What's New

Features

• Footnotes & Variables: Added support for HTML inline markup within footnotes, allowing for richer formatting.
• Unified Legends in Other Map Types: Added unified legends across additional map types beyond the US map.
• Forecast/Combo Charts: Now renders blank space or suppresses display for text values marked as "NA" in data.
• Y-Axis Label Improvements: Enhanced y-axis labeling for better clarity and customization.
• Markup Includes & Dynamic Footnotes: Inline markup from data files is now respected, including line breaks and commas in text.
• Filter reset update: Introduced a "Reset" functionality to drop-down submit buttons for easier user interaction.
• Custom Colors: Improved the process for adding new colors in sequence within arrays and enabled manual entry for more than four entries.
• Decimal Places Option: Created the option for decimal places from the data to be respected. i.e. whole numbers remain and decimals of various lengths for data accuracy.
• Chart and Dashboard Performance: General performance improvements for charts and dashboards.
• Small Multiples Feature: Added support for small multiples, allowing users to display multiple similar charts side by side for comparison.
• Multi-country Maps: Introduced support for maps displaying highlighted data for selected multiple countries.
• Panel Settings: Various improvements panel settings.
  

508 and Bug Fixes

• Line Breaks in Data Table: Resolved issues with line breaks not displaying correctly in data tables.
• Pie Chart Creation: Fixed a bug where pie charts could not be created due to y-axis issues.
• Hex Map Arrow Indication: Addressed blank conditional columns for hex map arrow indications.
• Forecast Chart Issue: Fixed issues affecting forecast chart rendering.
• Area Chart Offset: Corrected axis offset problems in area charts within combo charts.
• Box Plot Sample Data: Fixed errors in the sample data set for box plots in the editor.
• Exclude Columns on Dashboards: Restored functionality for excluding columns on dashboards.
• Data Filters in Dashboard Editor: Fixed issues with data filters causing dashboard editor to short.
• Horizontal Bar Charts: Resolved missing value axis label in horizontal bar charts.
• Dashboard Filter Bug: Fixed a bug affecting dashboard filters.
• Forecast Chart Axis Option: Removed the non-functional option to set the date/categorical axis to "Categorical" in forecast charts.
• Global Filters: Fixed an issue where "Clear Filters" did not clear all sections in global filters.
• NCCDPHP Maps Performance: Improved update and load times for NCCDPHP maps.
• Data Table Title: Fixed an issue where changes to data table titles would revert after saving.
• Advanced Editor Options for Data Bites: Restored advanced editor options for data bites.
• Dashboard Toggle Accessibility: Fixed a 508 accessibility issue with aria label duplication in dashboard toggles.
• Visual Options Alignment: Corrected misalignment in visual options.
• Download Image Naming: Improved naming conventions for downloaded images.
• WCAG Pattern Settings: Fixed false WCAG pattern settings in bar charts.
  

Features

• DEV-11242: All Visualizations - Color Palette Improvements
  Added the new color palettes for all visualizations, including new Hex codes. Does not impact currently published visualizations. Newly created or manually updated visualizations will receive new palette options. You can preview the new colors on any visualization. Do not save the color changes if you don't want them to take effect on your current visualizations. We encourage you to update all visualizations to the new colors as soon as possible.
• DEV-11420: Add default values to nested dropdowns and show selected item
  Nested dropdowns now support a "default value" option in the editor that correctly displays the selected item, not just the first item in the group.
• DEV-11414: Single State Map - Unable to set a no data state
  Single state maps now display a customizable "No State Selected" message when no data is provided or when an unknown state mapping is encountered.
• DEV-11390: Maps - Geo locations hide with Legend "hide" Interaction
  When hiding data series via the map legend, the hover targets are now also removed, preventing unwanted cursor interactions.
• DEV-11293: Standalone package builds
  COVE packages distributed over NPM can now be built as standalone packages, with necessary codebase changes implemented.
• DEV-11292: Added variations for Northern Marianas
  Tooltip text updated from "Northern Marianas" to "Northern Mariana Islands", with additional supported variations such as "Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands".
• DEV-11264: Add patterns to bar charts
  Patterns, similar to those used in maps, can now be added to bar charts. The editor UI is consistent with map pattern selection.
• DEV-11243: Maps - Mini Map Refactor in Preparation for Color Changes
  Refactored mini map code in preparation for color palette changes.
• DEV-11236: Improve Editor Performance for County Maps (US and Single State with Selector)
  Improved performance for US and Single State County maps in the editor, making them faster to build and configure.
• DEV-10133: Show Patterns in Data Table Circles
  Patterns used on maps now also display in the data table circles by state, improving visual consistency.
  

