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The Gauge Web Parts now use the highly optimized Nevron Chart for .NET 2014.1 charting engine. This leads to rendering performance improvements.
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- Expressions Everywhere
Nearly all properties of the Gauge web parts, can now be specified by expressions. Appearance styles (fill, stroke, shadow and text) are also reworked to support both constant specification and specification that is based on expressions. This allows you to bind nearly all configurable aspects of the web part to user defined parameters and/or data. Expressions are now available even in data source connections, which makes it possible to create dynamic data source binding, based on expressions and parameters.
- Controllable Visibility of Essential Gauge elements
Gauge Areas and Gauge Titles now have controllable visibility. This new feature in combination with expressions can help you dynamically change the type of data visualization (flip between radial and linear gauge, dynamically show/hide titles etc.).
- Conditional Gauge Indicator Appearance
The filling and stroking of gauge indicators can now be specified with expressions. This allows you to quickly author complex "color coding" logic.
- New Predefined Parameters
The set of predefined parameters has been increased to include the following:
Related to SharePoint User: [UserName], [UserLoginName], [UserId]. With the help of these parameters it is now possible to author audience sensitive expressions (i.e. evaluate to different values, based on who is viewing the web parts).
Related to Browser: [BrowserName], [BrowserMajorVersion], [BrowserMinorVersion], [BrowserScreenWidth], [BrowserScreenHeight]. With the help of these parameters it is now possible to author browser sensitive expressions (i.e. evaluate to different values, based on the current user browser).
- Ability to Consume SharePoint Field Filters as Parameters
SharePoint Field Filters can now be sent to the Gauge webpart. Because SharePoint Field Filters are supported by nearly all filter webparts that come along with SharePoint (Text Filter, Date Filter, Query String Filter etc.), it is now possible to author complex dashboards, with user driven parameters entirely visually.
- Rendering Improvements
The overall speed of the entire rendering process has been improved. This is due to optimizations in webparts rendering engines, the webparts template models and the storage of temporary image data. Added was a new Image Acquisition Mode - Embedded (selected by default), that eliminates the need for temporary image data and an additional GET request in case the SharePoint page is viewed with modern browsers that support image embedding (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 9 etc.). IE 8 has limited support for image embedding and such is not present in IE 7 and IE 6. For such old browsers, the webparts automatically falls back to HttpHandler mode.
- Configuration/Diagnostics Improvements
The Gauge web parts now support full error and command logs, that can help you diagnose problems related to their runtime behavior. The config file has been extended to support session state and auto storage, that smartly chooses between session state, application state and SharePoint specific stores of webpart or web page based temporary data.
- New Data Source Connection - SharePoint Site Query
The Gauge web parts can now connect to a new type of data source - SharePoint Site Query. This allows you to display aggregated data, that is extracted from multiple sites and/or lists.
- Nevron Vision for SharePoint 2012 Vol. 1 fixed the following problems:
Problems Related to the IE Family of Browsers
This release fixes many problems related to the most problematic family of browsers - Internet Explorer. We have fixed the overflow problems with webpart preview, data source fields as well as with all editors that can possibly overflow in result to long data source field names. The web-colors picker now highlights the selected and the hovered colors.
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- Parameters and drill down reports
This exciting new feature allows for the development of interactive dashboards and drill down reports. Parameters can be consumed from any expression, they can be passed as arguments to the newly added JumpToReport action. Parameters can also be directly integrated into any SharePoint page.
- SharePoint List and WebPartTable data sources connection
The Gauge Web Part has the ability to connect to SharePoint List and WebPartTable data sources that reside in a StaticSite (fixed site), CurrentSite (dynamic site) and CurrentWeb (dynamic web). The site resolution mode allows you to develop web parts templates that can be directly deployed to production environments without the need to refactor the data source connection.
- WebParts Config File
The new Web Parts Config File provides the ability to globally (per site-server) configure some user interface elements visibility and some aspects of the web parts behavior through a configuration file. This allows you to fine tune the web parts to perform better and more reliably in the context of your SharePoint environment.
- Gauges are now using deferred rendering
This allows for the instant showing of very complex SharePoint pages as the Nevron Gauge Web Part will defer the data aggregation and rendering tasks in separate AJAX requests to the server. This allows for faster data processing that fully utilizes your server capabilities, as separate AJAX requests can be handled by different threads of your server. It also helps the user to actually see what is currently being processed, opposed to the immediate rendering mode in which the SharePoint page gets served to the client after all web parts have aggregated the data and rendered the respective visual representation.
