What s new? Version 5.0 SR4

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1 What s new? Version 5.0 SR4

2 Jedox What s new? Version 5.0 SR4 Jedox AG Date: 14-Apr-2014 Copyright Jedox AG Copyright Reserved. Reproduction, including electronic reproduction and substantive recovery - even of parts - only with the approval of Jedox AG. Legal steps may be taken in case of non-compliance. Jedox, Worksheet-Server, Supervision Server and Palo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Jedox AG. Microsoft and Microsoft Excel are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks are property of the respective companies. For the purpose of readability, brand names and trademarks are not explicitly stressed. If a relevant description (e.g. TM or ) is missing, it is not to be concluded that the name is freely available.

3 Table of Contents 1 What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR Improved Support and Feedback Channels Fixed Issues from Version 5.0 SR What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR Jedox Web Improvements for Clear Cube dialog Documentation Fixed Issues from Version 5.0 SR What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR Jedox Web Enhanced standalone mode Support for new spreadsheet functions Improvements for Dynamic Charts Changed / unified splashing percentage parameters XLSX Snapshot icons in toolbar Drillthrough export with header Jedox Excel Add-In Changed / unified splashing percentage parameters Ability to influence path of style files Improvements for Clear Cube dialog Setup Enhancements Open Jedox Web from Setup Demo Content Technical Health Documentation Fixed Issues from Version What s New in Jedox Suite Version Jedox Base Jedox Web SUCCESS Charts Dynamic Charts Chart toolbar button Improvements of standard charts Find and Replace Line breaks in cells... 21

4 5.2.7 Swap Axis of a Paste View Auto-fitting of height for cells with text wrapping turned on Export/Import spreadsheets containing microcharts Update for touch interface Clearing DB Cubes Log of SVS is also displayed in Jedox Web Log Viewer Hyperlink enhancements Support for displaying alias values in Combobox Support for OLAP Snapshot New Spreadsheet Functions Jedox for Excel SUCCESS Charts Zero Suppression for multiple rows/columns Support for OLAP Snapshot Office Add-in PowerPoint and Word Jedox OLAP Improved caching Bulk activation/deactivation of rules Support for impersonation SVS - authentication fallbacks for admin and _internal_suite Jedox ETL Performance Optimization New Tree Format PCWAT Generate Project Documentation New Function Date Duration Stored Procedures in Relational Extract File Extract with HTTPS New connection type to a local H2 database engine Setup Enhancements Renamed Service Names Out of the box Drillthrough on base cells Demo Content Technical Health New UI Language Portuguese (Brazil) Documentation Fixed Issues from Version 4.0 SR

5 -5-1 What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR4 As you may know, the OpenSSL project has recently announced security vulnerability in OpenSSL affecting versions and (CVE ). Customers that are running Jedox 5.X and are using SSL could be affected by this issue. We have issued 5.0 SR4 to update used OpenSSL components to corrected 1.0.1g Version. Users are urged to upgrade to a fixed version as soon as possible. For more information about this vulnerability, please visit: * OpenSSL s official advisory: * The Heartbleed Bug: Version 4.X of Jedox were not affected by a Heartbleed vulnerability. Thank you, Jedox AG Development Team

6 -6-2 What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR3 This document gives an overview of improvements in Jedox 5.0 SR3. Jedox 5.0 SR3 is a cumulative bugfix release which contains all the hotfixes released after the release of version Jedox 5.0 SR2 and is available for download from In chapter 2 you can find detailed information about what s new in the previous version 5.0 SR2. Detailed information about older Jedox 4.x can be found in the what s new documents for that version in archive downloads. 2.1 Improved Support and Feedback Channels After the release of Jedox 5.0 SR2 we worked on improving how our users communicate with Jedox. This resulted in 3 additional tools within jedox.com: Support Portal Area where customers can submit support cases and check status of their case Knowledge Base Central documentation area with access to all Jedox documentation with full text search capabilities. The system also enables you to get snapshots of interesting articles as PDF files. Feature Voting Tool You can submit your ideas for improving Jedox or vote for any of already submitted ideas You can easily access all three tools at / Services / Support (

7 Fixed Issues from Version 5.0 SR2 Issues (features, tweaks and bugs) reported in Version 5.0 SR2 have been fixed/implemented in Version 5.0 SR3. The development team thanks those customers and partners who have reported issues. Product Issues Resolved OLAP Server SVS 0 0 Excel Add-In 3 3 Office Add-In 0 0 Client Libs 2 2 ETL Client/Server 1 1 Scheduler 0 0 Jedox Web Demo Content 0 0 Documentation 0 0 Setup 3 3 A detailed list of all issues can be found in the change log PDF document.

