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title: 2024 Optimizely Analytics release notes
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## December 27, 2024

- **Rich text formatting in tables** – NetSpring now supports rich text formatting in tables and pivot tables.
- **Sparklines** – Create Sparklines and visualize trends across multiple measures with compact, inline charts and spot patterns, and gain insights at a glance.

## November 25, 2024

- **Enhanced Array Field Support** – Filter array fields using **contains** and **not contains** operators and group by array fields for deeper segmentation (Snowflake only).
- **Updated Home page** – Navigate Analytics faster with the redesigned Home page, unified listings, filtering, and sorting.
- **Add dashboard tiles to other dashboards** – Create inline beelines directly within an exploration and add each to a dashboard. Add existing dashboard tiles and new segmented explorations as tiles within a dashboard, and reuse and share insights seamlessly.
- **Fetching event and column metadata from Snowflake** – Fetch and auto-populate metadata such as descriptions for datasets, columns, and events from Snowflake.
- **Personal folders** – Organize work with personal folders automatically created for each user.

## October 22, 2024

- **Inline display of JSON results** – View JSON columns directly within the drop-down list selector in explorations, an improvement from the previous method, where JSON results opened in a separate window. Additionally, users can search for these columns using the search bar within the terminal selection, which will return all matching keys.
- **Rich text support for column, event, and dataset descriptions** – Import and display rich text descriptions for columns, datasets, and events from the data warehouse.

## September 12, 2024

- **SCIM provisioning** – Provision users and groups automatically with SCIM.
- **Count and percentage toggle in Funnels** – Toggle between absolute values and percentages in funnel visualizations.
- **Increased color coordination across explorations** – Maintain consistent colors across charts with improved legend color coordination.

## August 28, 2024

- **'Link all' controls in Dashboards** – Link or unlink all dashboard tiles simultaneously when setting filters or parameters.
- **Updated UX for easier setup** – Configure applications and connections with a sleeker, more intuitive UX.
- **Union dataset improvements** – Manage large union datasets more efficiently—update thousands of tables, edit metadata, and adjust column mappings in a streamlined modal. Auto-sync datasets with warehouse tables using schema watches that track changes and apply table filters.
- **Visual explorations deprecated** – Create custom explorations with the [Universal Exploration](#) template that has replaced Visual explorations.
- **All-new user onboarding experience** – Onboard faster with a checklist-based experience featuring guided tutorials.

## July 22, 2024

- **New dataset type: Column Actor** – Define actor datasets using a single column when no dimension table is available (Column Actor).
- **Full charting for SQL explorations** – Visualize SQL queries with [full charting capabilities](https://www.loom.com/share/41fdfb2293914593904ece38b7370eca?sid=eaf73f4d-82bc-4a07-b4cb-e5681784f66a).
- **Redesigned block editor** – Build and manage cohorts, metrics, and columns using the redesigned block editor.
- **New chart type: Pivot Table** – Use the new chart to view multi-dimensional table data.

## June 19, 2024

- **Increased CSV download limit** – Download CSVs with up to 1 million rows.
- **Rules and Alerts** – Set [rules](#) to monitor metrics and trigger alerts across teams and channels.
- **New Aggregate: Median** – Get an accurate measure of central tendency for various user and product metrics with the new [Median](https://www.loom.com/share/3aaf71ed23eb490b87379de991723a4f?sid=3f6e8211-aa4e-4e51-b147-e171f1e68fee) aggregator.

## May 24, 2024

- **Specify direct table paths in datasets** – Directly indicate a table path instead of navigating through connections in the source dataset picker.
- **New custom events creation workflow** – Create [custom events](https://www.loom.com/share/58193889d1b54b86a5de0ce3d056378a?sid=c5b8d31d-f076-44f7-99eb-6d7058fffa76) from the events page with a simpler, event-based selector.
- **Pasting comma-separated values** – Paste comma-separated values to filter large lists of values stored in spreadsheets easily.
- **JSON support in BigQuery** – Leverage full JSON support on BigQuery across the platform.
- **Drafts and Edits** – Save and share [drafts and edits](#) of Explorations with automatic cleanup after 30 days.
- **Improved shelf access** – Access blocks, catalog, and the parameters shelf more easily with the improved UI.
- **Distribution bins on 'time between stages' measure in Funnels** – Analyze funnel stage transitions using [custom time-based distribution bins](https://www.loom.com/share/0b9bbd4a561b46f58d18baf077b2c0e3?sid=175afc75-dbdc-4efc-85ee-ca12dd2cb3b9).

## April 25, 2024

- **Rich text tiles in dashboards** – Customize dashboard content with rich text tiles that let you customize headers, hyperlinks, text alignment, change text color, add lists, etc.
- **Beelines in event segmentation** – Use the [Show over time  and  Drill-down  beelines](#) to toggle between showing and aggregating results over time, and delve deeper into the displayed results for more detailed analysis.
- **Improved template editor** – Build explorations with the redesigned template editor for greater clarity and usability.
- **New exploration template: Universal Exploration** – Perform free-form analysis of data with the new [Universal Exploration](#) template – mix metrics, segment by cohorts, and compare periods.
- **Better stage names in funnels** – Display meaningful funnel stage names directly on the x-axis. By default, stage names in the chart now represent the events you have selected for that stage.

## March 11, 2024

- **Top 'N' segments in Funnel and Impact templates** – Set the number of top segments to display in Funnel and Impact templates.
- **Shortcuts to open features in a new tab** – Use Ctrl+Click if you are a Windows user, and Command+Click if you are a macOS user to open an exploration or any other feature in a new tab.
- **Multi-stage comparison in Funnel** – Compare performance between funnel stages using multi-stage comparisons. This feature is available for the **% converted between specific stages**, the **Time between specific stages**, and the **converted to specific stage** measures. When you select one of these measures, two new fields – **from** and **to** display, letting you choose the stages you want to compare.
- **Event taxonomy** – [Organize events in an event stream](#), allowing for a more efficient and streamlined experience and control which events to display in the event selector inside templates.
- **Collaboration** – [Collaborate](#) with teammates through comments and mentions in tiles and dashboards.
- **In-chart percentage toggle** – Switch between viewing absolute counts and percentages based on the values represented along the x-axis. This feature is accessible on bar charts and line charts.

## February 8, 2024

- **Infinite beelines** – Generate infinite beeline tiles with automatic scroll.[​ ](https://app.netspring.io/documentation/docs/Release%20notes/version_118#infinite-beelines)Beelines are no longer created inline and do not have undo/redo buttons to go through them.
- **New chart loaders** – Visualize loading status with new chart-specific loaders.
- **Behavioural cohort redesign** – Use redesigned Behavioral Cohort UX for better event and terminal selection. The updates are as follows:
  - Search is possible through all the available lists.
  - Users can collapse and expand all headers, select all, or clear the selection.
  - You will see the **selected** category at the top when an element is selected.
- **New NetScript functions** – Use new NetScript functions: `regexp_count`, `regexp_replace`, and `strlen` in your analysis.
- **New chart type in Retention** – Analyze retention trends with the new **Breakdown Chart**.
- **Chart enhancements: Zoom** – Zoom into specific chart regions and reset with a click.
- **Searchable dashboard tiles** – Search dashboard tiles by typing in tile names or keywords.
- **Updated app permissions** – Grant default write permissions to all users when creating apps.
- **Account management section** – Manage account usage using parameters like seat usage, number of applications, number of explorations, and dashboards created.
- **Folder nesting** – Move folders into other folders to streamline organization.
- **Chart highlights** – Highlight charts during hover to improve visual focus.