508 and Bug Fixes

• DEV-11641: Dashboard Toggle: 508 issue with SVG missing role
  The following accessibility issue was discovered in the axeDevTool: SVG elements in dashboard toggles are missing a role attribute. This issue is visible on dashboards such as those with toggles.
• DEV-11506: Multi-viz is not pivoting properly
  The multi-viz pivot feature is now sorting categories correctly in tables, charts, and maps. Footnotes are sorting properly. Affected dashboards now sort the displayed data for each category.
• DEV-11392: Map Legend "hides" the dots for the geo locations, but does not remove the hover states for each.
  When the map legend hides geo location dots, the hover states no longer remain active.
• DEV-11369: Always load from URL button is spinning config panels
  On new dashboards, if the "always load from URL" checkbox is checked, the configuration panel no longer spins indefinitely. This only affected dashboards, not other visualization types.
• DEV-11296: Suppression symbols on bar chart are very large with wide bars
  Suppression symbols on bar charts now resizing properly with wide bars. This update ensures suppression symbols scale appropriately.
• DEV-11281: Data Bite Filter Doesn't Apply on Load
  Dashboard filters can now be applied on initial page load, resulting in one output instead of multiple.
• DEV-11166: When "Display Suppressed Data Label" is UNCHECKED, original data shows in tooltip
  When suppressed data labels are hidden, the original value was still visible in the tooltip, potentially exposing sensitive data. This is now fixed.
• DEV-11076: Map Filters - Clear Map Filters and Reset Map filters aren't behaving correctly
  The "Clear Filters" and "Reset Filters" buttons on Bubble Maps now function as intended.
• DEV-10995: "Show in Tooltip" for Forecast CIs does not work
  Confidence intervals (CIs) now show in the forecast chart tooltip when enabled from the Data Series panel.
• DEV-10481: Legend Style Editor vs Page
  The legend title bolding now displays in the editor, as it appears on the published page. The editor now matches the published view.
  

Features

• Added visual padding to the "Download Image" output.
• Multi-state choropleth maps are now selectable for the single state map
• Added control option to collapse long data tables from the bottom
• Multi-dashboard charts no longer flicker when selecting between tabs
• Support added for "No Data" Message for Blank Markup Variables
• Bar chart labels (Special Classes) improved
• COVE Metrics Implementation
• Columns Data Label field now respects case entered and no longer force Title Case.

Fixes

• Date Overlap on Brush Slider
• Brush Slider on Area Charts no longer corrupts chart
• Visualization level table name and link to CSV now works
• Multi-viz footnotes are now respecting sorting selections
• Multi-viz is now pivoting Data Tables properly

Features

• Horizontal Box Plots
• Display Numbers on *Horizontal* Bar with CIs cutting through number
• Importing Vega configs
• Add support for ^{and _{inline HTML for additional text areas}}

