Release Notes

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Release Notes

2018

January 2018

• • Usage report

    • Add graphical usage display by month

    • Add graphical usage display by day for the current month

  • Fix Iframe embedding code rare loading issue

2017

December 2017

• • Improve view search in the Awesome Table view listing

  • Fix user login process

  • Gantt: add keywords for more flexibility

    • GanttGroup

    • GanttLabel

    • GanttStartDate

    • GanttEndDate

  • User report dashboards: allow to consult Awesome Table usage

November 2017

• • SlideShow: new SlideContent keyword to insert HTML template in the slides

  • Advanced Summary: fix BIAggregate keyword when used in the first displayed column

  • Gantt: add option to group rows by label

October 2017

• • Improved error messages to help resolving settings or connection issue

  • New tool menu with actions to:

    • Clear all filters

    • Open the view with current filters settings set in the URL

    • Print the view

    • Download the data as Comma Separated Values (if checked in the view's settings)

  • Fix Table pagination arrows on Safari and IE11

  • Use spreadsheets from a Team Drive

  • Cards view: it does not load all cards at once anymore

September 2017

• • New print page: exemple

  • Add ?debug parameter to the page URL to help diagnose connection issue

  • Upgrade Awesome-Table.com to Polymer 2

• • Fix issues with old Chrome versions

August 2017

• • First version of usage reports for domains

  • Allow 'hot-reloading' an Awesome Table

July 2017

• • Update and speed up the Advanced Summary view

  • Allow flexible filter and chart layout: filters can be on the left side of the view

  • Improve csvFilter and categoryFilter

    • now sorts numerical values (1, 10) correctly

    • Show number of results for each items

June 2017

• • New Print function

  • New view type: SlideShow

May 2017

• • Improved data loading and cache mechanism

  • Rate the Awesome Table Marketplace app !

  • Fix issues on IE11 (yet)

  • Prepare for Polymer 2.0 (hybrid mode)

April 2017

• • Use a picker in Classic Google Site for the Awesome Table gadget configuration

  • New in-view Column type keyword:

    • IconType: Display icons from https://material.io/icons

    • ButtonType: Display buttons with specified color

March 2017

• • Introducing the Template gallery to easily create new views

  • New documentation: https://support.awesome-table.com

  • New in-view Column type keyword:

    • ImageType: Specify that this column hold images URL and automatically insert image's preview

    • HyperlinkType: Insert a link on a text column

February 2017

• • New home page on https://awesome-table.com with an optimized view's list

  • New Awesome-Table API

  • Fix rare issue on the cache

January 2017

• • BI view

    • Allows non ASCII chars in the word cloud

    • Increase word size difference

  • Fix to increase view compatibility for IE11 and Firefox <45

2016

- Year in review

December 2016

• • Added cache on every views (new Dataflow).

  • Use Google Drive picker to select the source spreadsheet.

  • Changed Maps view to scroll only on focus.

November 2016

• • Fixes on the new site.

  • Fixes on the Spreadsheet authentication flow.

  • Fix dates display in the csvFilter and CategoryFilter.

October 2016

• • New major Awesome-Table.com version (v3):

    • • built with Polymer.

• • • Use web components.

    • Provide a fully responsive website for mobile.

• • Big fixes and adaptation to the new Spreadsheet authentication flow:

    • it now correctly uses multi-account browsing sessions.

    • Quicker logging.

September 2016

• • Fixed internal issues

August 2016

• • Publication in the Google Apps Marketplace

  • New authentication flow to adapt for Google Spreadsheet change in security behavior

  • Fix legacy Google Site behavior (auto-replace space by a '+' in HTML links) in preset filters:

  • use &#32; to replace a space (e.g.: &filterB=some&#32;fruits ).

  • Fix DateFilter issues with data containing strings

June 2016

• • Awesome Table is now available in the new version of Google Sites

  • Fix issue with Direct row link when there is no filter.

  • Fix Geochart HTML tooltip.

May 2016

• • New Awesome Table logo !

• • Use Google Visualization static loader for a better control on versions

  • Visuals fixes (Table view) to compensate for new Google Visualization version

April 2016

• • New button to easily use a template (Using an Awesome Table template has never been easier!)

  • Added CardsContent keyword: set the column used as Cards view display

  • General visual fixes.

  • Uniformization of CategoryFilter and csvFilter

March 2016

• • View's owner can now transfer ownership to an editor.

  • Improved error detection when user accessing the Awesome Table does not have the spreadsheet access: it immediately displays the error screen.

  • Fixed error screen.

