You can now search by keyword when selecting an existing dashboard to save a widget on. After you click the Star icon, a modal dialog appears where you can either select an existing dashboard or enter the name of a new dashboard. When you expand the dropdown containing your list of dashboards, there is a text-box you can use to filter your list of dashboards to quickly find a specific dashboard.
If you scroll down on this home page, you will find a new widget that contains an embedded preview of side-by-side GeoChronicles Bookmarks on GeoSynergy2!
If you scroll down on the home page, you will see a new widget that lists recently updated datasets (from the Annual Crop Stats topic only). If you click on the source name, you can quickly see some widgets that preview a subset of the data included in that update.
The weekly Topsoil/Subsoil classification statistics have been added to CropSignal. The data is sourced from NASS QuickStats and covers US National and State levels from 1995-present. The data can be found from the CropSignal Weather topic (Use ‘Non crop specific weather’ as crop), from the USDA source.
To improve the rendering performance of CropSignal Dashboards, we have added pre-rendered caching to some map widgets from the Annual Crop Stats Topic. Dashboards that have been created or viewed in the last 60 days will have the map images rendered in advance so they should load much faster when viewing. Keep logging into CropSignal and viewing your favorite dashboards so they continue to perform optimally!
The help section has been revised. A table of help topics and FAQs is now available with easy-to-navigate carousel of screenshots and tips along with broken down video tutorials.
Also, the Annual Crop Stats Topic now has a self-guided tour option.
You can now pin the previews of webmarks to dashboards as individual widgets. Navigate to the Webmarks tab and click the “Preview” link for any of your webmarks (or those that have been shared with you), and the preview widget will appear in the box to the right. Click the little star at the top-right of the widget and pick the dashboard to pin the webmark to. (Note: Some webmarks may not permit previews inside CropSignal).
We have deployed the same sharing feature currently used for dashboards to the webmark and calendar event features. Users can share webmarks and calendar events to any users in the group they belong to (assuming they are permitted). A share button appears in the Webmarks index page (as well as the edit pages for webmarks and events) where a user can select other users or entire groups to share with.
We have added a new widget type to Pivot widgets which simulates pivot tables, but makes the statistical metadata visible. GDA collects attributes about the source of statistical information (including how the source identifies the year, the date, source URL, file info, rows and columns — it varies depending on the source). To view it, click the Metadata tab on the pivot widget. This will present the data as a table (though without pivoting, aggregation or custom variables). Each row will have an expand button in the first column which, when clicked, will show the relevant metadata.
Dashboards can now be shared in ‘editable’ mode in addition to the previous ‘read-only’ mode. As the dashboard owner, you can elect to make the dashboard editable to users or groups that you share it with, or to make it read-only. If it is editable, users you share it with may edit the contents of your dashboard, e.g. resize widgets, add widgets, delete widgets or change widget settings.
Additionally, you can make a dashboard re-shareable, that is you give permission to people you share with to also re-share that dashboard directly with other users.
In the dashboard share dialog box, you can find checkboxes for these settings.
