DataTile team presents a brief overview of the top highlights to keep you up to date with the constant stream of our new features and developments.
Here what’s we are introducing in April:
Enabled Chat GPT to generate human-readable text templates on dashboards.
New date variables which behave as categorical.
Aliases for controls to unite different languages or different data sources.
Applying controls manually to avoid constant recalculations on a dashboard.
Implemented ‘Selected only’ mode to stop scrolling dropdown controls.
Downloading and uploading databases with saved codebooks and decks, and even synchronization.
Database swapping for the dashboard in a couple of clicks.
A new way to demonstrate dashboards on external web pages.
1. Text template generation using Chat GPT
The usage of artificial intelligence to generate human-readable text templates is implemented in DataTail. On request, chat GPT can be activated on the client’s server and greatly improves the presentation of text templates, which are usually constructed as repetitive sentences with alternative wording. If you need to create multiple templates with a huge number of variable term substitutions, chat GPT reduces editing time by a factor of hundreds.
2. Time-series categorization: categorical date variable
You can create new time scale variables by deriving them from the existing date type variable in the database. Derived variables can be time scales (e.g. year, quarter, month, weeks) or seasonal intervals and behave as categorical variables.
3. Aliasing on controls: the capacity to connect data from completely different sources
In scenarios where control operations rely on label matching (mask, tag etc.) utilizing aliases now boosts data-linking capabilities. Essentially, an alias is an alternative name tied to a recognized control label, allowing operations to be carried out using either. Aliases are beneficial when:
using image bundles;
using multilanguage datasets or similar datasets with mismatched labels;
connecting controls and widgets from external sources and many more cases.
4. Manual application of control changes
Changes in control application were made. Now you can choose how it will work: automatically or manually. An automatical regime means that recalculations on a dashboard are triggered by any changes in controls, as it was before. But in a manual regime, you may change control states without triggering the recalculation and apply all changes at once by specifically pressing the ‘Apply’ button.
This innovation is most helpful for massive complex dashboards, where recalculation takes considerable time.
5. Selected only mode for dropdown multi-select control
When the list of options in the dropdown control is lengthy, it's tedious to find all the ones selected. We have simplified the process and now there is a special ‘Selected’ mode in the drop-down control that displays only the selected options.
6. A new approach to downloading and transferring Databases & Dashboards
Available for entity owners with the Syndicated Manager role, the new feature allows effortlessly downloading a database as a dump file, preserving saved codebooks and decks. This facilitates further uploading on another server or saving on a server with different access configurations. When downloaded with synchronization, a continuous update connection is established.
The same feature allows uploading dashboards with saved settings from a dump file and reconnecting them to similar databases. This facilitates the multiplication of dashboards, allows easy substitution of underlying databases, and provides data across multiple databases for different clients without compromising accessibility.
This feature supports the distribution of syndicated studies, automatic synchronization, and updating entities on third-party servers. More details here.
7. Switching the database connected to the dashboard
Once a dashboard is created, it can be reused multiple times. If you wish to apply it to another database or an updated database, you can easily switch databases for a specific dashboard.
This feature is built into the information panel for dashboards as shown below
8. Embedding authenticated dashboards to external webpages & Single Sign-on
We’ve implemented the possibility to embed a white-label DataTile dashboard in external web pages. Here is a short instruction:
Copy the DataTile dashboard URL;
On the landing page in the iframe, insert a link with
/headless/appended to the URL;Alter iframe parameters (width, height, etc.)
The access both to the page and to DataTile needs to be granted. If the authorization in DataTile fails, the dashboard will not be displayed. The solution here is to set the Single sign-on.