  • Fixed issue with csvFilter

February 2016

• • New Awesome-Table.com design

    • More user-friendly

    • Use Material design Lite

    • Better presentation of stand-alone Awesome Table view

  • Clearer behavior when a copy of a view is made from the Awesome Table Gadget

  • General loading time improvement

  • The Awesome Table Terms of Service are available here

January 2016

• • Fixes on the numberRangeFilter and dateFilter

    • restored pre-set filter URL link

  • Improved the Error message when a view is broken, giving more informations and help

  • Fixes on the Cards view

    • In some case, an error message appeared without any effect

2015

December 2015

• • Complete re-writing of the dateFilter

    • touch friendly

    • more display formats for the dates

• • Complete re-writing of the numberRangeFilter

    • touch friendly

    • enable direct input

    • enable decimal entry

    • don't filter out non-numeric entry by default

November 2015

• • Complete re-writing of the csvFilter

    • now it's a native filter

    • suppression of all of the previous issues

  • Awesome-Table.com

    • many improvement of the user experience

    • added possibility to copy a view

  • Geochart view

    • changed the tooltip display to appear on click

October 2015

• • New major version of Awesome Table

    • view sharing

    • view suppression

    • edit button on the site view page

    • import existing gadget view into Awesome-Table.com

    • Gadget configuration view updated

    • Gadget authentication on Awesome-Table.com

  • BI view

    • fixes for the tables, they now use the correct width

July 2015

• • Complete re-writing of the cards view

    • Responsive design as major keywords

    • Use of the flex-box instead of tables

    • Native integration with the Google Visualization API

  • Bugs fixes

    • Auto re-sizing on images loading

    • Templates now can be applied on a numeric column

Mai 2015

• • Launch of awesome-table.com : a dedicated website to easily configure Awesome Table views.

  • Evolution of the template

    • <style> : allow direct CSS insertion from the spreadsheet

    • <script> : allow direct JavaScript insertion from the spreadsheet

    • global (no header) : allow direct HTML insertion as first body child from the spreadsheet

  • Quick loading of public spreadsheet (avoid redirection)

April 2015

• • Bug fixes

    • Row direct link (q=&c=)

      • this parameter now uses decodeURIComponent()

      • added support for Map view and combined Map&Table view

    • Cards view & csvFilter : page browsing fixed

    • Map view & csvFilter : filtering now works as intended

    • csvFilter : Now use an exact match ('sales' doesn't match 'sales department')

  • Correction of the Gantt view dynamic re-sizing

  • Custom Error message

February 2015

• • Bugs fixes to match Google Visualization API v41

  • Simplification of the custom CSS file

  • Added an auto-sizing on window.onresize event

January 2015

• • Added a new Maps view with marker clustering ability, more than 400 markers can now be displayed. This feature was sponsored by Holcim

  • New option to display simultaneously a maps view and a table

  • Improved settings view, with the new ability to place the filters, chart and map like you want

  • Bug fixes

    • the Gantt view is now re-sized dynamically

    • the sort setting behave now like intended, and is retained when filtering and page changes

    • cvsFilter can now be used without adding another filter

2014

December 2014

• • Ability to create direct links to filtered views (demo)

• Improvements on BI view (2x faster)

  • A Google+ community has been created, where people can discuss new features and help each others. Many thanks to Christophe Bichon.

• Feature requests can be raised on UserVoice

• Bug fixes

October 2014

• • Templates lets you easily create beautiful visualizations of your data (blogpost) that load very fast.

  • Better rendering on mobile devices

June 2014

• • New design for the standard table view, more consistent with design of Google Apps products

May 2014

• StringFilter, CategoryFilter and csvFilter are now prettier if you use the keyword "insideFilter" as caption.

• • Improvements on BI view (2x faster)

March 2014

• • Row-level permissions through a Google Apps Script "proxy" (documentation)

February 2014

• • New view available: GeoChart view (demo)

  • Awesome Table is compatible with the new version of Google Sheet

January 2014

• • Settings in Awesome Table are now available in 13 languages (English, French, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Español, Portuguese(Brazil), Dutch (Nederlands), Norwegian, हिन्दी, Deutsch (German), Japanese (日本語) & Czech (čeština))

  • Awesome Table is promoted by Google and can be found in the featured section of the Google Sites gadget gallery

  • Edit entries displayed with Awesome Table through Google Form (demo)

2013

December 2013

• • New view available: Cards view (demo)

  • The settings page is now way more user-friendly, with a Bootstrap UI.

November 2013

• • New view available: BI view / Advanced "Summary of responses" for Google Forms (demo)

  • Word Clouds added in BI view

• New filter available: csvFilter

September 2013

• • New view available: Gantt chart view (demo)

  • Ability to use your own CSS file to change the look of your Awesome Table view (demo)

  • Ability to create direct links to specific results (eg. if you're using the gadget to create a people directory you can build urls to quickly access each profile)

June 2013

• • New view available: Google Maps view (demo + video tutorial)

May 2013

• • Dependent category filters are now available (eg: a list of countries and a list of cities. When you select a specific country, only the related cities are displayed in the dependent filter).

April 2013

• • New view available: Sidebar view (example with a People directory)

  • Added a connector to Google Analytics to track clicks on an Awesome Table view (eg you display a list of links, you can track the number of clicks on each link - see tutorial on steegle.com)

March 2013

• • Columns of the spreadsheet can be hidden from view using the "Hidden" keyword.

February 2013

• • Added ability to download data displayed in Awesome Table as csv.

  • A documentation for Awesome Table is available, first draft courtesy of Solvay.

January 2013

• New filter available: DateFilter

  • People can use an Apps Script code in combination with Awesome Table to display a list of files from Google Drive with metadata (see video tutorial)

2012

November 2012

• • Ability to use specific queries to display only a subset of the data in a Google Sheet using the Google Visualization API Query Language.

February 2012

• First release + video tutorial