8 -8-3 What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR2 This document gives an overview of the new features, enhancements and fixes in Jedox 5.0 SR2 Premium Edition. Jedox 5.0 SR2 is available for download at In chapter 2 can be found detailed information about what s new in the previous version 5.0 SR1. In chapter 3 can be found detailed information about what s new in the previous version 5.0. Detailed information about older Jedox 4.x can be found in the What s new documents for that version in archive downloads. 3.1 Jedox Web Improvements for Clear Cube dialog Clear button now displays Clear all / Clear selection depending on what user selected. Clear Cube dialog now matches the Clear Cube dialog of Excel Add-In. 3.2 Documentation Jedox Suite 5.0 SR2 has the following new documentation: QUICKSTART WITH JEDOX WEB 5.0 SR2 QUICKSTART WITH JEDOX EXCEL ADD-IN 5.0 SR2 You can download these quickstart guides from They are available in English, German and French.

9 Fixed Issues from Version 5.0 SR1 Issues (features, tweaks and bugs) reported in Version 5.0 SR1 have been fixed/implemented in Version 5.0 SR2. The development team thanks those customers and partners who have reported issues. Product Issues Resolved OLAP Server SVS 4 4 Excel Add-In Office Add-In 2 2 Client Libs 4 4 ETL Client/Server 4 4 Scheduler 0 0 Jedox Web Demo Content 1 1 Documentation 1 1 Setup A detailed list of all issues can be found in the change log PDF document.

10 -10-4 What s New in Jedox Version 5.0 SR1 4.1 Jedox Web Enhanced standalone mode As of 5.0 SR1, when opening reports in standalone mode, it is also possible to hide title and menu bar. This makes embedding Jedox Web reports into other products such as portals even easier. For more details on how to use this functionality please consult Jedox Administrator Guide.

11 4.1.2 Support for new spreadsheet functions Implemented 92 new spreadsheet functions in categories Database (DGET, DCOUNT, ), Engineering (COMPLEX, IMABS,...), Logical (IFERROR, IFNA,XOR), Math & Trigonometry (SUBTOTAL, ROMAN, ), Information (ISFORMULA) and Lookup & Reference (FORMULATEXT). Please consult Jedox Administrator Guide for the list of all supported functions Improvements for Dynamic Charts It is now possible to hide axis and gridlines in dynamic charts. Also added support for number formatting of labels as well as axis values Changed / unified splashing percentage parameters 1. When splashing # % the calculated percentage value is set instead of the original value (100 => splash # 15% => 15, in older Jedox versions the result was 115). 2. When splashing ## % the calculated percentage value is added to the original value (100 => splash ## 15% => 115, this parameter doesn't work in older Jedox versions). 3. In splashing wizard, Generic Splashing, when using percentage plus setting "Default" the percentage value is set (100 => splash 15% with mode "Default" => 15, in older Jedox versions the result was 115). 4. In splashing wizard, Generic Splashing, when using percentage plus setting "Add" the percentage value is added (100 => splash 15% with mode "add" => 115, in older Jedox versions the result was 215).

12 XLSX Snapshot icons in toolbar Toolbar in 5.0 SR1 also features XLSX Snapshot icons Drillthrough export with header Exporting.CSV files in Drillthrough dialog adds option to export with headers.

13 Jedox Excel Add-In Changed / unified splashing percentage parameters Applies to Jedox Excel Add-In too. See Changed / unified splashing percentage parameters in Jedox Web Ability to influence path of style files As of 5.0 SR1 it is possible to set alternative path to style files used when creating reports via Paste View dialog. Use Options dialog to configure these.

14 Improvements for Clear Cube dialog Clear button now displays Clear all / Clear selection depending on what user selected.

