ADVIZOR Analyst 6.6 Release Notes
August 30, 2015
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This file contains product information for ADVIZOR Analyst 6.6 products. These release notes are available in the User Guide available from ADVIZOR Analyst under "Help".
Index
- Instructional videos are available online.
- Product use is described in the "User Guide" available from within ADVIZOR Analyst from "Help".
- Implementation scenarios and supported hardware and software configurations are described in the "ADVIZOR Implementation Guide" that is located in the directory where ADVIZOR Analyst is installed (typically c:/Program Files/ADVIZOR Soutions/{Product Name}/ADVIZOR Implementation Guide.pdf").
- New in this Release
- Known Problems and Hints
- Technical Support
New in this Release
Improvements for use of ADVIZOR Analyst with Internet Data
- IP address sorting: IP (Internet Protocol) addresses loaded as strings will now sort based on the numeric value of the IP address rather than in string sorted order. No configuration is necessary. This works for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
- Time Zones in text file input: Date fields read from a text file containing a time zone specification may have the times converted either into the time zone on the local computer or to a single specified time zone. This is specified with the file "TimeZoneConversion.ini" that is located in the application installation directory. See that file for further information on use of this feature.
- HP Vertica: The HP Vertica database is now supported as an ODBC data source.
- subnet: The Expression Builder supports a new "subnet()" function that may be used to test if an IP address matches a CIDR specification. This may be used to map IP addresses to subnet names. See the "Expression Builder" topic in the User Guide for more information.
Browser Support
The ADVIZOR Server web client is implemented with a plugin (the Microsoft Silverlight plugin). Some browsers no longer support any plugins, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (in Windows 10). To support these browsers, a new HTML-based client is available. This client is automatically used with these browsers; the existing Silverlight-based client is used in all other browsers.
The new web client is not completely equivalent to the Silverlight-based client:
- The HTML client does not support the Flight Recorder.
- The HTML client does not allow the relative size of charts to be adjusted.
These deficiencies will be remedied in a future release.
Other New Features
- Horizontal zoom bars: Data Sheets and Summary Sheets now have an optional horizontal zoom bar that can be used to pan the contents of the window or expand or contract the width of columns. The horizontal zoom bar is turned on by default, and it is scaled to fully show all columns. Two properties are available in the Property Explorer for these charts to control the operation of the horizontal zoom bar. "Display X axis zoom bar" controls whether the horizontal zoom bar is visible. If there will always be enough space to fully see the data in all columns, turn off the zoom bar with this option so that it does not use screen space. "Show Full Columns", if "true", zooms the X axis so that all data in all columns is visible. Set this to false if you want a manually-set zoom factor to be maintained.
Projects must be re-published to ADVIZOR Server to see horizontal zoom bars on Data Sheets or Summary Sheets.
- Case independent geocode matching: Maps can now match geocode names independent of case. In some cases the geocode names in your data use case inconsistently. Choosing this option from the Map Wizard when configuring the map causes name lookup to be done independent of case. This is done by introducing an upper case version of the geocode field.
- Parabox performance: Performance improvements have been made to the Parabox.
Defects
These defects have been repaired:
| Defect Id | Name |
|---|---|
| 2297 | AID: Data Loader should handle new columns being inserted automatically |
| 2294 | AID: Installer bundle window obscures actual installer window JIRA AID-16 |
| 2176 | AID: Background2 does not show up in Chart Colors dialog as an option |
| 2291 | AID: Parabox values truncated when column made LARGER |
| 2323 | Cannot edit titles in summary sheet if any field is a ratio |
| 2360 | Project opens initially with data unselected |
| 2353 | Document procedure for dealing with data source changes such as table name change |
| 1823 | Documentation should mention how to open project when database password has changed |
| 2314 | Update geocode files with corrections and to avoid confusion |
| 2334 | Modifying roll-up table causes existing expressions to disappear from Project Workshop |
| 2298 | Errors reading North America-City geocode file |
| 983 | Text reader treats apostrophes as quote marks |
| 2154 | Retrieve from Server option fails to download project |
| 2251 | Map Wizard: Automatic map image suggestion always picks globe |
| 2260 | Hitting ENTER after editing Data Sheet heading closes dialog with no change |
| 956 | Editing a SQL Server data source doesn't allow custom server name |
| 2103 | Provide reverse sort by label option on bar chart |
| 128 | Duplicate color scale names should not be allowed |
| 1849 | Cryptic failure when publishing a project with & in name |
| 2267 | Expression Builder should always put grave quotes around field names from list |
| 2281 | subexpressions in link() fields aren't reported as being used |
| 2287 | Selection in Color Legend extreme performance bottleneck on Server |
| 2303 | Change Data Sheet field column title then search on that field crashes |
| 2316 | Color scheme error during project editing |
| 2317 | Cross Table Calculations improvements in authoring |