508 and Bug Fixes

• Table Cell Min Width Issues
• Special Class Error on Cat Maps
• Box Plot Display Issues
• Data Table Toggle - Mobile Issue
• Area chart and forecast chart - display is offset left on the date/category axis
• Focus Indicators are different from WCMS/TP
• Special Classes are not applying to maps
• Custom Events: "cove_loaded" event happening before national map is rendered
• Single State: Data Override Not working
• Legends - Bin numbers repeat when "Separate Zero" option checked
• Legend - Exact decimals ignored for start/end bins
• Legends - Colors - Bin colors off when special class is moved to the end
• Legends - Bin legend toggles the wrong color when special class is moved to the end
• Hovers Not Working on Multiple-series Bar Chart
• Multi-viz is not sorting out properly
• Combo Chart Crashes with Bottom Legend
• Color Issue in Forecast Charts

Features

• sankey: number formatting in data table & diagram
• Enhancement to Dynamic Footnotes by Filter
• Support sup and sub tags in data table headers
• Stand Alone Data Table Package
• Update Core Dependencies
• Update Data Bite Dependencies
• Update Editor Dependencies
• Update Filtered Text Dependencies
• Update Map Dependencies
• Update Markup Include Dependencies
• Update Waffle Chart Dependencies
• Vertical and Horizontal Hover Lines for Scatter Plots
• Sort Visual Rendering
• Add 4-month and 6-month tick spacing
• Pie Chart - New Function - Build from provided Percentage and not calculated from data set

508 and Bug Fixes

• New Bolding/Outlines Around Visual Selection Elements
• Upgrade Classes for TP5
• Apply Button Jumps Chart off Axis
• Grey backgrounds on dropdowns on mobile
• Data Table Causing County Maps to Load Slowly
• Show Hover for Single Data Series is not working for stand-alone Horizontal Stacked Bar
• Line chart clickable legend unselect does not work as expected
• Tooltips stop working if Dynamic Category is removed
• Fix cut-off tooltips on small screens
• MultiSelect: Default to first option when all items are removed
• Investigate prepareData side effect in chart package
• Bar chart tooltips for N/A bars are rendered incorrectly
• Tooltip Hovers IN EDITOR (helper text for the fields) are not triggering
• Apply button not working on filters
• Multi-viz is not sorting out properly
• Single Series Tooltip not working for Vertical Bar Chart - Multimetric, not stacked
• Dashboard issue
• Hover Lines Won't Go Away and Are Lagging
• Custom Colors with Missing Data - Maps
• Maps - Single Row Legends for maps is not working

Features

• Dynamic Data Series to render the Legend in CSV order
• Suppressed Data Popover: Update style
• Dynamic Legend
• UTF-8/unicode character display in CSV download output
• Area Charts: Remove option for standard (overlapped) charts
• File extensions being set by returned response from originating server
• Labeled Subgroups in Legends - Maps
• Hide Title - Linear Gauge
• Widgets having datasets when in a Row with a dataset causing config issues
• Unable to determine the Dashboard row number without counting
• Map Refactor: Helper Functions
• Map Refactor: Reduce Use Effects
• Map Refactor: Data Fetching Layer
• Map Refactor: Implement Reducer
• API sourced Dashboard Filters' Editor difficult to work with
• Dashboard: Load Query Param
• Add Table Cell Min Width to Maps
• Map UX: Update fonts and spacing outside map
• Map UX: Update fonts and spacing within map
• Map UX: Update New England label placements
• Map UX: Update patterns
• Map UX: Update territories
• Line chart tooltip enhancement
• Update Chart Dependencies
• Dashboard: Dataset override
• Create option to separate specified linear block gradient legend items

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• Bar Chart with Brush Slider Spills Over Container in Date/Time Scale
• Bars with borders are showing a line on the bottom of the chart when values are null
• Geocode Maps have incorrect defaults
• Download image button cutting off visualizations
• Dynamic Data Series Suppression
• Sparklines have too much padding on the right
• Table text overrunning the column edge in Data Table
• Bar chart tooltip shows blank when "null" expected?
• US Regional Map Legend Issues
• Data value dots on dynamic series line charts - sizes vary for isolated points
• Data Table: Add order column configuration
• Dashboard Footnotes: Filters not applying to footnotes
• Fix missing X-Axis on some charts with manual ticks
• Tooltip doesn't show on Horizontal Bar Chart
• Territories are not showing on maps
• Data Table URLs not working
• Close icon not showing on older IOS
• Navigation Map Bugs/Improvements
• Horizontal Bar Chart label offset toggling negative
• Inputs and Multiselects triggered outside of text box area
• Migrate maps general settings for tables

