TIBCO WebFOCUS® 8207.28.0 Now Available

A new version of TIBCO WebFOCUS® 8207 (8207.28) is now available. See the release highlights below and access the TIBCO WebFOCUS 8207.28.0 Release Notes to learn more about the features, enhancements, and fixes introduced in this release.

Release Highlights
New Features:

• New Start Page. The new start page provides navigation to all areas of TIBCO WebFOCUS, serving as a unified tool that offers consolidated authoring capabilities and a seamless administrative experience. The new intuitive user interface allows developers, administrators, and consumers of analytical content to maximize their use of WebFOCUS features in a single dynamic environment.
• Chaining Filters in a Page Assembled From External Content. When a content item or page includes multiple filters, chaining ensures that those filters always return valid values to your content. When you select a value from one of the filter controls, the other controls can be filtered and updated based on the value that you select, if chaining is applied.
• Double List and Toggle Controls For Assembled Pages. Two new controls are available for alphanumeric parameter filters in pages assembled from external content in WebFOCUS Designer. The double list control allows you to select multiple dimension values and reorder them, while the toggle control allows you to switch between two dimension values. Each of these controls is specialized for use with particular kinds of parameters.
• Combining Containers in a Designer Page. In WebFOCUS Designer, you can add multiple content items to a tab, accordion, or carousel container. If you add a single content item to a page using a basic panel container, which can only contain a single item, and then drag a second content item into the same container, you have the option to transform this container into a type of container that supports multiple content items. Additionally, if you have previously added multiple items to a page in separate containers, you can combine them into a single, multi-content container by selecting multiple containers, right-clicking one of them, and selecting a type of container to combine them into.
• Designer Autoprompt Page. Available as an alternative to the default Responsive Autoprompt page, the new Designer Autoprompt template provides the quick and intuitive automatic filtering behavior of autoprompt in a familiar layout that resembles a Designer page. When you run content that includes parameters without default values, an autoprompt page appears first, allowing you to provide values for these parameters before showing the content so that it displays correctly.
• Applying Conditional Styling to Reports in Designer. Conditional styling, also known as traffic lights, is a feature that applies unique styling to cells in a chart or report when their values meet specified criteria. This allows you to highlight values that are especially high or low, or are higher and lower than those in another field, making it easy to spot important information in your content. You can even use conditional styling to add drill down links to values that match your set criteria, allowing users who run the chart or report to access additional context and information pertaining to those records.
• Setting a Time Zone for Date-Time Filters. Fields that include both the date and a timestamp, as opposed to just the date, are considered to have a date-time format. Date-time fields are considered a separate field type from regular date fields. The timestamp in a date-time value can be precise to the millisecond, microsecond, or nanosecond. When you filter a date-time field in a chart, report, or authored page in WebFOCUS Designer, you are presented with the ability to change the time zone in addition to the regular date filtering options, allowing you to filter content based on your local time zone. This means that you can filter content for a date range based on local time, even when the data was recorded in a different time zone. You can set a time zone based on a location or on a UTC offset.
• Changing the Size of Charts and Risers. By default, when you create a chart, it fills the frame in which it is run, and risers and other sections within the chart are sized accordingly. This makes the chart flexible, allowing it to run in large and small containers alike without sacrificing the appearance and legibility of the chart. This automatic sizing also means that you do not need to manually set any size properties for the chart. However, you also have the option to set a consistent size for the chart, if you prefer. You can also determine the width of bars in a bar chart as a percentage of the riser area, and set the width of risers in a bar, area, or line chart, based on the font size of the ordinal axis, or on an exact value that you specify.
• Styling Reports in WebFOCUS Designer. You can style different areas of a report to highlight or call attention to certain groups of values, or to differentiate them to make your report easier to follow. WebFOCUS Designer provides a new set of report styling options that allow you to apply text and cell styling, as well as other properties, to the entire report, or to specific areas within it.
