Nevron SharePoint Vision Changelog

What's new in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2015.1

Aug 9, 2016

Nevron Map for SharePoint is an advanced web part for all versions Microsoft SharePoint (WSS3.0, SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013). It is designed to provide an easy and powerful way to create choropleth maps that are tightly integrated with your data. The Map Web Part delivers a great set of features including:
Multiple Map Layers - unlimited number of map layers are supported. Each map layer can display either a predefined or custom ESRI map.
Multiple Legends - unlimited number of legends are supported. Each map layer can be assigned to a different legend. Legends can be manually positioned or docked to map and map plot area.
Multiple Titles - unlimited number of titles are supported. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to map and map plot area.
Predefined Maps - the web part can display predefined maps of the World, USA, and all USA states.
Custom Maps - the web part can display custom ESRI maps (ESRI Shapefile).
Map Projections - support for 22 map projection types.
Map Fill Rules - support for 2 and 3 color gradient filling rules as well as distinct value filling rules.
Map Fill Rules Distribution - support for Equal, Equal Interval and Optimal map values distribution modes.
Map Legend - each map layer can be annotated on a different legend. Legend modes include fill rule ranges and items with template options.
Map Zooming - options to specify the items of the maps to which to zoom. Several zooming modes are provided including Zoom To Bounds, Zoom to Layer, Zoom to Data Bounds Shapes and Zoom to Shapes matching a specific criteria.
Code Embedding - allows you to modify every aspect of the map appearance using C# or VB.NET code.
Nevron Barcode for SharePoint is an advanced web part for all versions Microsoft SharePoint (WSS3.0, SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013). It is designed to provide an easy and powerful way to display data driven linear and matrix barcodes directly inside SharePoint. The Barcode Web Part delivers a great set of features including:
Multiple Barcode areas - unlimited number of barcode areas are supported. Each barcode area can display either a linear or matrix barcode.
Multiple Titles - unlimited number of titles are supported. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to barcode and barcode plot area.
Linear Barcodes - the report item can display 28 linear barcode symbologies, including: Codabar, Code 11, Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 93, Code 128, Code 128A, Code 128B, Code 128C, EAN8, EAN 13, FIM, Interleaved 2 of 5, ISBN, ITF14, JAN13, MSI 2Mod10, MSI Mod10, MSI Mod11, MSI Mod11 Mod10, Pharmacode, PostNet, Standard 2 of 5, Telepen, UPCA, UPCE, UPC Supplemental 2Digit and UPC Supplemental 5Digit.
Matrix Barcode - support for QR Code and PDF417.
Correction Level - support for Low, Medium, Quartile and High correction levels
Scaling Modes - support for fit and custom scale scaling modes.
Pixel Snapping - integrated pixel snapping that displays the barcode in such a zoom level that avoids antialiasing and displays barcode symbols at exact pixels.
Code Embedding - allows you to modify every aspect of the barcode appearance using C# or VB.NET code.
Nevron Chart for SharePoint is also enhanced with the following features:
Tree Map Chart - the new charting type lets you display tree map charts that display hierarchical data from your dataset. The Tree Map chart features many advanced coloring and labeling options.
Linear Regression Calculated Series - this new calculated series helps you display a linear interpolation of a categorical or XY scatter dataset.
Polynomial Regression Calculated Series - this new calculated series helps you display a polynomial interpolation of a categorical or XY scatter dataset. The user can choose the interpolation polynomial degree, meaning that you can interpolate your dataset as a quadratic, cubic or higher degree polynomial.
The Nevron SharePoint Vision JavaScript API has been enhanced with the Query Data Source functions. See Custom Parameters with Nevron JavaScript API for more information.

New in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2014.1 (Dec 12, 2014)

New in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2012.1 (Jun 28, 2012)

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.

New in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2011.1 (Feb 24, 2012)

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.
The SPLIT function from the formula engine has been added.

