We pushed an emergency patch to prod (tagged 0.4.3) to fix some problems with password encryption. If you experience any problems with your database connectors, please let us know.
Additionally, we fixed a small problem with forgot password functionality whereby a user who had authenticated their account, but never actually logged in, was resent an authentication token (instead of a forgot password token).
Keep your eye on this space - we have some exciting new Map Export features coming soon.
Version 0.4.2 of the Bluyah application has been pushed out. Several important enhancements in this release include:
- Improved outbound email service (Ticket #93). Thanks to a wonderful post by Paul Dowman, outbound emails are now being routed through a trusted relay service. Even better, Yahoo and Hotmail are no longer rejecting our emails. (props to Alex for bringing this issue to our attention)
- A simplified Login process (Ticket #89). Users will no longer have to login “again” if starting from the wrong sub-domain.
- Application upgraded to Rails 2.1 (Ticket #88)
- Charts export now includes 3D column and Stacked Column charts (see Enhanced Charts). In addition, the chart management screen allows you to control more aspects of your chart, like axis text color, background color, whether or not to display the chart legend, and more granular control over the location and display of the report title.
- Map export has been considerably enhanced. The Map management screen now allows users to swtich between geocoding and not geocoding. If your data set includes latitude and longitude information, the simpler interface will allow you to quickly plot marker points. If instead your data includes street, city, zip code information, the application will ’geocode’ the address automatically as the map is being generated. See Mapping Basics for a more detailed explanation.
- Finally, we’ve tightened the security all around, to include enhanced password encryption.
Feel free to contact us with any feedback you may have.
Previously, in Basic Charts, we talked about getting some data out of a database and creating a very simple chart showing users per week in the Bluyah application.
With Version 0.4.2 of the application, enhanced charts have been introduced. Here is that same data displayed as a 3D Column chart:
Some things that have changed - you can now:
- See the value of the column displayed in a “tooltip” by mousing over any part of the column. (try it!)
- Set chart background color
- Set chart axis text color
- Toggle legend on and off
- Toggle Report title on and off - as well as position it on the chart.
- Toggle the horizontal and vertical axis lines
More changes are in the works. Feel free to send us your comments and/or suggestions.
Maps are increasingly becoming a valuable aid in helping users to visualize their data.
Consider something as relatively simple as plotting out a map of your customers so you can better analyze where precious marketing dollars should be spent. Before you can even begin to do this, you need to determine which mapping API you’re going to integrate with (Google may be more popular choice), register for a developer ‘key’, then start writing the application code to get your data out of your customer tracking system.
This is all before you even begin to wade through fairly complex Javascript required to to get these data points plotted on a map. And if your data is not already geocoded … well, there goes your weekend.
Or - you could use Bluyah and go from data source to the map you see below in less than 5 minutes:
[Editor's Note: With the introduction of Enhanced Maps in version 0.4.4, basic maps are no longer supported. As such, the referenced map has been removed.]
Here we decided to plot the pizza parlors closest to our office (for those late-night coding sessions).
Hope this helps. As always, feel free to contact us with your questions and suggestions.
