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Infrastructure

• Resolved an issue that would keep a LDAP user in a Yellowfin group after being deleted on the host.
• Resolved an issue that would create multiple user accounts if a new user logged in via LDAP multiple times in succession.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent a super user from being able to edit a draft of a private report.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent a report from being deleted if it had been manually removed from the database.
• Resolved an issue with password case sensitivity for the administrator user created during installation.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent reports from being deleted in a batch selection when Share Private Content was turned off for the user's role.
• Resolved an issue where a personal content creator could create public reports with the "Save As" function.
• Resolved a potential security issue that could expose access to Yellowfin pages if a user visited the reset password page.
• Resolved an issue that would cause users to retain access to dashboards after being removed from a user group until the instance was restarted or the caches were cleared.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent user group membership changes from being applied to group hierarchies in client organizations.
• Resolved an issue that would reset view security permissions when editing the View Security settings.
• Resolved an issue with some instances of nested groups where group membership would not be calculated correctly.
• Resolved an issue that would let some users without Update or Delete rights see content via Guided NLQ queries for views with Read Restricted or Edit Restricted settings.

Logging

• Resolved an issue where deleting a broadcast from a report would not create a record in the Event database table.
• Resolved an issue that would incorrectly add an NPE error to the log file when a user with specific role functions opened a report.
• Resolved an issue that would cause an incorrect IpSource value to be written to the Events table when accessing a dashboard via the JS API.

Installer

• Resolved an issue that would cause updates to fail when using the silent installer to upgrade from versions 8.0.10.3, 8.0.10.4, 9.7.0.2 and 9.7.0.3.
• Resolved an issue where setting a custom installer.warfilename in the custom.properties file would prevent a Yellowfin 9.7 installation from completing.

Data

• Resolved an issue where MySQL Connector 8.0 would return all available tables rather than just the tables available in the selected database.
• Resolved an issue that would cause SAML SSO to stop functioning — if it was set up in Yellowfin 9.6 without the Service Provider Private Key and Certificate — by making the two fields optional (learn more).

Imports

• Resolved an issue that would omit translations for calculated fields during report import.

REST API

• Resolved an issue with the GET /categories endpoint in the REST API 1.3 returning incorrect parentCategory links.
• Resolved an issue that would cause version 1.2 REST API category requests to return results for version 1.3.

JS API

• Resolved an issue that would prevent images from loading on the Guided NLQ UI when passing an element to the JS API loadNLQ function.

Web Services

• Resolved an issue where the DELETECATEGORY web service would not delete a sub-folder.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent SSO from working correctly in some circumstances due to an existing web session.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent the SOAP web service from exporting using the new PDF exporter.

Views

• Resolved an issue that would prevent a user from editing a CSV view if a date function was added to the view and saved.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent drill through creation on reports based on a copied view.
• Resolved an issue with the date functions Week Start, Week End and Week of Year each being out by a day when applied to Sundays when using PostgreSQL or Redshift.
• Resolved an issue that would cause an error when copying a freehand SQL view from the view’s Model page.
• Resolved an issue that would cause reports based on cached Freehand SQL views to fail.
• Resolved an issue with CacheDB that would prevent returning data from a view created from a stored procedure.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent some views from being copied or exported.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent Last Modified details for a view from being recorded unless specific changes were made to that view.

Content Export

• Resolved an issue that would prevent reports with cached filter hierarchies from being exported.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent shrink to fit from working on reports with a chart or canvas to the left or right of the report table.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent filter values from being applied on a tabbed child report when exporting to XLSX.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent XLSX exports from opening in MS Excel if they were based on JasperReports-based reports.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the slow export of reports with conditional format icons.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent action buttons on a canvas dashboard from maintaining their size when being exported to PDF.
• Resolved an issue that would cause PDF page size issues when exporting JasperReports-based reports.
• Resolved an issue that would fail to render SVG images in JasperReports-based reports.

Broadcasts

• Improved the broadcast schedule to use the data source timezone as the default for reports, and the system's default timezone for dashboards (which may contain reports with different timezones).
• Resolved an issue where using mandatory filters in reports would disable the feature of advanced broadcast recipients.
• Resolved an issue where one or more mandatory filters with no default value would prevent the Current Filter Values option from being selected in a report broadcast.
• Resolved an issue where bookmarks could not be used as filters in report broadcasts.
• Resolved an issue that would cause a report broadcast to fail when a timestamp field was used as a filter.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent broadcast delivery rules from functioning correctly if a timestamp field contained a date.
• Resolved an issue where private reports would not broadcast to validated users.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent the Different From broadcast delivery rule from functioning correctly.

Dashboards

• Resolved an issue that would prevent dashboards with interaction links from being re-imported when using the "Replace Existing" option.
• Resolved an issue where a canvas with missing report fields would not load in edit mode.
• Resolved an issue where creating a new story widget, then undoing its creation, then redoing its creation, would display an incorrect layout.
• Resolved an issue that would cause formatted action links to append the primary org ID instead of the client org ID.

