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NeoDash 2.4.1

This is a patch release following 2.4.0. It contains several new features for self-hosted (standalone) NeoDash deployments, as well as a variety of UX improvements for dashboard editors.

Included:

  • Improvements to customizability of the bar chart (styling, legend customization, report actions). #689
  • Improved dashboard settings interface, fixed alignment for table download button. #729
  • Adjusted ordering of suggested labels/properties for parameter selectors. #728
  • Better handling of date parameters when saving/loading dashboards. #727
  • Fixed incorrect z-index issue for form creation modals. #726
  • Adjusted filtering tooltip on tables to avoid hiding result data. #712
  • Fixed uncontrolled component issue for dashboard import modal. #711
  • Adjusted font color of graph context popups to use theme colors. #699
  • Adjust sidebar database selector to only show active databases. #698
  • Incorporated logging functionality for self-hosted NeoDash deployments. #705
  • Improved dashboard management in standalone-mode deployments. #705
  • Added Docker parameter for overriding the app's logo & custom header. #705
  • Changed the dashboard 'save' action to a logical merge, rather than a delete + create, allowing to persist labels across saves. #705
  • Docker: Updated Alpine base image to mitigate CVE-2023-38039 & CVE-2023-4863. #705

NeoDash 2.4.0

NeoDash 2.4 is out! 🎂 This release packs a ton of new features, as well as improvements to the existing visualizations.

Key new features:

  • A new sidebar with support for managing, save and load multiple dashboards directly from the UI. #657
  • Added Forms as a new extension. Forms let you combine multiple parameter selectors in one card and have users edit/submit data to Neo4j. #568
  • Added a new advanced visualization type: Gantt charts. #684
  • Doubled the grid resolution for dashboards, giving you more freedom to arrange visualizations. #682
  • Several improvements for the natural language queries extension - including customizable prompting, and faster schema retrieval. #600

Other improvements:

  • Support for multiselect checkboxes as a report action for tables. #688
  • Added keyboard shortcuts (CMD/CTRL+Enter) for running Cypher queries from the editor. #694
  • Added new experimental graph layouts (trees in various directions), with customizable level distance. #690
  • Increased customizability for the Pie chart's styling. #638
  • Fixed issues with parameter selector: Better handling of integer / long parameters and processing external updates. #641
  • Improvements on text readability for the experimental dark mode. #668
  • UX improvements on database connection interface. #675
  • Added option to provide a custom message when no data is returned by a report. #683
  • Fixed issue where column names were not hidden correctly. #685

Thanks to all the contributors for this release: alfredorubin96, AleSim94, BennuFire, jacobbleakley-neo4j, hugorplobo, brahmprakashMishra, m-o-n-i-s-h, JonanOribe, nielsdejong

NeoDash 2.3.5

This is a bugfix / stability release directly following 2.3.4.

Improvements:

  • Fixed issue where orphan relationships prevented graph charts from working (@BennuFire, #586)
  • Fix issue where only one style rule was used a time on tables. (@BennuFire, #632)
  • Added information about source and target on Graph Chart information modal . (@BennuFire, #627) Based on @brahmprakashMishra PR
  • Fixed issue where bar charts where displaying black bars instead of scheme colors. (@BennuFire, #626)
  • Added right subpath replacement on shared links redirection while in self deployments. (@m-o-n-i-s-h, #618)
  • Dark theme tweaks. (@BennuFire, #585)
  • Fixed parameter selector search where numbers were not found and sporadically displayed with decimal points. (@BennuFire, #633)
  • Added a configuration in order to list sso providers to be used whenever a database has more than one configured. (@BennuFire, #624)
  • Added 'Ignore undefined parameters' advanced setting support for optional parameters on a query. Now queries will assume a null value instead of returning the error 'Parameter not defined'. (@BennuFire, #625)

NeoDash 2.3.3 & 2.3.4

This is a bugfix / stability release directly following 2.3.2.

