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July 2, 2022

New

March 3, 2022

New

February 18, 2022

New

  • The new Snapshot to PDF feature enables a user to snapshot the report into the print widget. Then it could save into PDF format.

October 26, 2021

New

  • The new Export to File feature enables a user to export a report to a PDF or a PowerPoint file. The feature exports all report tabs with the filters set as they were at the time the report was published.

July 24, 2021

New

  • The colour of the Binokula bar can be customised. The setting is on the ‘Administration / Portal Settings’ page.
  • The user ‘signed in as’ can be viewed by placing the mouse pointer under the Binokula logo at the bottom of the Binokula bar.

July 15, 2019

New

  • Dataset refresh history can now be viewed through the Admin Portal under "Portal Settings". Refresh history shows the last 10 refreshes.
  • Report ID can be passed as a parameter in the SSO redirect. This allows users to be directed straight to desired reports.

July 2, 2019

New

  • Admins can now enable certain users to share their view on reports via unique link. Reports still contain RLS and are shared securely.

Enhancements

  • Reports within Binokula no longer timeout after a period of time.

May 30, 2019

New

May 13, 2019

New

  • Binokula now supports multiple Power BI workspaces. Reports in located within different workspaces will now appear on Binokula. Workspaces will have to have your respective tenants admin account as a member of the workspace.

Enhancements

  • Admin reports are now embedded into the admin portal. Admins do not need to SSO into the admin tenant to view admin reports.

April 30, 2019

New

  • Admins can sort by columns in the User Management, Report Group, and User Group pages.
  • Search functions are now available in the Report Group and User Group pages.

Enhancements

  • All Admin checkbox forms have been replaced by tables with clickable actions beside them. This increases app performance and speed.

April 10, 2019

New

  • Color theme to match our all new brochure site at Binokula.com
  • Admins can now set their organization name through portal settings. Organization names will be used in automated emails sent out to users and other front facing features that labels your tenant.

Enhancements

  • Failed login attempts by a user is now limited to 5. After 5 failed attempts the user will be timed out for 30 minutes.

April 3, 2019

Enhancements

  • Reports that exist in your tenant but do not exist in your Power BI Workspace will be indicated on Admin Report Management.
  • User Activity Binokula API Endpoint now returns Report GUIDS on report_view.

March 8, 2019

New

  • Embedding Binokula generated reports into your own website. Developers can now embed Binokula generated reports into their own websites using the Power BI JavaScript API. The new Binokula API endpoints can provide developers with Report ID, Embedded URL and Embed Token in order to use the Power BI JavaScript API.
  • User Activity Binokula API Endpoint. Developers can retrieve Event Activity in our new Binoku#edit-user-namela API endpoint. This API can be filtered by user event and start/end time.
  • User Group Binokula API Endpoint. Developers can retrieve User Group information in our new Binokula API endpoint. This API can be filtered by user and/or user group.

February 19, 2019

New

December 20, 2018

New

  • User Groups. This feature allows admins to create groups of users then assign them to multiple report groups. This makes managing multiple users on what reports they can access easier. Refer to the Admin Guide for more details.
  • Timezone selection is now available for Admin Reporting purposes.

Enhancements

  • Reports that have their RLS configured incorrectly will display an error message on the report page when a user tries to access them.

October 29, 2018

New

  • Admins are now able to view their tenants admin secret in Portal Settings.
  • Admins can reset their Publisher account password under Portal Settings.

Enhancements

  • Improved security.

October 2, 2018

New

  • Admins now have the option of setting a maximum number of days a user can be inactive before their account is disabled. Admins are able to re-enable disabled accounts if desired. Default number of days before a user is disabled is 30 days.
  • We have now provided a demo page which contains demo users. This page allows anyone to try Binokula as sample users and see how each user views Binokula differently.
  • Admins can now test user accounts through SSO links. This allows admins to check what a users account can see or do when they login to Binokula.

Enhancements

  • Admin icons now display correctly on certain iPads.

September 11, 2018

New

  • Users can now be Enabled or Disabled in the User Management section. The next release will incorporate an auto-disable feature for inactive users for administrators that wish to use this feature.
  • The API also allows for the enabling or disabling of users.
  • Binokula Documentation is live and hosted on https://binokula.github.io. The release notes have also been moved to the documentation section.

Enhancements

  • SSO API has optional existingusersonly parameter added. This can be used to stop users from being auto-created.
  • The noreply password reset email domain has been changed to binokula.com.

August 13, 2018

New

  • Azure AD SSO Integration. If your company uses Azure AD, you should be able to authenticate automatically. We will continue to streamline this process as part of our next release
  • Mobile Paging Support. This release enables controls on the mobile view to jump across report pages.

Enhancements

  • Azure REDIS Failover Upgrade. As part of the 30 minutes outage (our first in over 3 months) we experienced on Azure REDIS last week, we have added redundancy and failover for Azure REDIS.

July 31, 2018

New

  • Binokula.app URL is live. Branding will begin to change to Binokula.app
  • First version of Mobile support is live! Feel free to create a mobile view for the first page of your report. Navigation controls are coming soon.
  • Home page supports tenant lookups. Enter your email address and you will be directed to your tenant automatically. Check it out by going to https://Binokula.app

Enhancements

  • Email with hyphens now supported as a valid email address.
  • Improved back-end monitoring and error notifications for our sysadmins. If an error occurs we'll know about it.

July 12, 2018

New

  • Release Notes published

Bug Fixes

  • Portal Auto Close Option fix for Edge V41

July 4, 2018

New

  • Portal Settings added to allow redirect or tab close on logout.

June 28, 2018

New

  • Admins can now request a password reset on behalf of a user.

Enhancements

  • Password reset workflow streamlined to complete the user's email and provide auto-logon.
  • Auto-show report and set to default if user can only access one report
  • Report Refresh button clears report cache and ensure all users see the latest list of reports available

June 19, 2018

New

  • Admin report is now accessible on open4bi.com/admin

Enhancements

  • Report refresh button is now green and more obvious

June 11, 2018

New

  • Breadcrumb added on top of the admin page
  • List Report Groups a report belongs to on Report page
  • Enable search for users in both Report Groups and User Management section

Enhancements

  • Add/Remove link now replaces checkbox for user on Report Groups

June 5, 2018

New

  • Report Groups added, allowing admins to specify which users can see which reports

May 23, 2018

New

  • Refresh report in app from Power BI
  • Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement added to logon page

Enhancements

  • Reset email now avoids most spam filters

May 1, 2018

New

  • Open4BI Officially Live