Features

• Labeled Subgroups in Legends - Charts
• Unable to hide title on data bite
• Support Subscript and Superscript in Legends
• Improve COVE cache busting (Coming 3/28)
• Reduce bundle size for JSON Files
• Force Casing for Locations like “U.s. Virgin Islands”
• Explicitly Set Filter Value - Stand Alone Maps & Charts
• Dynamic Legend
• Data Source Title: move edit name input box to edit section
• CSV Download Updates

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• Markup Include Titles Not Visible in Filter Settings
• Scatter Plot X Axis Rounding Down
• Date/Category axis: cannot exclude dates (missing fields)
• City Shape Comparative Size
• 508 - Appending the name to the end of the line chart puts the text behind a right-hand legend
• Area Charts in Combo Charts Not Displaying Properly
• Charts request data files twice
• GTSS Explore by Indicator - Parent filters are not saving
• Bug-Vertical Bar Chart Date/Category Axis Tick Rotation
• Change Help Button on Editor
• Apply Custom Sort Before Selecting Default on Dashboard Filters
• Bump Charts Missing Date Parse Fields
• City color always active when other area highlighted
• Legend Style Editor vs Page
• Reduce Padding of new tabs on mobile maps
• Respect y-axis min/max when using automatic padding
• CIs on Bar Charts Overlap Numbers
• Quitline will not save data settings or new data files uploaded
• Tooltip: Additional Column not showing
• Unused Dashboard Filters Not Deleting
• Data Table Pivot Columns: Rounding not applying
• Pie Chart / Sparkline Issues – Titling and Data Selection Issue Fix
• Data value dots on dynamic series line charts - sizes varyCity Shape

Features

• Charts Refactor: Implement reducer
• Dashboard Filters - Parent
• Explicitly Set Default Value for Filters
• Make pill/tab filters persist on mobile
• Right-align numeric columns

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• ADHAP Issue with Default Set By Query Param is missing SubCategory selector
• ADHAP Issue with query string parameters
• API Error Handling: Repeated Notices
• Bar chart Tooltip issues: Displaying same values on vertical, none on horizontal
• Blank Column Name or Series Name Displays Colon in Hover
• Brush slider -- too close to subtext
• Brush Slider Malfunction for Long Years
• Brush slider not persistent
• Convert to bar option not working for dynamic series line chart
• Dashboard Filter Ordering
• Data Column Name Missing on Maps
• Date/Time Scale Overlapping Bars
• Deviation Label On the Bar
• Dynamic Data Series: Tall Data issues with first value being null
• Dynamic Series Legends Can't be Isolated
• Filters aren't applying on multiviz elements
• Group By column doesn't allow column order, even if I set such up in the API.
• IndexOf error when using Dashboard Filters
• Message is misaligned in the editor for charts
• Nested Dropdown - Arrow isn't clickable & scrollbar doesn't work
• No Data Points in All Available Years Chart
• Pie Chart Filters Stacking instead of line
• Query string parameter not working with more than one item in the first row of filters
• Show All Territories Not Working
• Table styling spacing issues
• Undefined Hovers
• Viewport Overrides Not Working on Combo Charts

Features

• Hovers / Tooltip Standardization: Box Plot
• Updates to labels for territories and freely associated states
• Symbol line charts
• Dashboard Tiles to Display Names
• Charts Refactor: New Data Fetching Layer
• Chart refactor: Reduce use effects
• Charts refactor: Helper functions
• Improve the Anchor functionality for charts: Displays different in Editor than on DFE page
• Update Spacing
• Update Font Families & Sizing
• Restrict Axis Labels
• Legend Updates
• Mobile Considerations / Updates
• New Cities
• Map Navigation Links Open in Same Tab
• Enhancement: Sort date data newest to oldest

