PowerMetrics Changelog - 2020

Improvement:

• Better instant metric info: When selecting instant metrics, click the Information icon to see a metric definition, the formula used to create the metric, and a link to more information in MetricHQ.

Improvement:

• UI redesign for data sources and dashboards: Get easier access to Data Sources by clicking your Account Name (located at the bottom of the sidebar). We’ve also added an Insert menu to dashboards, where you can quickly add metrics, images, and text boxes to your dashboard.

Updates and Fixes:

• Calculated metrics: We fixed the issue where some calculated metrics were not responding to filter changes.

Updates and Fixes:

• Trendlines: We fixed the issue where, when editing display properties for a metric, trendlines were not available if segmentation was set to "None".

Improvement:

• Account connections: We’ve changed the naming convention for account connections to make them easier to identify. The default name now includes your first name, followed by GMT date and time, for example, Janet_Nov 12, 2020 4:15 PM (GMT). You can modify the default name if desired.

New:

On October 15th we launched a new experience for our Klipfolio PowerMetrics customers!

Now you can:

• Access even more instant metrics for a host of popular services, including Facebook, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Instagram, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Ads, QuickBooks Online, Twitter, and Xero (and we’re adding more all the time).
• Increase efficiency with our new account connection (OAuth token) management system for instant metrics. Only enter your credentials once. Reuse the connection as you add more instant metrics. Learn more here.
• Get even more than before from MetricHQ, including new dimensions and services. Go here to learn about MetricHQ.
• Manage your Klipfolio Account in our new Admin section (new customers only). Here you can manage users, groups, and roles, open Klipfolio products that you currently own or start a new trial. You can also open MetricHQ, a Klipfolio community that's all about metrics. Learn more here.
• Apply new, more flexible, roles and permissions to your account users. Learn more here.
• Improvements to the modeller, including recognizing numbers with comma separators.

Updates and Fixes:

• Data Sources: When modelling a data source, numbers with comma separators were not being recognized as numbers. This issue has been fixed.

Updates and Fixes:

• Calculated metrics: There were entries on the x-axis that displayed as “Invalid date” for some calculated metrics. This issue has been fixed.

New:

• Dashboards: Now available - Packed bubble charts! This new sub-type for our Tree Map visualization uses multiple bubble colours and sizes, making it easy to see hierarchical relationships in your data. Learn more here.

Updates and Fixes:

• OAuth connections: We fixed the issue where, when creating a new OAuth token, this error message falsely displayed: “Can’t connect across domains”.

New:

• Dashboards:
  • You can now display two Y-axes if your multi-metric visualization includes a mix of percentage and non-percentage values. Percentage values are assigned to one Y-axis and non-percentage values to the other Y-axis. This applies to line charts and clustered (non-stacked) bar and column charts.
  • Tooltips for line, stacked bar, and area charts now display all series values for an x-axis point together so you can more easily compare values for closely clustered data points.

Updates and Fixes:

• Google Ads connector: Customers were receiving an error and were unable to retrieve Google Ads customer IDs when configuring a data source. This issue has been fixed.

New:

• Dashboards: We’ve added 3 new chart types to metric dashboards - scatter, bubble, and combination visualizations are now available. 

Updates and Fixes:

• Multi-metric visualizations: We’ve made improvements to multi-metric visualization configuration. Learn more here.

Performance and quality enhancements

New:

• Modelled data sources: If the data format for a column in your raw data source changes, you are now notified and can easily apply the new format in the model.

New:

• OAuth connections: We’ve made it easier to differentiate between OAuth connection tokens in your account. When creating new OAuth connections, you can now modify the connection name. Learn more here.

Updates and Fixes:

• LinkedIn updated their data storage policy. In compliance with these changes, we’ve removed the option to set LinkedIn data sources to “never refresh”.

New:

• Connectors:
  • Shopify has replaced page-based pagination with cursor-based pagination and we’ve updated our connector to align with this change. You may need to update your Shopify queries.
• Metric visualizations:
  • If your metric visualization includes a legend, you can now choose where you want to display it - at the bottom or top of your chart or on either side. You can also choose not to display a legend.
  • We’ve added the ability to display values as labels in metric visualizations. Learn more here.

Updates and Fixes:

• Google Analytics queries are now returning the requested number of pages, as expected.
• You can now see and connect to your SharePoint subdirectory files.

Performance and quality enhancements

New:

• Dashboards:
  • The 3-dot menu for individual metrics on a dashboard now includes an Edit option. Selecting this option puts the dashboard into Edit mode and opens the properties panel with the chosen metric in focus.
  • To help Admins manage metric dashboards, they can now delete dashboards from the dashboard list page (accessed by clicking Dashboards in the left navigation sidebar).
• Connectors:
  • Our BigQuery connector now supports pagination, increasing the number of records you can retrieve with your query. Note that data source size limits may impact the number of records returned. Learn more about limits here.
  • Due to Shopify API updates, you may need to modify your existing queries to support cursor-based pagination.
  • Instagram has drastically reduced the amount of data that’s accessible through their basic API. We’ve unpublished our basic Instagram connector and recommend you use our Instagram Business connector instead. Learn more here.

Updates and Fixes:

• Brazil time zone settings have been updated and are operating as expected.

New:

• Modelling data sources: Result references are now supported in formulas when you model a data source.
• Dashboard and table options:
  • We’ve made it easier to edit metric dashboards. The new Edit/Properties panel is more easily accessed and changes focus as you select metrics on your dashboard.
  • There’s a new table subtype in PowerMetrics! Using the Ranked table, you can view the top values for a particular segment and choose to include a comparison column. Values will be listed in descending order. Learn more here.
  • We’ve added more options to the dashboard list page, where you can now click the 3-dot menu for an individual dashboard and choose to Share or Delete it.
  • Admins can now see all of the metric dashboards for the account when they select All in the dashboard list page (this page displays when you click Dashboards in the left navigation sidebar).

Updates and Fixes:

• We removed the Personalize option for customizing metric visualizations on a dashboard. Visualizations can still be configured by editing the dashboard.

 Updates and Fixes:

• Connectors:
  • The Twitter Ads connector has been updated to v 6.
  • The Bitly connector has been updated to v 4.

 Performance and quality enhancements

New:

• Klipfolio Apps Selector/Switcher: Access Klipfolio products and MetricHQ from our new product selector located at the bottom of the left navigation sidebar.
• Multi-metric visualizations: To add clarity for single metric charts that include multiple metrics, when you add one to a dashboard, its name includes the names of all of the metrics within it (in the order you added them and in the order in which they display). If desired, you can modify the name afterward to suit your data story.

Performance and quality enhancements

New:

• Dashboard organization, summary chart options, and multi-metric visualizations:
  • We’ve added a Dashboard library page so you can easily see all of your metric dashboards in one place. From this page, you can view information for each dashboard, open a dashboard, and add and delete dashboards. Learn more here.
  • We’ve added more data comparison options to Summary charts. Learn more here.
  • You can now add multiple metrics (up to 5) to individual visualizations on a dashboard.

Performance and quality enhancements

New:

• Sample dashboard and metrics:
  • You can now access our sample metrics and sample dashboard more quickly. Find them listed under PowerMetrics > Recent and Dashboards > Recent in the left navigation sidebar.