX Improvements	Many menus, icons, and names have been updated throughout Symphony and the modules available to you in your environment to be more in sync with their associated tasks. For example, some context menus have been reorganized, making it easier to find the tasks you wish to perform. Drill down into presented data by selecting Drill-down in available menus, replacing the use of Zoom in context menus, panels, and other work areas. Other uses of Zoom in your software unrelated to examining data in greater detail remain unchanged. Changing the look of a visual or visualization is now done by selecting Re-visualize from the appropriate menu or other work area. This replaces the use of the term Visual Style in the user interface.
Tenant Management Improvements	You can now customize your Symphony environment more easily on a per-tenant basis. After upgrading to this version: You can define custom attributes and default views for users on a per-tenant basis. Assign users to tenants more easily, populating tenant membership across all modules in use in your environment. Tenant IDs are now included in the screenshot service logs. Tenant membership is synchronized across all installed Symphony modules. For more information, see Using Custom Attributes to Filter Data by User.
Managed Dashboard Data Connections	Previously a beta feature, this feature is now available in all Symphony environments where you use Managed Dashboards along with Visual Data Discovery. You can now create data sources in Visual Data Discovery data cubes or data connectors. Establish a connection to an available project in Visual Data Discovery then use to create a data source. After you’ve created the source, use it to create a visual in the Visual Gallery or in a dashboard. See Add Data Store ConnectionsAdd Data Discovery Data Store Connections and Define a SourceDefine a Visual Data Discovery Source. Note: This feature is no longer in beta and can be used in production environments.
Table of Contents Navigation	When you add a table of contents to your reports, you can select each entry to navigate to the content in view mode. Symphony generates navigation links and a document outline when exported as a PDF. See Add a Table of Contents.
Export Numeric Fields and Dates	Exporting raw or visual data from visuals created in Visual Data Discovery to XLSX format now outputs numeric and date fields in number and date format.
RSA Key Signing Support	Symphony now supports the RSA asymmetric key signing algorithm when using JSON web token (JWT) authentication.
Select Individual Modules	Select the Symphony modules you prefer to install during installation: all modules, or exclude Logi AI, Managed Dashboards, or Visual Data Discovery as desired. See Install Symphony - Kubernetes.
Breaking Changes Management	We’ve expanded change management for breaking changes by adding your warning tags to sources or other objects, even if there are no other top level dependencies to that object. See Import or Export Sources.
Import Matching Strategy Improvements	When you migrate and import objects into your environment, you can define a matching strategy that uses multiple approaches to reviewing objects to determine how to handle them in conjunction with your selected insertion strategy. Matching strategies are processed in order, proceeding to the next and the next if a strategy fails. If all strategies fail, the object is imported and tagged with your selected tags to help you find affected objects and manage any issues. These attributes are used to define the matching strategy and warning tags to use for import. See Import Dashboards, Import Visual Gallery Visuals, and Import or Export Sources.
Improved Line Chart Performance	The data display of line charts in Symphony now supports rendering of large data sets more quickly by halting the calculation of values and percentages for data lengths over 130,000. When this threshold is reached, the Display as stacked option is disabled. Work with Support if you need to change the setting of data-threshold from the default of 130,000.
Change Schemas in Manual Select Transforms	You can now can select a schema as needed when you create or edit manual select transforms that use supported data connectors. Create a parameter for the session schema selection and make it public so viewers can change the schema on the dashboard. Use custom attributes to filter and bind the selection options to a user or group. Enable Allow Session Schemas for the appropriate connectors to make this option available in your environment. Supported connectors include Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, MemSQL, MySQL, and Exasol. See Session Schema.
Map and Tree Visualization Updates	Customize the selection behavior and set up custom interactions when selection changes in maps, diagrams, and treemaps. Map visualizations now have built-in support for Azure Maps for street level maps. See Using a Treemap and Using a Map Visualization.
Upgraded Python Requirements	The minimum supported version of Python for Managed Dashboards and Reports is Python 3.8.

API Updates

API documentation is provided with your Symphony installation at this link: <symphony-URL>/discovery/swagger-ui.html.

Visual Data Discovery Module

Endpoint	Method	Description
/api/group-membership/{id}	PATCH	Manage group membership for users by updating a group: define usersToAdd and usersToRemove to include a single user or an array of users.
/api/inventory/{type}/ and /api/inventory/{type}/{id}	GET	If you created dashboards and visuals that include your own originID, calling this endpoint returns each item and their associated originID, if applicable.
/api/sources	GET/PUT	Use to return and define information for a source.
/api/sources/{sourceId}/clone	POST	Use to create a copy of a source.
/api/groups	POST, PUT	You can now assign an identifier to your groups using externalId that is unique across tenants. This does not change or replace the accountId assigned by Symphony. The externalId is not available in the UI.

Managed Dashboards and Managed Reports Modules

Endpoint	Method	Description
None.

Resolved Issues

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