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• COVE: Charts Bottom Legend - Reverse Labels not working
• Scatter plot: downloaded image has issues
• 508 - Bar charts with no labels or borders fail non-text contrast
• Custom Ordering Shorts Editor on Maps
• New widget can't be add to a visualization box after an old widget is deleted
• Box Plot: Table Issues
• Data Configuration Fix Did Not Carry Through to Dashboards
• Long On-Click Hovers World Map are Misaligned and Cutting Off
• Update State Sample Data: Delaware
• Color contrast issue in horizontal bar charts
• Styling issue with ‘Download Image’ button for maps
• County maps need border color updated
• Pie chart: Hover showing wrong decimals
• Issue opening second dashboard when have multiple dashboards
• WCMS Stylesheet
• Dashboard Heading Margin
• Cessation dashboard not loading modules correctly
• Parent Filters with Apply Button
• Nested Filters with Apply Button
• Horizontal Bar Chart Date/Time Error
• Space Missing Between Yes and No Buttons on Data Upload
• Reverse Legend Labels - Right and Left
• Superscript No Longer Functions on Super Title
• Show Hover for Single Series Not Clickable
• Always Load from URL causing time out or circular call
• Turn off "Display Label on Data" by default
• Line Style Settings Not Holding
• Legend Title No Longer Stylistically Different
• Pill and Tab Filters are doing a weird wrapping
• Isolate Value No Longer Works
• Filter Isolation Shorts Map
• Region Map Doesn't Render
• Nested Dropdown is not displaying correct option on Filter change
• Year filter not changing when selected
• BRFSS: Map breaks Data Viz and Horizontal Bar Chart doesn't show bars
• Viz Filter Order by column breaking when column data is number.
• Black circle shows for N/A (or not available) on All Available Years

Features

• Visualization Filters: Order Filter options by Specified Column

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• Nested Dropdown filter availability- maps
• Dashboard: Filters saving default active value
• Visualization Filters don't filter map correctly
• Visualization Filters don't accept parent filters
• Active Filter Selection Display

Features

• Brush Filter Functionality
• Brush Slider Issues with Forced Date
• Display decimal points on pie charts
• bar chart as epi graph -- optimization
• Add loading states to drop-downs
• Data Reset Scenario
• World Map, No Data Scenario
• Multi-series Box Plot
• Dashboard Reset Label: When present in the data set shouldn't appear twice
• Stacked Area Chart: Left Axis Min Value default
• Add feature to query parameter which tells app to send data request on load
• Update Maps Gray colors and dark border color
• Confidence Intervals for Line Charts in Mult-Dashboards
• Horizontal Bar Chart Dynamic Data Series
• Confidence Intervals for Multiple Data Series (Bar Chart)
• Label latest tick for date (linear scale) bar charts
• Make filter intro text custom
• Improve mobile data table font sizes
• Improve spacing between map elements
• Improve map territory labels
• Multi-series Box Plot: Data Table Updates
• Always show last month on date-time linear chart
• Decrease Amount of White Space Under New Filter Description
  

