This is a minor release with some small bug fixes, directly following the 2.2.4 release.
- Fixed replacement rules for parameters in iFrames/Markdown reports. #17
- Added automatic header text color switch for reports with a dark background #420
- Fixed handling right click events (for graph exploration) in Neo4j Desktop #415.
- Added support for unweighted Sankey charts #419
This release is a feature-rich package with a variety of new features and bug fixes. NeoDash 2.2.4 features new visualizations, as well as new features in existing visualization components.
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Area Map - New!
- Added a new advanced chart interactive area map visualization for rendering geo json polygons. (@alfredorubin96, #401)
- Assign color scale automatically based on numeric values.
- Assign colors to countries based on Alpha-2 and Alpha-3 codes, and area codes by ISO 3166 code.
- Interactive drilldown by clicking on regions in a country.
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Graph Visualization
- Added lightweight, ad-hoc graph exploration by relationship type and direction. (@nielsdejong, #401)
- Added experimental graph editing: nodes and relationships, plus creating relationships between existing nodes. (@nielsdejong, #401)
- Fixed incorrect assignment of chip colors in graph visualization footer. (@BennuFire, #296)
- Added experimental CSV download button to graph visualizations. (@JonanOribe, #288, #363)
- Fixed a bug where dashboard parameters were not dynamically injected into drilldown links. (@nielsdejong, #397)
- Added setting to customize the size of the arrow head on an edge. Set to zero to disable directional rendering. (@BennuFire, #410)
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Single Value Chart
- Added support for outputting dictionaries in YML format, and rendering new lines. (@nielsdejong, #315)
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Choropleth Map
- Added polygon information for missing countries: France, Kosovo, and others. (@BennuFire, #357)
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Parameter Selector
- Fixed bug where the parameter selector was not using the selected database to populate results. (@BennuFire, #366)
- Added a date picker parameter selector type for natively specifying dates. (@alfredorubin96, #401)
- Added support for injecting custom queries as a populator for parameter selector suggestions. (@BennuFire, #236, #369)
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Table Chart
- Added support for customizing the seperator in csv exports. (@nielsdejong, #337)
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Others
- Added support for easily configurable branding/color schemes of the editor. (@nielsdejong, #401)
- Added a new report action to switch pages based on a user interaction. (@BennuFire, #324)
- Added handler for mulitple report actions to be executed on the same event. (@BennuFire, #324)
- Integrated the official released version of the Neo4j Cypher editor component. (@jharris4, #365)
- Fixed hot-module replacement inside webpack configuration. (@konsalex, #396)
- Fixed husky pre-commit hook not triggering correctly on Windows environments. (@bastienhubert, #342)
- Add support for using complex objects in markdown, iframes and report titles. (@BennuFire, #413)
This releases fixes a small set of bugs that slipped through the 2.2.3 release, and adds some minor features:
- Added support for scatter plots by overriding a parameter in the line chart.
- Added the ability to use dashboard parameter as filters in custom parameter selector queries.
- Fixed breaking bug in parameter selector settings causing a white-screen error.
- Fixed auto-coloring of bar charts (resolved back to logic of 2.2.1 and earlier).
- Added a quick fix for automatically resetting the parameter display value when the property display override is toggled.
- Upversioned outdated dashboards and in the NeoDash Gallery.
The NeoDash 2.2.2 release is packed with a bunch of new usability features:
- Changed the built-in Cypher editor to a brand-new CodeMirror Editor.
- Rebuilt the Parameter Select component from scratch for improved stability, performance and extendability:
- Added an optional setting to the parameter selector to display a different property from the one that is set by the selector.
- Use this to - for example - let users choose a name and set an ID for use by other reports.
- Fields no longer reset randomly when parameters are changed.
- Freetext fields are no longer slow - perform as fast as the other selectors.
- Add the option to use rule-based styling based on dashboard parameters.
- Changed rule-based styling on bar and pie charts to override color scheme instead of clear the scheme.
- Extended the Example Gallery with several new demos.
- Adding intermediate report error boundaries for improved app stability.
- Changed docker image name to
neo4jlabs/neodash. - Improved documementation for developers.
- Fixed inconsistent styling between different pop-up screens, and fixed report title placeholders.
This update provides a number of usability improves over the 2.2.0 release. In addition, it entails various improvements to the codebase, including security patches on the dependencies.