15 Setup Enhancements Open Jedox Web from Setup As of 5.0 SR1, the last step in setup wizard will also offer possibility to start Jedox Web once finished. On very first install it will also suggest using default login credentials Demo Content Added revision of demo content which includes Dashboard report. Also added in this version are samples for heatmap and treemap widgets. 4.4 Technical Health In 5.0 SR1 following target platforms have been added to the supported list: Firefox 22 Windows Documentation Jedox Administrator Guide now includes list of all spreadsheet functions supported in Jedox Web.

16 Fixed Issues from Version 5.0 Issues (features, tweaks and bugs) reported in Version 5.0 have been fixed/implemented in Version 5.0 SR1. The development team thanks those customers and partners who used to log issues. Product Issues Resolved OLAP Server SVS 0 0 Excel Add-In Office Add-In Client Libs 9 9 ETL Client/Server Scheduler 2 2 Jedox Web Demo Content 9 9 Documentation Setup A detailed list of all issues can be found in the change log PDF document.

17 -17-5 What s New in Jedox Suite Version Jedox Base With Jedox 5.0 now available, Jedox AG is stepping up its commitment to provide an open and costeffective BI and performance management platform. In contrast to previous versions, from Version 5.0 on, both the fee-based Premium version and the Free version will feature the latest release of Jedox OLAP Server. Furthermore, Jedox will make the source code of the latest OLAP Server release available as an Open Source license on SourceForge. Up to now, only the previous OLAP Server release (15 to 18 months old) was available. In addition to the latest OLAP Server release, the free version of Jedox will now also feature a free Excel client. This one-two punch of Jedox OLAP server and free Excel client will enable business users to implement powerful, centralized BI and self-service performance management solutions across the enterprise free of charge and without any restrictions regarding the data model size or number of registered users. In addition to the powerful Free version, from Release 5.0 on, Jedox will also offer a Premium version of Jedox. This release will enhance the enterprise capability of the free version in numerous key ways. Features will include Web capability, improved Excel functionality, mobile device support, ETL functions (importing/exporting from third-party systems), SAP data integration, superior user access control, and GPU co-processing. Jedox will offer comprehensive training, support, and consulting for the Premium version only.

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19 Jedox Web SUCCESS Charts Version 5.0 introduces support for so called SUCCESS charts. There are 5 different version of charts natively supported: Waterfall, Bubble, Line, Deviant Column and Grouped Bar chart. These are available both in Jedox Web and in Jedox for Excel. You can exchange charts defined and generated in Jedox for Web with those made in Jedox for Excel. For details on Jedox for Excel implementation please see More information about SUCCESS rules can be found at Dynamic Charts Version 5.0 of Jedox for Web also introduces support for dynamic charts. These are modern JavaScript and HTML5 powered animated charts. These charts are client only at the moment it is not possible to print them. Additional types and further improvements will follow in future versions.

20 Chart toolbar button The chart toolbar button supports all 4 chart types: Improvements of standard charts Clickable charts Standard charts were enhanced to support hyperlink functionality. As of version 5.0 it is possible to use chart objects to transfer Value, Percentage, Series or Category label when clicking into the area of a chart. Use Hyperlink dialog to define these.

21 Chart title as cell reference As of 5.0, you can use a cell reference or formula as chart title (not only static string as before) Find and Replace Version 5.0 introduces support for Find and Replace. Similar as in Microsoft Excel it is possible to search for content of formula within Sheet or entire Workbook. You can even search and replace cell format Line breaks in cells Feature implemented in 5.0: Line breaks when entering cell content. Shortcut is ALT + Enter (except IE: CTRL + Enter) Swap Axis of a Paste View A new button in the Paste View Dialog or the context menu can now be used to swap the Column titles to Row titles and vice versa (already was in Jedox for Excel version 4.0).

22 5.2.8 Auto-fitting of height for cells with text wrapping turned on It is now possible to auto fit row height of rows within DynaRange. Prior to this version it was only possible to do this for column width Export/Import spreadsheets containing microcharts Exporting Jedox Web spreadsheet prior to version 5.0 would export microcharts as images. Excel 2010 introduced native support for sparklines. It is now possible to exchange definition of microcharts in Jedox Web with sparklines of Excel 2010 or newer.