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• sankey: text display issues
• Scatter plot data table: options for Date / Category Axis not working
• Bar/line charts -- Data Table Display Format doesn't work
• Bar with Data Time Scale -- can't exclude values on date axis
• Lollipop bar style doesn't work with negative numbers
• Horizontal Axis Label Overlapping
• Right Side Legend Defaults
• Default Legend Box for Maps: Change to off for Top and Bottom
• Hidden Filter helper text is showing again
• Multi-Dashboard: Tab Styling
• Cursor on square legends does not change shape
• Patterns missing for territories and freely associated states
• Dashboard Filters - Nested
• No data for territories, freely associated states, and cities show as black
• Hex Maps > DC not showing
• Duplicate dropdown label in dashboard
• Y-Axis Issues on Multiple Data Series Bar Charts w/ CIs
• Y-Axis not responding to max value for line chart
• Unable to disable series highlight in bar chart
• Categorical Axis: Scale is different than the chart
• Custom Color Map Distributions
• Line chart values don't display unless you switch to Bar chart
• Nested Dropdown: cannot add Category to API filter
• Dashboard Filter: 'Used By' Rows assignment issue
• Dashboard: long page load time when no Apply Button.
• Dashboard: Filter Row association not applying query params to requests
• MMRIA issues
• Apply button can be clicked with empty filters
• Automatic Pattern Contrast is not setting for Territories
• Dashboard Filter Used By Label is Missing
• Filter Apply Button Not Functioning
• X-Axis Last tick overflows
• Data is saved in Footnotes
• Brush slider -- start / end dates don't correlate to chart
• Footnotes are showing in Data Reset Scenario
• Dashboard Filter Autoloading Issues
• Parent Filter section labeled incorrectly
• Cessation Issue: Footnotes need to show below Map
• dataURL issue in dashboards
• Multidashboard check is causing an error
• County Map Borders Change Width
• Categorical Map Patterns - Multi-word
• Data Table Display

Features

• Date Support: Option for Reverse Chronological order
• Add the ability to set a min/max value for Scatter Plots.
• Box Plot logic and Labeling improved.
• Alternate to Dynamic Data Series
• COVE Styling – Dropdowns
• Dashboard Markup Include – Now show/hide based on null values
• Text notifying user when API Data call didn't work "There was a problem returning data. Please try again."
• "No Data" Table message when filter selection generates a scenario with no data given selections.
• Download CSV now available for stand-alone built data tables on dashboards
• Improve Mobile legends for Gradient Legends

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• Issue that was causing duplicated lines in suppressed data.
• Map legend custom sort issue was fixed.
• Visualizations sometimes overlap the data table fixed.

October 2024 - 4.24.10

Fixes

• Editing a Markup Include no longer freezes the page.
• API issue within the URL parameter for Dashboards repaired
• Filter edits now save correctly
• Horizontal Bar Charts no longer overrun Right Legends
• Larger isolated points no longer added while showing open circle
• Combo chart: Adding padding to value axis scale now working
• Dashboard Filters: URL Parameter is no longer one behind the selected value
• Dynamic Data Series now load even if first item is blank
• Memory Leak for Markup Include fixed
• Bar/line charts received a fix for the left positioning of legend

Features

• Legend enhancements for gradient style
• Expand/Collapse Buttons
• Custom colors for patterns, color contrast check support
• Legend enhancements for positioning
• Hidden metholodogy column
• Nested/Data-driven Dropdown + Editor Integration- Data Visualization Level
• Dynamic Data Series
• Please Change Settings Icon for Dashboards
• Add commas to numbers to Markup Include Module
• Standalone Multi-Select Dropdown - editor integration - dashboard-level filter
• Data Suppression Enhancements: Definition Link, Lighter Gray Color Display
• Visualization Filters: Parent Relationship
• Map: TopoJSON Additions

508 Issues and Bug Fixes

• Hidden Filters
• Combo Chart Spills Over Container
• Responsive Ticks Not Available for Paired Bar Chart
• API Dashboard Issues
• Color Code by Category: Broken for vertical bar and lollipop charts
• Multidashboard / API Issue
• Table and chart configuration issues: ARDI AAD reports
• Map Patterns: Label is wrapping in single line legend
• OSH Data: MultiSelect integration issues
• Single State Map: Filter Change - Message when state not available
• Fix missing first grid line
• Annotation Dropdown Not Showing on DFE
• Pie Chart Does Not Display on Dashboard
• Adding filters to tables causing dashboard to crash
• Chart Custom Filter Sort Order Broken