Table:
- Column names prefixed with
__are now hidden in the table view.
Map:
- Added documentation for adding a custom map provider.
Parameter selector:
- Added support for boolean parameters.
Editor:
- Parameters are now automatically replaced inside report titles.
- Image downloads now include the report title alongside the visualization.
Others:
- Applied security patches for dependencies.
- Set test container for release pipeline to fixed version of Neo4j.
- Aligned code style / linting with Neo4j product standards.
- Updated Docker setup to inject
standaloneDashboardURLinto the application config.
This release marks the official arrival of Extensions, which provide a simple way of extending NeoDash with additional features. Adding your own features to NeoDash just became a lot easier!
NeoDash 2.2 comes with three in-built extensions.
- Rule-Based Styling
- Advanced Visualizations: These provide a means to enable complex visualizations in a dashboard. These were previously available as Radar charts, Treemaps, Circle Packing reports, Sankey charts, Choropleth and a Gauge Chart).
- Report Actions: Which let you create interactivity in dashboards, using the output of one report as input for another visualization. (Pro Extension)
You can enable extensions by clicking the 🧩 icon on the left sidebar of the screen.
Other changes include:
- New example dashboards available in the Dashboard Gallery.
- Customizable background colors for all report types.
- Fixing a bug where the Choropleth map chart was unable to parse country-codes.
This is a minor update which adds some operational/styling improvements, and a bug fix for line charts.
Changes:
- Added customizable label positions for bar charts.
- Fixed bug where datetimes were not handled correctly by line charts. (neo4j-labs#243)
- Added session parameters, set automatically and available to Cypher queries (Documentation).
- Added option to restore debug reports in recovery mode.
- Added option to share dashboards from self-hosted deployments.
New features:
- Added the Dashboard Gallery, a live gallery of example NeoDash dashboards.
- Added Gauge Charts, a contribution of the BlueHound fork.
- Updated testing pipeline to work as an independent procedure.
- Added option to select a different Neo4j database for each report. (#188)
- Added Report Actions, a neodash extension (available in beta) only on https://neodash.graphapp.io. (#27)
Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue preventing dashboards to be shared with a non-standard database name.
- Fixed table chart breaking when returning a property called 'id' with a null value.
- Fixed bug not allowing users to select a different database when loading/saving a dashboard.
- Added error handler for database list race condition in Neo4j Desktop.
New features:
- Added Radar Charts/Spider Charts.
- Added optional markdown description for each report, to be displayed via the header.
Extensions:
- Added option to provide a custom map provider for map charts.
- Added support for default values in parameter selectors.
- Added documentation on deep-linking into NeoDash.
- Added tick-rotation customization for line charts.
- Added option to have children in the sunburst chart inherit colors from their parents.
Improvements:
- Rewiring of the internal query/rendering engine - resulting in far fewer query executions and a smoother UX.
- Changed package manager from
npmtoyarn, and bumped node version to 18. Cleaned uppackage.json. - Reduced flaky behaviour in parameter selectors.
- Added cycle-detection logic for sankey charts.
- Fixed report documentation pop-up to open link in a new window.
Added New Sankey charts:
- Visualize nodes and relationships as a flow diagram.
- Select a customizable flow value from relationship properties.
- Configure a variety of style customizations.
Parameter select:
- Fixed bug where values would randomly be deleted after changing the parameter.
- Added option to customize the number of suggested values when a user enters (part of) a property value.
- Added option to customize search type (CONTAINS, STARTS WITH, or ENDS WITH).
- Added option to enable/disable case-sensitive search.
- Added option to enable/disable removing duplicate suggestions.
Miscellaneous:
- Extended documentation with examples on running NeoDash in Kubernetes.
- Fixed issue where duplicate database names were visible when running NeoDash on an on-prem Neo4j cluster.
Added hotfix for missing function in map visualization (neo4j-labs#183).
The 2.1.3 release contains updates to the map visualization, as well as a new Choropleth map report type. Several usability improvements were also added, including fixing all links into the new documentation pages.
- Extended the map visualization with a heatmap mode & marker clustering.
- Added a Choropleth map visualization report type.
- Added support for auto-linking into a predefined database from https://tools.neo4jlabs.com/.
- Added optional background color setting for reports.
- Added a new 'resize mode' for page layout creation.
- Added support for drawing dates on a time chart (in addition to existing datetime types).
