Release Notes 6.4 - CXO Catalog


Over the years, we’ve worked hard to provide our customers with standardized reporting solutions, and to drive collaboration between different users and reporting teams. Every new CXO Software customer receives 18 standard dashboard templates as part of their licensing package, which we have created based on the best reporting practices of selected users around the world. 


Now, with CXO Catalog, we are going one stage further. This new feature of our software, which is free to existing license holders and a central part of the new iteration of CXO Software, 6.4, allows CXO users to directly share their best practice dashboard innovations with other organizations.


CXO Catalog

CXO Catalog website

Customers can access the dashboard of CXO Catalog in a secure login area on the CXO Catalog website, where the reports can be downloaded and reviewed by leaving comments and giving it a ranking out of five. 

In case you have a particularly successful report, please submit it to the CXO Software team, we will then anonymize the data and upload it to the website! This way other customers can also benefit from your great report.

CXO Catalog Wizard

After hitting the add button on the CXO Catalog website, the selected report will be added to your application. Automatically a wizard will open: just follow the different steps in the wizard, click on finish and the report is ready to be used!

The report behaves as all other reports in CXO, so just make changes to the report to meet specific business needs.




Additional new features  

Several new features are introduced in version 6.4 that are not only useful for CXO Catalog, but for CXO use in general!

Navigate to function for Image control

We see that redirects are often used in our application, but redirects only worked with text. In version 6.4 we introduce redirects that work with images. Simply click on an image and you are redirected to another report or URL. This way we want to make the navigation inside CXO easier.

Donut Charts

We already have the Pie chart control and we have extended that function with the option to create a Donut chart. Especially when you want to focus on a specific number in your Pie chart, you can use the Donut chart option to display the number in the middle of your Donut.



Variances in Bars and Lines Chart

We missed the option to show variances as positive / negative colors in Charts. But not anymore in version 6.4! The Variance formula that you normally could only use in tables, can now also be used in charts. Variances can be displayed as bars or as fill area! 


Ranking lists

In this version we also introduce a new list type: Ranking lists. In CXO you can create rankings with MDX lists, but that is often not that easy as you have to know how to write the MDX script. With Ranking lists we now make ranking accessible for all report builders.


Bugs solved in this release:

  • DEV-11620 - Storyboard - not possible to scroll down to press play
  • DEV-11757 - Suppress No Data And Zeros in case of Suppress Value
  • DEV-11820 - Published reports show under unpublished
  • DEV-13482 - Security - POV filters order randomly commute when drag and drop
  • DEV-13807 - Information - Item not used, but is used in dimension split
  • DEV-14346 - CXO Designer unauthorized after login
  • DEV-14391 - Storyboard - different title for storyboard's page name doesn't work as expected
  • DEV-14467 - Storyboard - the original name of the report is not shown anymore when the title is changed
  • DEV-14516 - Storyboard - Report previews visible where no report access has been granted
  • DEV-14523 - Maximum variance setting not working with tiles
  • DEV-14586 - Dynamic lists not working for dimensions with multiple roll-ups
  • DEV-14753 - Change of authentication settings for SAML generates an error in CXO Configurator
  • DEV-14794 - Password expiration date error
  • DEV-14872 - Mailto links don't work with the label control
  • DEV-15165 - Member is not available
  • DEV-15251 - Chart: Negative data labels do no show under bars
  • DEV-15264 - Reports by template empty
  • DEV-15289 - Footer isn't disabled when hiding page numbers
  • DEV-15299 - Not able to copy report
  • DEV-15399 - Linked formats not being copied
  • DEV-15461 - Option to create 'report format' not visible in format drop down
  • DEV-15462 - Copy 'report format' does not work
  • DEV-15465 - Rich text editor error
  • DEV-15553 - Variance settings in lists not inheriting from variance settings in control
  • DEV-15554 - Error message on variance formula