Analytics+ March 2025 update - Release 4.6 - *Coming up*
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Enhance your task-tracking and scheduling experience with the latest features we've added to the Gantt chart, making it the best project-planning solution in BI.
Tracking the planned start and end dates is critical in maintaining deadlines and comparing the progress between the actual and planned dates. The Analytics+ Gantt chart now enables you to manage timelines better with support for planned start and end dates.
In this example, the yellow bar depicts the planned start and end timelines.
The Analytics+ Gantt supports detailed planning and tracking with the Zoom option. You can even customize the degree of zoom and tailor it to your data.
Levels of zoom: You can configure up to 5 levels of zoom. For instance, the highest level could be Year/Qtr/Month and the lowest can be Day/Hour/Minute. In this example, we have defined 3 levels.
Date/time format: Specify the date or time format. For instance, to display the full month name use "MMMM", for short month use "MMM".
Interval: Define the interval between 2 consecutive time periods. For instance, to display every day in the timeline, set the interval to 1, or to display alternate months set the interval to 2. In this example, at the lowest level, the timeline will display alternate months, every 3rd week, and every 5th day.
Take a look at the Gantt chart rendered at each defined zoom level.
Level 1: Get a high-level view and overall progress at year-quarter-month level.
Level 2: Zoom in to track the progress at quarter-month-week level.
Level 3: Detailed, low-level tracking on a month-week-day basis.
Access to planning documents or resources is now at your fingertips with support for WebURLs. You can embed links to shared workspaces or ticketing systems like Jira directly in your Gantt. Remember to map the field containing URLs to the Gantt visual parameter. In the pivot data window, the URL field must be assigned to the Display Category bucket.
Choose from a large selection of fill styles like checkerboard/ grid/ diagonal lines to highlight your actual and planned bars.
Enable the new search option to locate tasks or sub-tasks faster. You can search for a particular keyword and all occurrences will be highlighted.
With the Analytics+ Gantt, you can now track status at a weekly level. Enable the zoom button to zoom in and view progress at a more detailed level. The week number will be displayed in the timeline. Set the Zoom unit to 'Week'.
Every project involves a number of tasks and subtasks. The Grand Total row option enables you to immediately gauge the overall status of the project - it displays the cumulative progress of all the tasks involved.
Capturing holidays and non-working days is essential for proper planning and resource management. The Days Off feature allows you to highlight designated days of the week and custom dates. You can apply a fill pattern and set a color to highlight the non-working days.
Users in reading view can interactively plot deviations in just a few clicks. Click on the first bar and as you drag the mouse pointer, you'll notice the deviation being plotted dynamically. Click on the target bar to render the deviation line.
Series labels help users quickly relate the dimension or measure series to what is plotted in the chart. We've introduced additional customizations for series labels - set the font style and background color, display connecting lines, and position the series labels to the left or right of the chart. You can also match the series color, making it easier to correlate with the chart. This feature is most useful for stacked column or bar charts.
When multiple measures are plotted in a stacked chart, enable the Individual stacked group color toggle for the legend to display all combinations of the measure and the group category.
Choose from a wide range of fill patterns to easily distinguish between various categories in your multi-axis charts, enhancing the readability of your data. In addition to the standard solid, outline, and hatched fills, we support line and shape-based fills, demonstrated in the example below.
Distinguish the various categories in your bubble charts with fill patterns. Fill patterns help in increasing the clarity of charts with high data density. Analytics+ now supports solid, outlined, and hatched fill styles. Navigate to Canvas Settings and select the fill style from the dropdown menu.
Negative axes are important to visualize the impact of dimension categories on the actuals. The example shows how the sales for the Tables product is high, but the product still has negative profitability.
The linear gauge now supports negative axis value ranges.
Add image and add details about specifying min/max values
Enable the Reverse y-axis toggle to change the order in which y-axis labels are displayed. This feature is available for line, area, waterfall, combo, and bullet charts. When it comes to financial charts, reversing the Y-axis might make it easier to visualize losses and profits.
For date-based reports, apply conditional formatting to highlight data for specific time periods - like the past week, past month, next week, or previous day. This helps direct users' focus to recent activity. In the example, we've highlighted the sales measure for the past week with a hatched fill and a different color.
Highlight trends by applying conditional formatting rules to insight charts. Choose the"Kpi Insight Chart" for the Impacts on option to apply formatting to the insight chart.
The earlier versions of Analytics+ provided an option to invert the variance colors. For instance, if red implied a negative variance and green implied positive - you could interchange them. You can now use the on-object interaction menu to invert the variance for individual panels. This will impact the sparkline, variance border, accent bar, and KPI metrics as shown in the images.
Insight charts tell users whether the KPI is declining or improving at a glance. You can now customize the data labels for insight charts with dedicated data label settings.
Context awareness for storyboard textboxes
Storyboard textboxes are now context-aware! The content in the text boxes will respond to changes in Inforiver SuperFilter selections. In this example, notice how the summary and the KPI metrics change in response to region selections.
Performance mode is now available in the Storyboard as well. Line, area, and bubble charts with high data volume and a large number of data points can be plotted significantly faster with the performance mode option.
The chart slider (to browse and change the chart type) option has been added to the floating toolbar. They can be enabled and disabled from the Allowed User Controls menu.
While working with integrated variance waterfall charts, enable the Show variance marker in legend settings to display the positive and negative variance colors in the legend.
Analytics support has been added for multi-axis charts. You can plot reference lines, reference bands, error bars, and trend lines. Deviation lines will be plotted based on a single axis, not for all axes. The individual stacked group option is available for MAC, and data label customizations are also supported.