- Fixed broken links in the documentation portal, all in-app links now point to this portal as well.
The 2.1.2 release contains some bug fixes and minor improvements to the application.
Application changes:
- Added button to clone (duplicate) a report inside a dashboard.
- Added option to show/hide labels inside circle packing charts.
- Changed dashboard layout compaction strategy to be more natural.
- Fixed card headers not rendering correctly in read-only mode.
- Fixed rendering issues for table columns containing null values.
Operational changes:
- Added support for username/password environment variables in Docker.
The 2.1 release is a major update to the NeoDash application.
Main updates:
- Added new drag-and-drop dashboard layout - reports can be moved and resized freely within the dashboard.
- Updated dashboard file format for new layout (2.0 dashboards are automatically migrated).
- Pages can now be reordered by dragging and dropping.
- Added three new hierarchical report types:
- Treemaps
- Sunburst Charts
- Circle Packing Charts
- Styling/usability improvements for pie charts.
- Improved image download (screenshot functionality) for all report types.
- Parameter select reports now resize the selector to fit the available space.
Other changes:
- Added continuous integration and deployment workflows.
- Created a new User Guide with documentation on all report customizations is available.
- Added a new Developer Guide with info on installing, building and extending the application.
This is the final minor update before the 2.1 release.
Changes:
- Several stability improvements before the 2.1 release.
- Updated Dockerfile to make better use of caching, and pick up environment variables at run time.
- Added option to replace dashboard parameters in Markdown/iFrames to make them dynamic.
- Removed unneeded index column from the CSV download for tables.
- Added optional dashboard setting to enable image downloads for reports/the entire dashboard.
Report features:
- Added optional "Download as CSV" button to table reports.
- Dashboard parameters can now be used in iFrames/Graph drilldown links, and they are automatically replaced when parameters get updated.
- Updating a dashboard parameter now only refreshes the reports that use the parameter.
Standalone mode:
- Enabled deploying standalone dashboards with a direct URL to the dashboard.
- Added functionality to deep link into a NeoDash dashboard with dashboard parameters (use ?neodash_variable_name=value in the URL).
Miscellaneous Bug fixes and improvements:
- Resolved crash caused by invalid geospatial properties in a Map visualization.
- Saving a dashboard now lets users override an existing dashboard with the same name (enabled by default).
- Increased the default row limits for line/bar/pie charts to 250. Added option to override the row limiter in the dashboard settings.
- Updated project README file to refer to the correct port number on Docker deployments.
- Enabled a configurable timeout for parameter selection reports, both a timeout for the suggestion retrieval and a timeout for updating the parameters.
- Fixed dependency issues when installing the application on Windows systems. Bumped suggested npm version to 8.6.
This is a bug fix/minor usability update.
Changes:
- Resolved error where the float value 0.0 was rendered as 'null' in tables.
- Added alphabetical sorting to all node/relationship inspection pop-ups & parameter select reports.
- Resolved bug where switching pages quickly resulting in an error message.
- Resolved bug where rule-based styling would break on null values.
- Replaced margin-based styling on single value reports with a vertical alignment option.
Added rule-based styling:
- Use the card settings to specify styling rules for tables, graphs, bar/pie/line charts and single values.
- Conditional rules are evaluated on each report render in order of priority.
- Rules can customize colors in tables, node colors & dynamically set the colors of components in your chart.
Minor improvements:
- Better handling of null values in tables.
- Tweaking/reorganization of the Docker file and deployment scripts.
- Renaming/restructuring of source code.
Stability fixes to supplement 2.0.7:
- Hotfix for missing config file in Neo4j Desktop causing startup issue.
- Hotfix for application crashes caused by rendering custom data types in transposed table views.
- Hotfix for object rendering in tables & line-chart type detection.
- Fix for rendering dictionaries in tables/single value charts.
- Added resize handler for fullscreen map views.
- Added missing auto-run config to pie charts.
- Fixed broken value scale parameter for bar charts.
Application functionality:
- Added standalone 'dashboard viewer' mode.
- Added option to save/load dashboards from other Neo4j databases.
Reports/Visualizations:
- Fixed bug in creating line charts.
- Added support for datetime axis in line charts.
- Added auto-locale formatting to number values in single value / table reports.
- Added unified renderer for value types.
- Updated default font size for single value reports.