| 2322 | Changing pages to one with Default color model changes Color Table |
| 2343 | Long expression in link() causes cryptic error |
| 2325 | Link() function returns all Missing for aggregation parameter of 'min' |
| 2326 | Scientific notation may appear in summary sheet |
| 2336 | Crash in calculation in project |
| 2342 | Number of decimal places in ratio selected weight brush should be controllable |
| 2364 | Exception when saving project with a model error prevents saving |
| 2309 | Crash in Analytics when PVal and Training subset are changed |
| 2310 | New Predictive Modeling documentation is outdated--shows Run button |
| 2312 | Document how to model zip codes in Analytics |
| 2288 | Can't open configuration dialog for Summary Sheet with multiple ratios cleanly |
| 2271 | Update Analytic documentation for impact calculation |
| 2275 | Bad filter constraint causes syntax error in project |
| 2295 | All sessions locked on Server when a new session starts |
| 2102 | Histogram selection doesn't unselect missing rows unless shown |
| 185 | Parabox details row doesn't show selected/total counts for bubble plots |
| 1167 | Bad Overall Ratio in Summary Sheet with numerator and denominator both Missing |
| 2247 | Cannot select all items in map on Toshiba laptop |
| 2261 | Error Loading large advm project does not give useful error message |
| 2257 | Analytics edit/delete/view buttons still disabled if dialog closed with cancel |
| 2375 | Expression Builder expression with decimal number fails in Brazil |
Known Problems and Hints
- On Windows 10 with a scaled display, the ADVIZOR Analyst window may be corrupted when the window is resized. This can be remedied using "Compatibility Mode". The the "Troubleshooting" section of the Implementation Guide (referenced above) for a procedure to use to fix this problem.
- Projects must be re-published to ADVIZOR Server to see horizontal zoom bars on Data Sheets or Summary Sheets.
- Models built with versions of ADVIZOR AnalystX before R6.4 are not supported. Please note the configuration of your model and re-create it.
- All projects must be be re-published to ADVIZOR Server for versions predating R6.1.
- See the ADVIZOR Implementation Guide (referenced above) if you are using adv2advm.
- Only install ADVIZOR Server to the default location on the "C" drive. Installing to another location will cause publishing to the server to not work.
- Existing Navigation Panes must be migrated from HTML format to RTF. If you originally created the Navigation Panes in Microsoft Word (or another text editor that will also write RTF files), you can re-write the files and then go to the Page Properties dialog in ADVIZOR Analyst and load the new file. If you do not have the source files, you can create them like this:
- Go to each Navigation Pane in ADVIZOR Analyst.
- Right click in the Navigation Pane and select "Select All" from the popup menu. Right click again and select "Copy" from the popup menu. This copies the current pane contents to the system clipboard.
- Open a text editor such as Microsoft Word and paste from the clipboard.
- Save the pane contents to a file of type "RTF".
- Go to the Page Properties in ADVIZOR Analyst for each page with Navigation Panes and load the new files.
- If you are using Microsoft Word, make sure that the Paragraph format has 0 points of space before and after paragraphs; other specifications are not followed when the text is displayed in ADVIZOR Analyst.
- Only insert images that are in standard image formats such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG. Other formats may not appear if the Navigation Pane is published to ADVIZOR Server.
Technical Support
When submitting a problem to Technical Support, email is the preferred mechanism ([email protected]). In the email, please provide as many of the following as possible:
- Your name & contact information including phone number
- The name of the product you are using and its version number
- Your license key used to install the product
- A detailed explanation of what you were doing that led up to the problem.
- Screen shot(s) and/or exact text of any error information
- Errors are logged to a file at this location; include a copy of this file:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ADVIZOR Solutions\<product name>\error.log
Or
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\ADVIZOR Solutions\error.log on Windows XP
Replace <product name> with Analyst or AnalystX, etc. as applicable to your product.
- Machine's System Information file created from the "System Information" saved as type ".nfo"
- Operating system's Application event log in .evt format so that we get the detailed event descriptions
- If you're having a database access problem, submit all relevant DB information, including DB vendor, DB version, whether the DB is local or remote, whether or not you are able to access the DB using vendor or third party supplied query tools, etc.
If you encounter an error/exception and are offered the opportunity to forward diagnostic information, please do so. However, note that you can help reduce the time to resolution by also including details of the actions that led to the event. Our ability to rapidly understand the problem is significantly increased when we know all the details.
If you cannot find answers to your questions using the online help "Table of Contents", "Index" or "Find" tabs, or in this release notes file, have your application license number handy and contact us:
Call the ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc Technical Support line during business hours (8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Central time, Monday - Friday) at +1.630.971.5250
Acknowledgements
This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.