Appboard/2.4/overview/whats new

This page provides a summary of changes in 2.4. For a complete list of all changes including bug and security fixes please refer to the Release Notes.

Staring with AppBoard 2.4 the product now ships with a Welcome set of default content highlighting the major features including examples. This is the recommended way to explore the new features.

Major New Features

• Stacked Widgets: Arrange multiple widgets into the same location
• Tile Map Widget: Google like zoomable tile map making use of Open Street Map data.
• Sparklines: new micro-chart renderers for the table widget.
• Scrolling Text Widget: much more flexible and smoother scrolling replacement to the old Marquee widget.
• Content Export/Import: export one or more stacks and import onto a target system. This allows parts of one system to be overlaid into another system greatly improving workflow between different environments or groups responsible for separate parts of the production system.

Viewer Improvements

• Layout changes now saved: end-users can resize widget containers and this information is stored with the client allowing users to optimize the layout for their particular monitor and preference.
• Home Icon for Web Widgets: new home icon is now visible in the widget title bar for web-widgets allowing the user to quickly restore the configured home URL.
• Improved in-widget search: The search field is now toggled via a icon in the widget title bar. This saves space in the default case and also encourages search via the widely recognized magnifying glass icon.

Builder Improvements

• Multi-Query SQL Data Sources: Define the connection information once, configure one or more SQL queries under the same connection.
• Renaming Data Sources: This wasn't possible prior to AppBoard 2.4.
• Improved Data Collection Status Reporting: The client now reports much more useful information about the state of a data source and the response to the client from the server.
• Hide/Expand Widget Title Bar Icons: reclaim widget title bar space in the builder by hiding all icons in a expandable strip.
• Data Collections now allow multi-column sorting.
• Updated Table Widget: replaces both the old Advanced Table Widget and Table Widget - unifying the capability.
• Data Mode for Widgets: toggled via icon in the Widget title bar this flips the widget over showing a table with the raw data collection.
• Theme-able Modal Dialog Behaviour: A visual thing that can help administrations working on AppBoard via remote-desktop solutions where shading, blurring, and animations can negatively impact usability of the Builder.
• Quick Access to Administration Settings: The Builder Settings page has been updated to include a number of administration settings previously only accessible via the enPortal interface.
• Configurable box-width for Flow style Lists: Previously the box size for Icon and Status Lists was fixed, this now allows for better sizing to suit the labels.