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Dashboards can be manually ordered

Dashboards can now be manually ordered from the index page.  You can click the little “grab” icon in the first column and drag-and-drop dashboards into the desired order.  Once completed, make sure you click the ‘Save Order’ button to preserve … Continue reading

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New NDVI-derived “Condition Variables”

We have added new variables that estimate relative crop conditions using crop-specific MODIS NDVI data.  The variables utilize historical accumulated NDVI (from a given start date) to estimate the relative condition between years over time. The variables are available under … Continue reading

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GDD-derived time stages in Weather Topic

We have revised the way GDD-derived crop stages are labeled as plotbands on crop-specific GDD charts from the Weather Topic.  If only one year, location, and crop are selected, the GDD stages are displayed along the X-axis (time).  If more … Continue reading

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Removing Map Labels

The option to choose what value is used to label features on maps has been revised into a dropdown list.  Also, an “Off” option has been added which, if selected, removes all labels from the map.

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New Feature: Duplicate widget on same dashboard

The copy widget function on the dashboard view page has been expanded to allow widgets to be duplicated on the current dashboard (in addition to copying onto another dashboard that already existed). To duplicate a widget, click the “Copy widget” … Continue reading

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Data Labels Setting for Pivot Charts

You can now globally enable data labels (show each point’s data value on chart) for all series on the chart with a single setting.  The toggle setting is named “Labels” and appears in the chart toolbar.

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Pivot Table Sorting Now Preserved

Column sorting changes on pivot tables are now preserved in the widget settings on CropSignal.  (Previously, changes to sorting weren’t preserved).  This is helpful for exporting PNG renderings of widgets with custom column sorting. You can change the column sorting … Continue reading

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CHIRPS Accumulated Precipitation variables now available

GDA is pleased to announce that new variables representing accumulated precipitation from the CHIRPS data source are now available under the Weather Topic.  These new variables take the precipitation statistics that are subset to administrative unit locations and represent different … Continue reading

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Weather Topic – New temporal formats and split

We have expanded the Weather Topic so that users can choose the type of temporal format to be used in a widget.  Previously, only the full start date of the period (dekad, week, month) could be selected in YYYY-MM-DD format … Continue reading

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New Help items

New tutorials demonstrating 1) how to set up an alert to monitor data source(s) for changes and 2) how to build a chart to visualize data source forecast performance over time have been added to the Help.  You can find … Continue reading

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