• Paginated Canvas in WebFOCUS Designer. When creating charts and reports, you can change the type of file that is generated when you run your content, by changing the output format. To change the output format, use the Output Format menu, which is now available on the Visualization toolbar in WebFOCUS Designer, so that it is easier to access.
• Changing the Format of Row Totals in a Report. When you add row totals to a report in WebFOCUS Designer, they are evaluated and displayed differently depending on whether across fields are present. If one or more dimension fields have been added to the Columns bucket to create across columns, then measure columns are repeated for each across field value. Consequently, when row totals are added to the report, they are evaluated separately for each measure field, resulting in a separate row total column for each measure. When you add row totals to a report without across fields, on the other
  hand, the values of all measure fields are summed to generate a single column of row totals. Since the measure fields may have different field formats, you can change the format of the row totals in a report without across fields, ensuring that they display the total values in a way that is useful and logical, instead of simply inheriting the format from one of the measure fields.
• Field List Parameters in Designer. Field list parameters are a powerful tool that allows you to provide users with a selection of fields that they can use at run-time to build charts and reports within a framework that you provide. Field list parameters can be added to buckets in place of fields in a chart or report. At run time, users select the fields that they want to display, giving them the power to choose the data that is represented by and displayed in your content. You can complement these field list parameters with fields that always appear in your content, providing a mix of customizable and
  static content. Field list parameters can be single select or, if the bucket allows multiple fields, multi-select, providing even more flexibility. Field list parameters are a key component of InfoApps, which are pages in which users can select the fields that display.
• Analyze Field Relationships With Drill Anywhere. Auto Drill is a feature that allows you to drill into values from fields that are part of a data hierarchy, to see which subcategories within that hierarchy contribute to the values that you drill into, and to what extent. Drill Anywhere, meanwhile, resembles an enhanced version of Auto Drill. It does not require the fields in your initial content to be part of a data hierarchy, and it allows you to drill to any field in your data source, providing a powerful tool to explore relationships between values in different fields. Instead of drilling from a dimension field to its children within a pre-defined data hierarchy, with Drill Anywhere, you drill into a sort value to see which dimension values from the field that you select constitute subsets of that value. The resulting content is filtered by the value that you drilled into.
• Filtering Large and Streaming Data Sources. By default, the filter controls that you create in WebFOCUS Designer include, or are bounded based on, a list of values from your data source, which allows you to more easily select valid values from these controls. However, when working with large or streaming data sources, it may not be prudent to query the data source to retrieve this list, as a large number of values may exceed the maximum that can display in the filter control, or cause performance issues, while values from streaming data sources may change rapidly. As an alternative, when creating a single chart or report, or a page with new content, you can provide dataless filters for specified segments in a data source, in order to conserve the resources needed to perform data retrieval. This filtering behavior is also applied at run time in pages created with new content. Filtering behavior in autoprompt and in pages assembled from existing content is not affected.
• Matching Columns When Creating Unions Using Metadata Classification. When creating unions from different data sources, the metadata classification algorithm matches columns with similar data.
• New Machine Learning Functions When Creating Data Flows. In addition to Regression models, you can now train and run Binary Classification and Anomaly Detection models when using Machine Learning functions on your data.
• Associating Multiple Remote Git Repositories With One Local Git Repository. Once you have created a local Git repository as an application in the server, you can add additional remote Git repositories associated with the same local repository.
• Support for Trigonometric Functions. New trigonometric functions are now available. 
• Support for Negative Formats for Zero. Using the SET NEG-ZERO command, you can display the value zero (0) as a negative number when it is the result of rounding a negative decimal value.
• Adapters For Google Analytics and Google Sheets: Support for Proxy Server. When you configure the Adapter for Google Analytics or Google Sheets, you now have the option to configure the following proxy server properties in the Advanced HTTP connection options section: PROXY Server IP Address, PROXY Port, PROXY HTTPS Relative Path.

Fixes:
This release included over 80 fixes across the various product areas. For a comprehensive list, see the Release Notes.

Questions?
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