New in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2010.1 (Jul 28, 2010)

General Features:
Support for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS) - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint provides support for MOSS and WSS. The gauge web part is designed to enhance your SharePoint dashboards, scorecards, report solutions and KPIs, in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services.
Complete Set of Gauge Types - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint provides support for various Radial (Circular) Gauges, Linear Gauges, Numeric Display panels and State Indicators.
Support for Multiple Gauge Areas - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of gauge areas. Each gauge area has its own gauge type. Gauge areas can be automatically or manually arranged. Gauge areas can be nested into one another to create sub gauges.
Support for Multiple Titles - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of titles. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to gauge, gauge areas and gauge plot areas.
Gauge Templates - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for saving and loading templates. Save the gauge state from the designer to XML and then import it in in a different gauge web part.
Binding to Diverse Data Sources - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint can bind to any ODBC, OLEDB or SQLServer data source, binding to Excell Services, Business Data Catalog and SharePoint Lists.
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. Nevron Gauge for SharePoint includes various types of data analysis formulas like: Min, Max, Average and more.
Gauge Types:
Radial / Circular Gauges - Nevron Radial Gauge displays axes, ranges and pointers in a circular fashion. Radial Gauges displays axes, ranges and pointers in a circular fashion. Radial Gauges support the following subtypes Radial Gauge Subtypes - Radial, Quarter North East, Quarter North West, Quarter South West, Quarter South East, Half North, Half South, Half West, Half East and Custom. When using Custom subtype the user can specify custom begin angle, sweep angle, border style etc.
Linear Gauges - Linear Gauges displays axes, ranges and pointers in a linear fashion. Linear Gauges support the following subtypes - Horizontal and Vertical.
Numeric Displays - Numeric Displays can show values in LED fashion. Numeric displays support the following LED styles - Seven Segment Normal, Seven Segment Rounded, Seven Segment Rectangular, Fourteen Segment Normal, Fourteen Segment Rectangular, Fourteen SegmentInset, Matrix Rectangle and Matrix Circle.
State Indicators - State Indicators are supplementary gauges, typically used to visually prompt the user that a value has entered a critical range.
Gauge Axes:
Unlimited Number of Axes per Gauge - Radial and Linear gauge types support an unlimited number of axes, packed with a complete set of features designed to solve even the most complex gauge requirements.
Advanced Axis Positioning Options - Axes can be docked to the gauge sides (or rim) or arbitrary positioned in the gauge model space. In addition you have control over the begin / end axis position relative to the gauge area.
Ruler - Control over the ruler position and appearance.
Ticks - Support for major and minor ticks with control over their appearance and position.
Axis Stripes - Axis Stripes highlight repeating ranges of data on the gauge background, with a controllable show/hide pattern.
Axis Sections - Axis Sections conditionally modify the appearance of axis ticks, gridlines and labels, provided they are within a user-specified data range(s). This feature helps you to highlight important ranges of data along the axis.
Label Layout - axes provide advanced axis-label layout options, which let you resolve complex axis-label overlapping cases.
Label Formatting - Label Formatting controls the formatting of values along numeric scales. Many advanced options for currency, percentage, scientific and date time label formatting are available.
Gauge Formulas:
Min - finds the min value from a set.
Max - finds the max value from a set.
Average - finds the average value from a set.
Median - finds the value that splits the set in half (e.g. half of the values are smaller than median value and half are larger).
First - gets the first value from a set.
Last - gets the last value from a set.
Sum - gets the sum of all values in the set.
Count - gets the count of the values in the set.
Percentile - finds the value that splits the set in a custom percent.
Variance - the variance is used to measure the tendency of the values in the set to deviate from the average.
Standard Deviation - returns the standard deviation of the values in the set.
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 - Nevron Gauge for SharePoint supports customization through C# or VB.NET code, directly in the web part editor, which allows you to use the full Nevron Chart for .NET API in SharePoint.
Rendering:
Support for different image formats
Specify resolution
Image sizing options
Gray scale rendering
On/Off image map rendering
Control over the currently used culture settings - You can select a custom culture or synchronize the currently used culture with the user regional settings.
Appearance Customizations:
Fill Style editor - helps you define the filling of an element. Provides options for solid color, gradient, image and advanced gradient fill types.
Stroke Style editor - helps you define the outline/stroke of an element. Provides options for line caps and joins, line pattern and color.
Shadow Style editor - helps you define the shadow which is casted by an element. Provides options for solid, linear, radial blur and gaussian blur shadows.
Text Style editor - helps you define the default appearance of a text element. Provides options for font size and type, font filling, outline, shadow, backplane etc.
Frame Style editor - helps you define the frame of the component and its panels. Supports artistic/image borders