What's New in the 2024.1 Digital Hive Release
This articles details the new product features, enhancements, and resolved issues, that were included as part of the Digital Hive 2024.1 release.
New Features & Enhancements
Flyout button
The Flyout button element is a great way to provide contextual information for an embedded report, a button, image, etc. The Flyout button essentially becomes a 'page within a page' where different types of elements can be used to provide necessary context to an object. Uses of the flyout could be in conjunction with a button to download a report, where the flyout is an image preview of the report or even an embedded copy of the report. Another use could be that there is a sales report from PowerBI being displayed on a Hive page, and there is a Qlik Sense visual about last months campaigns from Marketing that helps to explain why sales increased over the quarter. The flyout could contain the Qlik Sense visual so that users are looking at the Sales results in PowerBI and if they were curious about the increase, they could invoke the flyout and see the Marketing results.
Flyouts are great when there is contextual detail is available for objects, but not every user requires the context. They also help to simplify the user experience by not requiring every element to be rendered until necessary. In the following example, there is a Tableau Sankey visualization as well as a textual summary of the results. As not all users are familiar with how Sankeys should be interpreted a flyout was utilized for some additional context. The Flyout Button was configured to display an embedded video (using the Video element) that shows the business analysts recording of a deep dive into understanding how to read and extract value from the Sankey visualization.
For more information about this feature, consult the Including a Flyout Button in a Hive Design knowledge base article.
Contextual content metadata
When content is indexed in Digital Hive, additional metadata from the source content system is now included and available when viewing the properties of an object. Nothing needs to be configured for this as it's part of the core functionality.
Rules for Custom Fields
When using Custom Fields to enhance content with a custom metadata layer, the new Rules feature will help to ensure that certain values are only available for selection based on the value of another field. Similar to cascading prompts, the top level selection of a custom field value, will alter the available options for the next 'level' custom field. For example, selecting a Product Line will impact the list of Equipment displayed to the user.
For more information about this feature, consult the Creating rules for Custom Fields knowledge base article.
Inheriting Custom Field values
Usually, contents within a folder contain similar metadata properties. In Digital Hive, it is now possible to set Custom Field values at a folder level and then push those values down to the contents within the folder structure.
For more information about this feature, consult the Inheriting Custom Field values knowledge base article.New Content Lane layout type
A new details Content Lane layout has been added as a new layout type.
For more information about this feature, consult the Configuring Different Displays for a Content Lane knowledge base article.
Custom Column Headers for Catalog list view
Digital Hive now allows authors to define which columns are available within a list view. Each list view has it's own column headers, so it is possible to have different columns displayed for each unique list contained within a Hive. This is convenient when one user group, like Power Users, leverages one particular list view, and another group, like Marketing, leverages a different list.
For more information about this feature, consult the Leveraging Custom Column Headers in List Views knowledge base article.Download multiple artifacts
Digital Hive allows users to download multiple files, where downloadable content is available, which will result in a zip file containing the requested files.
For more information about this feature, consult the How to Download multiple files knowledge base article.Keep Hive pages loaded in memory
It is now possible to configure a Hive page so that the page contents are executed when the page is first accessed, and then remain in memory for subsequent page views. This is great for users that tend to jump between Hive pages and don't want to wait for the visualizations to reload on every page switch.
For more information about this feature, consult the Prevent Hive Pages from Loading on Every View knowledge base article.New Collection types for Catalog pages
Content Lanes that provide users with access to Favorites, New Content, Recommendations, etc are very popular in most Hive designs as they provide easy access to content in a very Netflix-ish type of way.
It is now possible to leverage these types of content 'collections' on Catalog pages providing users with not only a way to browse and search for content, but also an easy way to access different types of curated content.
