70 posts tagged with "new-feature"

Custom charts now live in AML. With this update, you can define them as code, create them through a GUI, and preview against real data:

• Define as code: Create a CustomChart block in a .chart.aml file. This lets you version-control your chart definitions in Git, validate their syntax, and protect them with dependency checks to prevent accidental deletion.
• Easy creation flow: Create a new chart in seconds with three simple starting points: chat with AI to generate it, pick a pre-made template, or build it from scratch.
• Preview while editing: As you write chart code, a preview panel renders the chart against real data. This lets you see and debug the output without leaving the editor.

⚠️ Legacy (non-as-code) custom charts in Admin Settings remain accessible for viewing, editing, and deletion, but new charts must be defined in AML. To migrate, use the Copy as code option in Admin settings > Custom charts.

Learn more: Custom charts | AML syntax reference

Color palettes can now be assigned at the theme level. With this update, you can:

• Apply color palette at theme level: Assign a palette to a theme so all charts on that dashboard use it automatically, eliminating the need for per-chart overrides. The palette also carries through to:
  • The theme thumbnails, so you can preview color palette before applying.
  • The explore modal, where charts inherit the dashboard theme's palette by default.
• Override at chart level: Individual charts can still set their own palette when needed.

Learn more: AML theme reference

Chart Suggestions is now live in Explore. Select your fields and instantly get up to 3 chart recommendations tailored to your data — apply any of them in one click, so you can stop thinking about chart setup and start thinking about your data.

This is part of a bigger push to make Explore faster for everyone. Auto-mapping already takes care of slot assignment. Chart Suggestions now tells you which chart to reach for. And we're not done yet — next up: switch between chart types without losing your field configuration. Stay tuned.

Give it a spin and let us know if the suggestions are hitting the mark!

Browse and insert reusable components directly in the Reporting dashboard editor - no need to switch to Development.

Previously, inserting library components required switching to Development, which added friction and blocked Explorers entirely. Now you can insert existing components right where you work - components built by one teammate are instantly available to everyone.

Learn more: Reusable components

AI Chat Insights gives admins visibility into what the user was trying to accomplish, how the AI responded, and where gaps in context affected the quality of the answer.

Read more in Learn from Conversations.

Color Palettes are now as-code, meaning you can define and manage your palettes directly within your AML workspace. Now you can:

• Define as code: Create palettes in palette.aml once and reference them anywhere, with full version control.

• Set a workspace-level default: Mark a palette in settings.aml so charts automatically use it by default, unless overridden at the theme or visualization level.

(*) Legacy palettes remain usable and deletable, but they can no longer be edited. To update a legacy palette, recreate it in AML.

Learn more: Color palettes | AML syntax reference

Previously, KPI styling had to be set widget by widget and had limited styling options.

🌟 What's new​

We're bringing KPI metric styling to the dashboard theme and supporting much richer styling options.

• Style once, apply everywhere: Configure in the dashboard theme, and changes will be applied to every KPI across the dashboard. Learn how to style with dashboard theme.

• More styling options: Customize alignment, label and value text, progress bars (text, indicator, track), and trend indicators per state (positive, negative, neutral). Learn how to customize your KPI metric.

Embed Events lets you control embedded Holistics dashboards from your application using JavaScript. Send commands, listen for user interactions, and keep your app and dashboard in sync — all through the browser's standard postMessage API.

Previously, embedded dashboards were one-directional — your app could configure the embed at load time but couldn't respond to user interactions or send commands afterwards. With Embed Events you can:

• Sync filters — push filter values from your app into the dashboard, or listen for user filter changes and reflect them in your app
• Navigate dashboards — build a custom tab switcher or menu that controls the iframe without a full reload
• React to errors — detect embed_error events and auto-refresh an expired JWT to keep the session alive

Learn more: App & Embed Communication

Embedded dashboards can now re-run automatically whenever filters or controls change, without clicking the Apply button. Use the new dashboard_autorun_on_changes setting in your JWT payload to enable this behavior across all dashboards in your embed portal.

How to enable​

Add dashboard_autorun_on_changes: true to the settings object in your JWT payload:

const payload = {
  object_name: 'your_portal',
  object_type: 'EmbedPortal',
  settings: {
    dashboard_autorun_on_changes: true,
  },
  exp: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 3600,
};

This overrides the dashboard's internal auto-run on changes setting. The default is false — dashboards continue to require clicking Apply unless you opt in.

Note: Auto-run fires a query on every filter change. For dashboards with many charts or heavy queries, leaving this off avoids unexpected query costs.

Learn more: Embed payload reference

Power BI to Holistics migration is now available. Holistics maps every core Power BI concept to its Holistics equivalent, and a new migration skill applies that mapping for you in a single command.

Here's how the concepts line up:

• Semantic models → datasets, with table relationships carried over (including role-playing relationships)
• DAX measures → AQL metrics
• Reports → Canvas Dashboards, filters and visuals included

Previously, switching from Power BI meant rebuilding all of that by hand, which is weeks of work that kept teams from making the move. Now you drop your .pbip export next to a Holistics project and run one command. The skill writes the models, translates the metrics, rebuilds the dashboards, validates parity against your original Power BI values, and syncs to Cloud. Weeks become hours.

Learn more: Migrating to Holistics from Power BI