- Automatic Refresh
The Gauge Web Part can now be instructed to automatically refresh itself at the client side, at user specified intervals of time. This allows for the development of real time dashboards that automatically update themselves at the client side through AJAX, and eliminates the need for manual web page refresh.
- Web Part Designer
The Gauge designer now show the current user, site and web and other info about the context of which they are performing the web part editing.
- Image Fill Style
A new Image Fill Style has been added to all Fill Style editors. This feature allows you to display image based textures on all gauge elements that have an associated fill style.
- Connection to Custom Web Parts
Provides the ability to connect the Gauge web part to other web parts that implement the IWebPartTable interface. This allows you to develop custom web parts that surface any type of data, that cannot be accessed by the currently available data source connections.
- Performance Improvements
The Gauge control document building and rendering has been completely revised. As a result you should see significant speed improvement.
- XML formatted texts
The XML formatted texts feature is extended to support additional XML tags that allows you to specify the text background and border.
- New Gauge Examples
Several new Gauge examples have been included with the new version.
- Additional Improvements:
- You no longer need to be the site administrator to visually browse the sites, webs, lists and views.
- The Web Parts are now using only FIPS (stands for "U.S. Government Federal Information Processing Standards") compliant cryptography algorithms. This allows for the safe deployment of Nevron Web Parts to FIPS enabled SharePoint servers.
- The Web Parts are no longer using state files – resolved permission/security issues and improves the web parts behavior in farm environments.
- Connecting to Excel Services has been fixed.
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The SPLIT function from the formula engine has been added
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- General Features
- Support for MOSS 2007 and WSS
- Complete Set of Gauge Types
- Multiple Gauge Areas
- Multiple Titles
- Gauge Templates
- Binding to Diverse Data Sources
- Pivot Data Aggregation
- Blazing Fast Gauge Designer
- Code Customization
- Gauge Formulas
- Gauge Types
- Radial / Circular Gauges
- Linear Gauges
- Numeric Displays
- State Indicators
- Gauge Axes Features
- Unlimited Number of Axes per Gauge
- Advanced Axis Positioning Options
- Ruler
- Ticks
- Axis Stripes
- Axis Sections
- Label Layout
- Label Formatting
- Gauge Indicator Features
- Unlimited number of Indicators
- Ranges
- Pointers
- Gauge Formulas
Gauges are designed to provide data analysis to sets of numeric values. Gauge formulas can be applied to the aggregated sets applicable to axis ranges {min and max}, ranges {begin and end} and pointer and numeric display values. Supported are the following gauge formulas:
- Min
- Max
- Average
- Median
- First
- Last
- Sum
- Count
- Percentile
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
- Advanced Features
- Advanced Pivot Aggregation
The pivot data aggregation capabilities embedded in Nevron Gauge for SharePoint are only comparable to the ones provided by leading reporting tools. However none of these solutions provides this level of flexibility and ease of configuration inside SharePoint nor the advanced data visualization of Nevron.
- Image Filters
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint is the only gauge web part to provide Adobe Photoshop like image filter effects, which are applicable to all gauge elements - these include bevel, emboss, lighting filters etc. When it comes to shadows it is the only gauge for SharePoint, which has soft shadows (based on Gaussian and Radial blur image filters).
- XML Formatted Texts
This feature is applicable to all elements which display text. It allows you to mix fonts, mix bold, italic underline formatting and many other advanced features like different fill styles, shadows, image filters etc. - all inside a single label, title etc. XML formatted texts use a format similar to HTML, but with many more advanced options.
- Blazing Fast Gauge Designer
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint features an advanced designer, which is built with jQuery UI. The designer supports all major web browsers and does not require any plugins (like Silverlight or Flash). It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the client-server communication is brought to a minimum. The server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering. The client-side is pure HTML, CSS and jQuery JavaScript.
- Code Customization
The gauge web part allow for users with development experience to inject custom C# or VB.NET code, which is compiled and executed at runtime. The code injection feature helps you utilize the wide range of additional customization options, which are exposed by the Nevron Chart for .NET API.
- Rendering
- Support for different image formats
- Image sizing options
- Gray scale rendering
- On/off image map rendering
- Control over text and geometry antialiasing
- Control over the currently used culture settings
- Appearance Customizations
- Fill Style editor
- Stroke Style editor
- Shadow Style editor
- Text Style editor
- Frame Style editor
- Gauge Code Customization
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