To add these content collections to a Catalog page:
- Log into Digital Hive as a user with author (edit) capabilities
- Open the Hive in the Designer and navigate to the Catalog page
- In the Properties panel, scroll down to the Collections section
- Use the dropdown arrow beside the ADD... button to expose the list of available collections
- Select a collection
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 until all required collections have been added
- You can reorder the list by dragging the
icon
- Save the changes to the Hive
Hive Page sections
Digital Hive authors can now create sections on a page so that direct access to certain points on a scrollable page are accessible. For example, a Hive page contains multiple grids that extend beyond a single screen.
The desire would be that when a button from a different page is pressed, the end user is presented with the view of the regions, as opposed to showing the top level summary.
To accomplish this:
- Log into Digital Hive as an author and open the desired Hive
- Open the Hive Designer
- Navigate to the page to be edited
- Select the 'Regions' grid to expose the properties panel
- Scroll down to the Section properties
- Provide a Name for the section, which in this case will be Regions
- Optionally, a display name can be used which will impact how the section is referenced in the following steps
- Navigate to the Hive page where the button will be used to call the 'Regions' page section
- Select the button so that the properties panel is exposed
- Scroll down to the Click Action properties
- Set the Click Action to Change Page Section
- Select the Target page name to be called
- In the Section setting 'Regions' should now appear in the list
- Specify whether the call to the section will display in the same browser window or a new tab
- Save the changes to the Hive
Now when the button is invoked, the page will change and the 'Regions' section will be anchored to the top of the screen. It will still be possible for users to scroll up or down to see the rest of the page, but the default page view, when the section is referenced, will be different.
OID and Oauth for Digital Hive authentication
New authentication providers can be configured for Digital Hive, instead of SAML or Active Directory.
For more information about this feature, consult the Using OIDC or Oauth as the Authentication Source for Digital Hive knowledge base article.
Sharepoint Online objects can now be downloaded
Users browsing Sharepoint Online content can now download objects directly to their systems. Hovering over a document in Sharepoint Online will reveal the three dots icon. Clicking on this will reveal different options, including the option to Download.
This capability is enabled by default and no special configuration is required.
Opening a folder view from an object card
When viewing search results, it is possible for users to open a view to the parent folder of an object. This capability is enabled by default and no special configuration is required.
For example, searching for content pertaining to 'growth' this object is located within the search results.
Hovering over the card, the information 
icon becomes visible and will display relevant metadata about the object, including where that content is located.
Clicking on the Location link will change the view to display the contents within that folder. This is a great way to find other relevant content, even though they may not share the search criteria.
Resolved Issues
· User details panel for some other user stuck in loading when admin tries to open it
· Enhancements of indexing processes
· Users can create multiple hives with same Name and URL
· AD user stuck in login after changing some preferences
· Design distorts if the description of an artifact is too big
· Update Credential ‘checks’ and UI access
· Add option to not include qlikTicket into embed url
· Path of some files are not visible in context menu
· Unable to see PowerBI system credential name
· Audit when permissions are modified for content
· Embedded Viewer is showing blank properties panel after selecting content
· Unable to Change Font Colour to Pure Black/White for Unselected Pages
· File System connector on Windows has problems with special characters
· Enhancement Request – Have an option to use bigger icons in File Explorer
· Custom field column name with square brackets cannot be deleted
· Grid section remembers alignment option when clicking between left/right/center and stretch when it should always be centered
· Remove the flags used to indicate locales
· User menu button (avatar) disappears when screen resolution is low
· Unable to see all folders on side list
· In Hive launcher, design distorts if user set large description
· Audit database does not record Role deletions
· Mapped AD group names are not visible
· Capability changes/deprecation
· Hive paging doesn't behave as expected
· Create an import and export mechanism for custom thumbnails
· Embedding Sharepoint Online objects create duplicate Content Store records
· Hive page unloads after changing to another page and loses state
· If a user specifies output type for a click action they don’t get prompted for target
· Custom column headers in Folder Browser list view
· Add secondary page navigation dropdown to link to sections on a page
· Hive Export isn’t mapping artifact IDs for things that aren’t embedded
· Change execution mode for Salesforce Reports
· Grid min height to contain all items not working if any items have an undefined rotation value
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