Reports

• Resolved an issue where applying conditional formatting rules to the Total field would inadvertently apply them to the main report.
• Resolved an issue that would cause an error when configuring Link To relationships for a drill through report.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent drill through to a child report when the parent report filters contained null values.
• Resolved an issue when building dashboards that would prevent branched reports from having different interaction settings from their parent report.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent a report created from a view with Edit Restricted enabled from being deleted.
• Resolved an issue where, after selecting and adding a value on the calculated field "Current day +/- X days”, the value displayed on the page would not be updated.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent valid users from editing a report if an access filter without any values was applied.

Guided NLQ

• Resolved an issue that would prevent Guided NLQ answers from being saved as reports when the Unique Report Names setting was switched on.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the Guided NLQ Ask tool to be cut off during an animation.
• Resolved an issue where a user could run a Guided NLQ query with an incomplete Where block.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent calculated date fields from being enabled for Assisted Insights and Guided NLQ.
• Resolved an issue where updating the Granularity option of an associated date field in a Guided NLQ query could prevent the user from completing the query.

Filters

• Resolved an issue that would prevent filters from showing up when opening a report from the Open Report sidebar button.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the Dynamic Filter option to erroneously appear on a view-level filter.
• Resolved an issue that would cause a cached filter to contain unexpected values when an access filter was enabled in the main query and subquery.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent the Not In List filter from functioning correctly with timestamps.
• Resolved the issue where filters set to Cached On Demand would not load values unless they had been manually refreshed.
• Resolved an issue that would cause a date filter with Max or Min aggregation to display the filter format options for numbers.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent wildcard access filters from working correctly in OLAP-sourced reports.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent minimum and maximum options from appearing in the list of values for a dashboard filter even though they appear in the original report's filter
• Resolved an issue that would cause filters to be marked as unavailable after deleting the filter list to which it previously belonged.
• Resolved an issue that would not pass values to a child report if the parent and child filter entry types were not the same.

Charts

• Resolved an issue where pie charts would display incorrect colors if a metric was used as a colour.
• Resolved an issue that would cause inconsistent results when exporting JavaScript charts containing SVG masks.
• Disabled trends for stacked area charts due a third-party library issue.
• Resolved an issue where charts would not render if the legend was too large.
• Resolved an issue that would cause radar charts to display a reference line label after enabling the Hide Label option.
• Resolved an issue with the Histogram Auto Binning feature that would cause some values to go missing when outliers were present.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent a pie chart from displaying if the Explode Slice setting was selected.

User interface

• Resolved an issue that would prevent the Create menu from functioning when set to display in the Left Side Navigation panel.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the minus sign on a value to appear as a suffix when used with bar conditional formatting right align.
• Resolved an issue with field conditional formatting rules where typing any decimal number starting with “-0.” would automatically remove the minus sign.
• Resolved the issue where tasks from deleted discussion streams would no longer be actionable.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent the ‘Suppress’ drill through popup option in Content Settings from functioning correctly.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the report tab selection to shift when drilling down.
• Resolved the issue where sub queries would be listed as drill throughs on the pop-up warning message that appears when a user tries to delete a report.
• Resolved an issue where filter values containing certain symbols would not be passed through correctly as part of a dashboard drill through.
• Resolved an issue that would cut off the Drill Anywhere popup when the linking field is close to browser’s window edge.
• Resolved an issue that would hide report editing options on the Browse page for users with edit access.
• Resolved an issue that would cause a system error when maximizing a Report Snapshot or Report Bookmark popup from the discussion stream.
• Resolved an issue where translation text would be inadvertently displayed when multi-language was enabled.
• Resolved an issue with stories where users’ long job titles would push down the position of the Like button.
• Added input validation to the First and Last Name fields under Profile Settings.
• Improved the display of license information on the license page.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent the dropdown list of user groups from displaying.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the ‘Above’ Page Slider option to display both above and below a report.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent dashboard and presentation widgets selected as a group from being duplicated.
• Resolved an issue that would cause keyboard commands in dashboard and presentation edit modes to stop working after their initial execution.
• Resolved an issue that would display an unnecessary warning message when sharing a dashboard or report with JavaScript Charts.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent freehand SQL reports from being displayed in advanced search results on the Export page.
• Resolved an issue where refreshing a filter’s custom query in an appended query would delete the associated SQL.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent locale-based sorting from being configured for client organizations.
• Resolved an issue that would cause a blank space to appear at the bottom of report tables on dashboard table widgets.
• Reinstated the "Related" checkbox from Automated Insights Setup and moved it to the Automated Settings dialog box.

Signals

• Resolved an issue where importing views with "Replace Existing" enabled would not replace the related Signals jobs.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent charts from loading in Signals.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the Spike/Drop/Breakout signal to show on daily basis even if its granularity was set to be higher (eg, hourly).

Assisted Insights

• Resolved an issue that would prevent users from selecting the maximum number of fields (12) for Assisted Insights.

Mobile

• Resolved an issue with the styling of the report filters popup on the mobile app.