23 Update for touch interface In Jedox Web 5.0 we updated touch interface (now using Sencha Touch 2.0). This brings better support for ios Clearing DB Cubes As of 5.0, you can clear DB cubes in OLAP Manager in Jedox Web, same way as in Excel Modeller Log of SVS is also displayed in Jedox Web Log Viewer As of 5.0, the log of SVS now can be viewed in Jedox Web Log Viewer as well.

24 Hyperlink enhancements Hyperlink functionality has been enhanced in 5.0 to support more options in regard to opening workbooks in separate Windows, positioning, layout, etc Support for displaying alias values in Combobox As of 5.0 it is possible to control usage of alias in combobox Support for OLAP Snapshot As of 5.0 it is possible to make XLSX export of a workbook and replace only Jedox spreadsheet formulas with their values. Other spreadsheet formulas will be preserved.

25 New Spreadsheet Functions Jedox Spreadsheet 5.0 includes new functions as follow: DATEVALUE() The DATEVALUE function converts a date that is stored as text to a serial number that is recognized as a date EDATE() Returns the serial number that represents the date that is the indicated number of months before or after a specified date EOMONTH() Returns the serial number for the last day of the month that is the indicated number of months before or after a specified date HOUR() Returns the hour of a time value. The hour is given as an integer, ranging from 0 (12:00 A.M.) to 23 (11:00 P.M.) MINUTE() Returns the minutes of a time value. The minute is given as an integer, ranging from 0 to SECOND() Returns the seconds of a time value. The second is given as an integer in the range 0 (zero) to TIMEVALUE() Returns the decimal number of the time represented by a text string WEEKDAY() Returns the day of the week corresponding to a date. The day is given as an integer, ranging from 1 (Sunday) to 7 (Saturday), by default.

26 Jedox for Excel SUCCESS Charts As of 5.0 Jedox for Excel also features same SUCCESS charts module as Jedox Web. It is possible to share SUCCESS charts between these two frontends.

27 5.3.2 Zero Suppression for multiple rows/columns As of 5.0 it is possible to suppress zero values in a view which contains multiple dimensions on row or column axis. In this version this is done on the client side. For this we introduced two new spreadsheet functions - PALO.HIDECOLUMN and PALO.HIDEROW. Further optimizations are planned for future versions (including server side support for zero suppression) Support for OLAP Snapshot As of 5.0 Excel Add-in has the same functionality as Jedox Web (see Support for OLAP Snapshot), it is possible to make export of a workbook and replace only Jedox spreadsheet formulas with their values. Other spreadsheet formulas will be preserved.

28 5.3.4 Office Add-in PowerPoint and Word In addition to existing Excel support, version 5.0 brings also support for Word and PowerPoint (Office 2007 or newer). It is now possible to reuse content defined as named formula in Excel in your Word document or PowerPoint presentation. Once you created and saved your Excel spreadsheet with all necessary data, e.g. Paste View with data from Jedox OLAP and chart based on that data, you can reference this spreadsheet in Word or PowerPoint document. From Jedox Ribbon element just select source Excel spreadsheet. Jedox Office Add-In will scan for available named formulas and display them. You can pick one or many of those and place them into office document. Placeholder will be created. You can then position it and set correct size. Once this is done you can hit refresh data and current data will be fetched from the source Excel file. -28-

29 Jedox OLAP Improved caching Improved calculation and cache filling in 5.0. Prior to this change, it could happen that certain aggregations produce several cache misses leading to repeated recalculation Bulk activation/deactivation of rules The API has been extended to support fast bulk activation/deactivation of rules. This is also supported in ETL server Support for impersonation Version 5.0 of OLAP adds support for impersonation in API, i.e. user with enough privileges (at least W on system operations right object) can execute actions as some other user. This functionality is added for internal purposes and not designed for usage in Jedox clients SVS - authentication fallbacks for admin and _internal_suite When SVS used in workerlogin authentication mode passwords come from a third party system. As of 5.0, users "admin" and "_internal_suite" are treated differently. If SVS authentication fails in third party system for these users, OLAP server will then try to authenticate against its own System database, checking the provided password against the password defined there. This renders special handling in script unnecessary.

