What's New in the 2025.2 Digital Hive Release
What's New in the Digital Hive 2025.2 Release
This articles details the new product features, enhancements, and resolved issues, that were included as part of the Digital Hive 2025.2 release.
Prerequisites
To move to this release, this must be a new installation, or you must have an existing Digital Hive 2.x installation. You can install over any fix level releases that were previously applied to Digital Hive.
New Features & Enhancements
Connector support for Tableau Cloud
A new Connector for Tableau Cloud was added to the growing list of supported content providers. Tableau Cloud is a Cloud version of Tableau Server which requires different connectivity parameters than the existing Tableau Server Connector.
For more information about this topic, check out the Connect Digital Hive to Tableau Cloud article
Ability to nest pages beneath a menu option
Hive designs often call for the need to have pages nested beneath top level menu options to create a multi level page layout. This is now possible in the Digital Hive 2025.2 release. One example is the desire to have a top level 'Global Sales' page that contains a list of individual country pages nested beneath it.
For more information about this topic, check out the Creating Hives that Contain Multiple Levels of Pages article.
Suppress certain objects that are visible through Discoverable Search
By default, a user in Digital Hive is not able to see content that they haven't been granted access to. An earlier Digital Hive feature, called Discoverable Search, will expose users to ALL content across all content systems. If a user does not have access to a report, a lock icon will appear in place of the thumbnail, and if the user tries to launch the report, a customizable message would be presented. While promoting true self-service and helping to reduce duplication of created reports, there are some scenarios where certain content, even if a user can't access the report, should be hidden from users.
In the new 2025.2 Digital Hive release, it is now possible to create rules to suppress certain content, or to only show certain content, when the Discoverable Search is enabled.
For more information about this topic, check out the Discoverable Search Feature Overview article
Set Custom Field values from an Excel xlsx file
Adding Custom Metadata Fields to Enhance Digital Hive Content is a great way to provide users with additional context about the dashboards and reports in your environment. Setting these values required manual effort, but in this release, it is now possible to bulk load any number of updates using a system generated xlsx file.
For more information about this topic, check out the Bulk Upload Values for Custom Metadata Fields article
Service Principal support for PowerBI and Sharepoint Online connectors
It is now possible to integrate with Microsoft PowerBI and Sharepoint Online through the use of a Service Principal as opposed to using a system credential.
For more information about this topic, check out the Connecting to Microsoft PowerBI article.
When using Service Principal, PowerBI Apps are excluded from the available content. Due to the Microsoft implementation, it is not currently possible to leverage PowerBI apps with Service Principal
Operational audit metrics displayed in the Control Center
One of the benefits of deploying Digital Hive is the ability to provide visibility into content utilization and access across multiple, disparate, content servers. To accomplish this in previous versions, connecting a third party reporting solution to the Digital Hive audit database was required. The 2025.2 release now provides administrators with high level utilization metrics and visualizations, that offer insight into some the most commonly asked governance questions.
- How many users are accessing Digital Hive?
- How many reports are being executed across the different content systems?
- What are users searching for?
- How much content is actually being utilized?
For more information about the provided operational metrics, please consult the Leveraging the Operational Visualizations in the Digital Hive Control Center article.
Even though there are some out of the box metrics and visualizations, this knowledge article is still valid and useful when creating custom audit reports in a third party BI solution: Digital Hive Auditing Explained.
Provide list of all content system objects in Digital Hive
Not all existing artifacts from the various content systems is utilized. Through the Digital Hive audit data, it is possible to analyze which content is being utilized, when it was accessed, and who accessed it. This provides great value for proper cross platform governance, but only highlights content that is actually being utilized. What about the content that isn't being leveraged?
New in this release is the ability to generate a spreadsheet (xslx) file that contains a list of all content available in Digital Hive, the amount of times it has been executed, and when it was last accessed. This includes not only the content that is being utilized, but the content that is not being used. Using this information, you now have evidence of what content is not being used and could possibly be deleted.
To generate the Execution Report:
- Log into Digital Hive as an Administrator
- Using the user avatar and select Manage Digital Hive
- Click on Content -> Connectors
- Click Advanced...
- Select the Export execution report option which will download an xslx file called content-usage-report-xxxx (where xxxx represents an ID and timestamp)
Opening the spreadsheet in Excel, you will see multiple columns, the first two are minimized as they are for system use. The relevant columns are:
- Source: This is the type of content connector where the content comes from
- Name: The name of the object (it is possible to have missing names from content based on the content type) coming from the content system
- Path: Where the object is located inside the Digital Hive folder structure
- VisitCount: This is the amount of times the object has been accessed
- LastVisit: The last date/time that the content has been executed
With this spreadsheet, you can convert the rows and columns into a table which will allow you to sort and filter based on requirements.
Resolved Issues and Minor Enhancements
- Support OID authentication for IBM Cognos Analytics #5331
- UI overflow labels when long folder names are used
- Encrypted password returned in web response (but remained encrypted)
- Update Spring-Core libraries to newer version
- Update activemq and openwire libraries to newer versions
- Update spring-context library to newer version
- Add line wrap to long custom field values
- Add failover node for IQ Machine Learning engine
- Correct default scope issue with OIDC
- Copying a page incorrectly invokes the "confirm delete" dialog
- Hide "item subtitle" style option for Catalog and Search pages
- Some location paths for SharePoint Online connector stopped appearing
- Correct French translation for 'link'
- Add a 'clear cache' option for PowerBI, SharePoint Online, PowerBI Report Server, and Qlik Sense connectors
- Sort by type issues in Content Lanes
- In contextual search, the placeholder name should be the custom name not the default name
- Search within a dynamic folder fails in certain circumstances
- Add support for Tableau Cloud JWT logon
- Filtering by rating removes 5 star results from list
- Amazon Quicksight content is showing as 'unknown' type
- Clicking on the default hive dropdown while the hives list is still loading causes the page to crash
- Logging out of Digital Hive doesn't log out SAML authentication session
- Long folder names UI overflow
- AD groups brought in using 'Enable AD Authority Lookup' are mixed case
- Import Hive dialog improvements
- Incorrect French translation for 'Google Drive'
- Audit user membership for DH roles mapped to AD groups
- When embedding DH content, the redirect of Tableau content fails without an active session
- UI freezes when a negative value is configured as a maximum field length value
- Index summary should also include the type of index that was executed
- Custom description and thumbnail are not visible after shallow indexing in French locale
- Unable to open PDF if extension is in capital letters
- Unable to logout of Digital Hive is using OAuth or OIDC authentication
- Refreshing the access token for Sharepoint connector could result in a failed user login
- Various sorting issues within search results
- Losing the consumer role when importing/exporting hives
- Color scheme and themes page pagination is not working properly
- Synchronize the list of output types available in DH so that they match what Cognos provides
- Multilingual strings get deleted if the user changes the data type of the custom field
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