Pyramid 2020.13 Released

Yakov_Shaul
updated 3 yrs ago

Pyramid 2020.13 has been released and includes numerous fixes and a large number of new features (50+) and improvements.

Software

The main installer files can be downloaded from the Pyramid Customer Portal.

Upgraded native mobile apps for Android and iOS will be released in the next few days and made available in the relevant app stores.
The EMBED APIs in NPM is upgraded and is available for update.
Docker containers have been upgraded for Kubernetes deployments.

An upgraded version of the BI Office Converter will be released within the next several days.

Upgrade Guidance

Main Installation guidance can be found here.

Help for upgrades can be found here.
Help on how to test an upgrade before deployment can be found here.
Help for Kubernetes deployments can be found here.

Cautions

Pyramid 2020.13 includes numerous key upgrades and fixes to existing capabilities.
As such, Pyramid strongly recommends that the new release is tested on a duplicate version of an existing content database repository before any production upgrades are applied.

The following notable deprecations have also been made:

The user creation APIs have been upgraded and the old APIs have been deprecated.
Support for Ubuntu 17 has been deprecated - because the OS itself is out of support.

Fixes

Click here to see the list of fixes made in this version.

New Features

Key features are in bold.
Several new features are being released as betas or preview releases only.
Click the stars to see help and videos ★

FEATURE	DETAILS
Discover & Queries
Pyramid as a data source ★ (preview release)	The new OData service can make any Discover report a data source in other tools. [OData access is separately licensed.]
New Multi-Element Operations and Custom Ordering Tools	Users can now select multiple elements in any visual and perform common interactive functions on all the items in a single click. This includes drill-down, drill-up, expand and collapse. Also a new capability to adjust the custom order of elements rendered in a given visual. ★
Dice/Add/Swap Menu Customization ★	Users can now customize the hierarchies presented in the Dice, Add and Swap context menus in the Discover runtime settings.
Quick Calc's in Discover Lite ★	A selection of “lite” quick calculations have been added to Discover Lite.
Upgrade to Legends	The placement of the Legend titles has been upgraded – allowing many more alignment and formatting options.
New Discover Subscriptions ★	New ability for users to subscribe to Discover reports
Upgraded Alerting Options and Webhooks	Upgraded alert trigger options. ★ New ability to send message via WebHook channels to platforms like Slack and MS Teams. ★
New Visualizations Added ★	5 types of Radar charts; 2 types of scatter-line plots; and bullet chart gauges have been added
Improved Sunburst and Maps Visuals	New options to adjust Sunburst value formatting. New Map type with the option to set shape outlines.
Model
Upgraded Multi file support for Excel sources	New options to import multiple files in a data flow, including Excel
New data sources: Google Sheets and Azure Synapse	Support for ingesting public Google Sheets data and connecting to Azure Synapse.
New options for Google Analytics	New options to set start and end date
New Support for Ragged Hierarchies ★	New options to set ragged hierarchy types for SQL data sources
Upgraded Relationship Tools ★	Upgrades to the relationship diagram interface with adjustments in color and function including new option to validate joins and relationships.
New Join Operators ★	New options to set join types: greater than, less than, greater or equals to, less or equals.
Formulate
New Bullet KPI option ★	New Gauge design style for bullet charts
New PQL functions	Twelve new PQL functions including : rank, trim, trimleft, trimright, geodistance, smartinsights, smartinsightscategorical
New Network Diagram Custom Visual	New Network Diagram listed in Custom Visual Marketplace
Upgraded Chord Diagram Custom Visual	Upgraded Chord diagram in Custom Visual Marketplace
Present
Upgraded Present Designer Launch	Upgraded Present Pro start interface to choose canvas size.
Dice/Add/Swap Menu Customization ★	Users can now customize the hierarchies presented in the Dice, Add and Swap context menus in the Present runtime settings.
Upgraded Color Pickers	New “alpha” setting in color pickers to change color transparency
Upgraded Navigation options	New option to hide slide navigation interface in a presentation.
Smart Insights ★	Next iteration of AI driven automated text-based analysis
NLQ Chat Bot ★ (preview release)	Addition of natural language tools to live presentations with a chat-based Q&A experience
Presentation Subscriptions ★	New ability for users to subscribe to Present dashboards
Publish
New option to distribute to Webhook Channels ★ (beta)	Upgraded publication notification options with the ability to send messages via WebHook channels to platforms like Slack and MS Teams
Content Manager
New Bulletin Board Subscriptions Viewer ★	Ability to send all rendered subscriptions.
Admin
New Memory Manager ★	New Options to view and set memory for each service from either the system dashboard or server instances panel
New File System ★ (preview release)	New options to designate permanent file storage
New clustering options for Task and AI services	New options to configure AI server and Task server services using proportionate deployments
Infrastructure
Improved Failover functions	Improved handling of failed services and servers in the cluster
New REST APIs functions	Five new API functions for Windows and SAML embedded authentication. New Content APIs.
Pyramid for Kubernetes ★ (preview release)	Containerized version of Pyramid using Kubernetes now available.
Added OS support ★	New support for Ubuntu 18, 20; Centos 8. (Note: Ubuntu 17 is deprecated, and Red Hat 8 is not yet supported)
Embedding
Upgrades to Embed API	New API methods for logging with Windows Auth and SAML. Get the update via NPM.