30 Jedox ETL Performance Optimization Performance Optimization in Relational Load The Relational Load uses now Batch Inserts for writing of data. With this insert statements are grouped to limit round trips to the database Performance Optimization in Cube Load During the CubeLoad a separate thread is used to send a cell-block to the OLAP Server. So, during the processing of the data in the OLAP Server, ETL Server can already extract and transform the data for the next cell block. This leads especially to a performance optimization when a significant portion of the processing time is required in ETL Server or in the Source System Increased performance of Drillthrough The Performance for Drillthrough requests on highly consolidated cells has been increased. Therefore the SVS Script has to be updated. Additionally, the Relational Extract may have a Field Structure with a column mapping, but it must not contain default values for the columns. Especially in case of complex SQL-statements the assignment of a Field Structure (with or without column mapping) increases the Drill through request performance New Tree Format PCWAT There is a new Tree Format for tree based data sources PCWAT. It extends for parent child relations the format PCWA with a column indicating the node type (Numeric, String or Consolidated) Generate Project Documentation As of 5.0 it is possible to create project documentation for any ETL project. It contains the alphabetical list of all components with type, descriptions and references. The graphical flow graph of a user specified list of jobs of this project can be included in the documentation. It's possible to navigate inside of the project documentation to referencing components New Function Date Duration With this function you can do two kinds of data calculation inside FieldTransform: calculate the number of hours, days or another time unit between two different input dates and calculate a new date by adding a given number of hours, days or another time unit to a given date Stored Procedures in Relational Extract It is now possible to call a stored procedure to query data inside of a Relational Extract File Extract with HTTPS The extraction from URLs with HTTPS is supported in Connections of type File and XmlFile. The SSLcertificate will be automatically imported New connection type to a local H2 database engine It is now possible to create connections of H2 to local H2 database engine.

31 Setup Enhancements Renamed Service Names All the service names in Version 5.0 are now prefixed with Jedox instead of Palo, e.g. JedoxSuiteMolapService Out of the box Drillthrough on base cells As of 5.0 setup includes new SVS scripts which enable out of the box Drillthrough functionality on any consolidated cell. Selecting Enable Drillthrough in Advanced Setup will install updated SVS script which fetches data from base cells for current selection. See sep.inc.drill_through.php for more details. Note: "Olap Drillthrough" is performed with full access rights. So a user running drillthrough will see all base cell data, even for elements for which this user doesn't have access rights.

32 5.6.3 Demo Content Version 5.0 also brings updated version of demo applications labeled This new option is only shown during Update installations. If this option is set, the Setup will add new versions of the Demo applications. It will completely remove the following contents: "Demo" database, "Biker" database, "Demo Spreadsheets" File group in Jedox Web and the "Demo Reports" report group in Jedox Web. Any changes made to this content will be lost during the update Technical Health In 5.0 following target platforms have been added to the supported list: MS Office 2013 Firefox 19 Java 7 Windows 8 (viable) 5.8 New UI Language Portuguese (Brazil) The Jedox 5 User Interface now supports Portuguese (Brazil) in Jedox Web.

33 Documentation Jedox Suite 5.0 has the following new / updated documentation: Jedox Suite Setup Guide 5.0 First steps with Jedox for Excel 5.0 First steps with Jedox Web 5.0 First steps with Jedox ETL 5.0 Jedox Platform Support Guide 5.0 These manuals are available in English, German and French. Only in English available are: Jedox Suite Admin Guide 5.0 (includes the former manuals Jedox OLAP Server, Jedox ETL Server, Jedox Supervision Server, Jedox Security Guide, Jedox Web Sandbox Setup Guide and chapters of the former manuals Jedox for Excel advanced topics and Jedox Web advanced topics). Jedox 3rd Party Software Manual 5.0 Jedox SAP-Connectivity Fixed Issues from Version 4.0 SR1 Issues (features, tweaks and bugs) reported in Version 4.0 SR1 have been fixed/implemented in Version 5.0. The development team thanks those customers and partners who used to log issues. Product Issues Resolved OLAP Server SVS 6 6 Excel Add-In Office Add-In Client Libs ETL Client/Server Scheduler 3 3 Jedox Web Demo Content Documentation Setup A detailed list of all issues can be found in the change log PDF document.