Adds new multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.
Features
- Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
- New components
- Avatar - Avatars are icons or figures that represent a particular person. They are developed as pure CSS components and support popular media formats like images, SVG, font-icons, and letters.
- Badge - The badge is a notification component developed in pure CSS that can be used to alert users about new or unread messages, notifications, and additional information about content.
- Button group - The button group is a pure CSS component that groups a series of buttons together vertically or horizontally. It supports single and multiple selection behaviors.
- Color picker - The color picker lets users pick a color either by selecting color values or by adjusting them. It supports RGB (red, green, and blue), HSV (hue, saturation, and value), and hex color codes.
- Diagram - Used to build visual representations of information. It can also be used to create diagrams like flow charts, organizational charts, mind maps, and BPMN diagrams either through code or a visual interface.
- Document editor - The document editor component is used to create, edit, view, and print Word documents in web applications.
- Heat map - The heat map control is used to visualize two-dimensional data in which the values are represented in a color gradient or as fixed colors.
- Pivot grid - The pivot grid is a multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.
- Range navigator - The range navigator provides an intuitive interface for selecting a smaller range from a larger collection.
- Rich text editor - The rich text editor component is a WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience for creating and updating rich text content.
- Smith chart - A Smith chart is a data visualization tool used for high frequency circuit applications. It contains two sets of circles to plot the parameters of transmission lines.
- Sparkline - A sparkline is a very small chart, typically drawn without axes or coordinates, that conveys information to the user in a small space.
- Switch - The switch component lets users toggle between checked and unchecked states.
- Toast - A toast is a small container in which users can show single or multiple informative lines with actions.
- Tree map - The tree map is used to visualize hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. The area of each item is calculated based on its corresponding numeric value.
- Theme studio - Theme studio is a new web-based tool that can be used to customize component themes. It supports importing and exporting customized themes, and filtering to select which components to change.
- Chart
- Scrollbar - Scrollbar support has been provided to zoom and pan the chart.
- Histogram - Chart provides options for histogram series type.
- Pie grouping - Now, pie slice in the accumulation chart can be grouped based on data count.
- Essential DocIO
- Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
- Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
- Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
- Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
- Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
- Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
- Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
- Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
- Grid
- Multidelete - Now multiple records can be deleted from grid at a time. Enable multiselection to select multiple records and use the toolbar delete button or the Delete key to remove multiple records.
- Server-side Data Operation - DataOperations class has been added, which helps you perform server-side actions such as paging, sorting, searching, and filtering.
- List view
- UI virtualization - Loading only visible list items in a view port. This helps improve list view performance when loading a large number of items. The list items are updated dynamically while users scroll the list.
- Maps
- Animation on zooming - Provided smooth transition support for zooming of layers.
- Title trim - Provided support to trim the map title when it exceeds the available width.
- Print and Export - Provided support for printing and exporting maps.
- Essential PDF
- PDF to PDFA-1b - Convert existing PDF documents to PDFA-1b documents.
- Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
- Document time stamps - Add time stamps to PDF documents without using certificates.
- Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
- Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
- Add annotations to the PDF layers.
- Essential Presentation
- Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
- PowerPoint to PDF conversion in Azure platform - Support to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF in Azure platform.
- Schedule
- Multiple resources - Multiple resources and grouping support has been added to view and manage events of multiple users on the same page.
- Grouping
- Timescale - An enhanced option provided to allow users to change or hide the time interval duration on schedule as per their application requirement.
- Slider
- Slider limits - Set min and max values to limit which values can be selected within the range.
- Drag interval - Enables users to interact with a range slider by dragging the range bar.
- Uploader
- Chunk upload - This feature breaks a large file into small chunks, and uploads them to the server in a sequential order using asynchronous mode.
- Essential XlsIO
- Group shape support - Essential XlsIO now allows multiple shapes to be grouped into a single shape, which allows shape settings to be applied to all the shapes in a group at once.
- AutoShape support in Excel-to-PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
- Pivot table layout enhancement - Essential XlsIO now supports additional layout options to repeat data of specific fields or all the fields.
- Excel chart styles - Essential XlsIO now supports quickly changing the chart style by setting the style ID between 1 and 48. The default style ID is 2.
- Copy and paste enhancement - Essential XlsIO now allows blank cells to be skipped when copying data from a source range to a destination range.