L2021.11 Release Notes

L2021.11

For a list of release dates and Sisense's end of support schedule, see Sisense Life Cycle.

You can download the latest Sisense version from here.

Release Overview

Release L2021.11 provides a number of new features and significant improvements to Sisense for Linux. For example:

• Copying Theme Identifier
• Defining a Time Period for Support User Access
• Extended Retention of Usage Analytics
• Testing Email Server Configuration
• Web Access Token - Monitoring Usage Statistics
• Installing Sisense Using Provisioner and Helm

What's New

Copying Theme Identifier

• You can apply a theme by copying the theme ID and adding it to the code to make modifications to the visuals on your server. For example, you can apply a theme to specific groups, or when embedding Sisense components in web pages, you can use the theme to make visual changes to pages.
  

• In Admin > Look and Feel, select a theme, click the action buttons and select Copy Theme Identifier. See Customizing the User Interface.

Defining a Time Period for Support User Access

• For Cloud Managed Services customers only!
• This feature has been improved to add the possibility of selecting a time period for granting access to Sisense Support agents to access your Sisense application to help and troubleshoot issues as long as the feature is turned on.
• Go to Admin > General Settings > Support User Access to select the time period. See Configuring General System Settings.

Extended Retention of Usage Analytics

• You can now set the number of days for retaining usage analytics through the Sisense UI.
  
• The current size on the disk of the Usage Analytics Elasticube has been added to help you plan the number of days required.

• Go to Admin > Usage Analytics to set the required number of days. See Activating Usage Analytics.

Testing Email Server Configuration

• An administrative user may now test the email configuration to ensure it is set up correctly.
  

• In Admin> Email Settings, click Test, enter an email address and click Send. See Configuring Email Settings

Web Access Token - Monitoring Usage Statistics

• This Web Access Token functionality enables you to monitor each successfully established WAT-based session. Specifically, when a user clicks the Web Access Token link and a token “session” is created, or a Web Access Token-based asset, embedded into the third party's website, loads.
  

• In Admin > Web Access Tokens, select a token configuration and select View Usage Statistics. See Using Web Access Token.

Installing Sisense Using Provisioner and Helm

• Provisioner provides a simplified, elegant and efficient solution for installing, upgrading and/or maintaining Sisense on an existing Kubernetes cluster, deploying Sisense by using a single Helm Chart, the simplest way of getting started with Sisense on Kubernetes. See Installing Sisense Using Provisioner and Helm.
• To install:
  • Verify the necessary prerequisites, run preparation commands to install HELM 3 and install Sisense using Provisioner on the existing Kubernetes.

What's Improved

Embedding and Security

• As of version L2021.5 and later, Whitelist Embedded Domain List affects the ancestor-frames directive of the Content Security Policies, even when the CSP feature is disabled. See Optional Security Hardening for Web Pages.
• If you embed Sisense, re-check that Whitelist includes all relevant embedding domains before upgrading. See Session Management and Security Settings.

Simply Ask NLQ

• Indexing in NLQ has been improved so that there are significantly reduced implications on performance, memory and storage consumption when enabling Indexing. Indexing is a feature in Simply Ask that, when enabled on a field, allows users to ask directly about the specific values of that field, for example, “show me sales for iphone 11".

What's Fixed

Administration

• Documentation: Backing up and Restoring SisenseThe Backup and Scheduled Backup command tables are updated.
• Live Models (Snowflake Redshift): The weekly values reported by the “Current Period" trend line were erroneously shifting by one week.

Dashboards and Widgets

• Area map and Scatter map widgets are supported in Web Access Token environments.
• Users can now mix widgets from different models (Live + EC) and use dashboard filters. Widgets will ignore unrelated filters and return the correct result.

Data Modeling

• Custom Code for Notebooks has been enabled by default (as of version 2021.9 and later).

Data Sources and Connectors

• Fixed compatibility issue with SisenseJS.v1 and Blox.
• For live models (powered by the new analytical engine) user can now:Use the quotient function (new for live models).
• Select rsum quick functions.
• Select ravg quick function.

Embedding Sisense

• The left pane is repaired to display for Iframe embedding on Ipad Layout in accordance with the embedding configuration.

Live Connector

• Export to CSV - Rows exported to CSV from a Live widget based on Snowflake are no longer limited to 50000 rows.