- Added optional deep-link button for graph visualizations.
- Added option to disable auto-running a report, to let users explore the query first.
- Minor styling tweaks to the graph views.
For Developers:
- Added more documentation on extending the app.
- New security-vetted docker image available on Docker hub.
Major version updates to all internal dependencies. NeoDash 2.0.6 uses Node 17+, react 17+ and recent versions of all visualization libraries.
Visualizations:
- Added pie charts (Including examples and new demo dashboard).
- Added setting to transpose table rows and columns.
- Improved styling on graph pop-up windows.
- Graph visualizations now auto-fit to the report size.
- Added button to reset the zoom on a graph report.
Parameter selection:
- Added relationship property / free text selection options.
Editor:
- Improved performance of inbuilt Cypher editor.
- Added button to maximize cards while in edit-mode.
- All reports are now maximizable by default.
- Added tiny report sizes.
- Added option to override the default query timeout of twenty seconds.
Other:
- Updated docker image build scripts.
- Fixed share link geneneration incorrectly removing capitals from usernames/passwords.
Graph report:
- Fixed node position after dragging nodes.
- Added option to 'lock' graph views, storing the current positions of the nodes in the graph.
- Added experimental graph layouts.
Table:
- Fixed bug where the report freezes for very wide tables.
- Added support for rendering native/custom Neo4j types in the table.
Parameter select:
- Fixed issue where the dashboard crashes for slow connections.
Editor:
- Added button to create a debug file from the 'About' screen.
New features:
- Added option dashboard setting to let users view reports in a fullscreen pop-up.
- Added inspection pop-up for graph visualizations.
- Added option to manually specify node labels/property names in parameter selection reports (for large databases).
- Added example of how to user map visualizations from derived properties.
- Added button to return to the welcome screen.
- iFrames can now take live parameter selections in the hash-part of the URL.
Bug fixes:
- Dashboards will now remember the active selection(s) made in parameter select reports.
- Graph visualizations will no longer draw overlapping lines when a pair of nodes shares bidirectional relationships.
- connection screen is now dismissable if an existing connection exists.
Special thanks to @JipSogeti for their contributions to this release.
UX improvements + bug fixes.
- Parameter selection report:
- fixed bug to allow for selecting properties from nodes with >5 distinct properties.
- Added support for nodes and properties with spaces in their name.
- Sharing:
- Removed persisted URL in share links to avoid getting stuck on shared dashboards
- Table:
- Added option to specify relative column sizes
- Graph:
- Changed node styling to use the last (most specific label) for applying customizations
- Fixed error where incorrect properties were extracted from graphs with multi-labeled nodes
- Fixed node display to hide "undefined" when a non-existing property is selected for that node.
New & Improved Dashboard Editor
- Added new Cypher editor with syntax highlighting / live syntax validation.
- Redesigned Cypher query runner to be 2x more performant.
- Easy custom styling of reports with the "advanced report settings" window.
- Added in-built documentation with example queries and visualizations.
- Updated dashboard layout to better use screen real estate.
Visualizations
- Table View
- New table view with post-query sorting and filtering, and highlighting of native Neo4j types.
- Fixed array property display in table reports.
- Added automatic link generation from URL properties in the table report.
- Graph View
- Updated graph visualization library to a canvas-based renderer, handling 4x larger graphs.
- Added custom node/relationship styling with custom colors, width, and font-size.
- Better property display on graph visualization hover.
- Bar/Line Chart
- New bar/line chart visualizations based on the Charts graph app.
- Added support for multi-line charts, stacked/grouped bar charts.
- Added log scale + explicit limit setting to bar/line charts.
- Line chart hover values are no longer rounded and incorrectly stacked.
- Map View
- Added custom styling options to map visualizations.
- Added dictionary-based point property rendering on maps.
- Stability improvement of map views for offline deployments.
- Single Value Report
- Improved single value report.
- Custom styling (text alignment) of single value reports.
- Property Selection:
- Improved property selection documentation.
- Added optional "clear parameter" setting to parameter selection report.
- property selector now uses the filter to gather more results.
Saving, loading and sharing
- Added setting to turn entire dashboard into 'Standalone mode' from a share link.
- Added option to save/load dashboards from both files and text.
- New "Try a demo" button on the welcome screen.
- added save/load to Neo4j database feature.
- Auto-convert older versions of NeoDash on load.