Improvements:

  • Cleaned up dependencies, add lazy loading and code splitting in the bundle file for faster loading times. (@BennuFire, #545)
  • Migrated all icons from Material UI to Needle icons. (@BennuFire, #545)
  • Improved contrast for light and dark theme. (@nielsdejong, #545)
  • Fixed issue where dashboards were locked in read-only mode, after toggling in the dashboard settings. (@nielsdejong, #545)
  • Fixed issue where editing the name of a non-selected page changed the wrong page data. (@BennuFire, #545)
  • Fixed issue where color picker was only working on popup selections. (@BennuFire, #579)
  • Add user agent to driver session for better logging of NeoDash queries. (@nielsdejong, #545)

NeoDash 2.3.2

What's new in NeoDash 2.3.2? A few bug fixes, performance improvements and more important, it ships phase 2 of our migration to Needle !

NeoDash 2.3.1

What's new in NeoDash 2.3.1? A few bug fixes, improvement of natural language queries with support of Azure Open AI and parameters, Graph Vizualization relationship styling and more below!

  • Natural language queries

  • Graph Visualization

  • Table Chart

  • Report Actions

    • Fix on Style and Action modal that was preventing from setting params on low resolutions (@mariusconjeaud, #533)

  • Others

    • New setting for parameters selector to allow selection of multiple values instead of one + Fix multi selector on dates (@BennuFire, #535)
    • Fix bug where protocol was not set properly on share links (@nielsdejong, #521)
    • Update word-wrap from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (@BennuFire, #526 #527)

NeoDash 2.3.0

NeoDash 2.3 is out! This release brings a brand new look-and-feel, improved speed for large dashboards, and a new extension for querying Neo4j with natural language (using LLMs).

Key features:

Other changes:

  • Fixed issues with date picker / free-text parameter sometimes not initializing.
  • Improved documentation by fixing broken links, and adding more details around complex concepts.
  • Pro Extensions have evolved to open Expert Extensions.
  • Fixed issue where deep-linked parameters were not set from the URL.
  • Added option to specify absolute width for table columns (in pixels or as percentages).
  • Fixed map charts to auto-cluster markers when they collide, or are too close together.
  • ... and dozens of other improvements!

Contributors to this release:

NeoDash 2.2.5

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. #417
  • 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

NeoDash 2.2.4

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.

  • 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.

  • 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)

  • Single Value Chart

    • Added support for outputting dictionaries in YML format, and rendering new lines. (@nielsdejong, #315)

  • Choropleth Map

    • Added polygon information for missing countries: France, Kosovo, and others. (@BennuFire, #357)

  • 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)

  • Table Chart

    • Added support for customizing the seperator in csv exports. (@nielsdejong, #337)

  • 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)

NeoDash 2.2.3

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.

NeoDash 2.2.2

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.

NeoDash 2.2.1

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 standaloneDashboardURL into the application config.

NeoDash 2.2.0

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. (Expert 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.

NeoDash 2.1.10

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.

NeoDash 2.1.8 & 2.1.9

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.

NeoDash 2.1.6 & 2.1.7

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 npm to yarn, and bumped node version to 18. Cleaned up package.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.

NeoDash 2.1.5

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.

NeoDash 2.1.4

Added hotfix for missing function in map visualization (neo4j-labs#183).

NeoDash 2.1.3

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.

NeoDash 2.1.2

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.

NeoDash 2.1.0, NeoDash 2.1.1

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.

NeoDash 2.0.15

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.

NeoDash 2.0.14

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.

NeoDash 2.0.13

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.

NeoDash 2.0.12

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.

NeoDash 2.0.8 / 2.0.9 / 2.0.10 / 2.0.11

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.

NeoDash 2.0.7

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.

NeoDash 2.0.6

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.

NeoDash 2.0.5

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.

NeoDash 2.0.4

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.

NeoDash 2.0.3

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.

NeoDash 2.0.0, 2.0.1 & 2.0.2

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.