2.4 Release Highlights

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Last updated: Apr 14, 2015 by Charles Patton Jr (Unlicensed)Version comment
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HTML5 Mobile UI

Periscope dashboards can now be accessed on any mobile device that supports HTML5, which includes iOS and Android.  The new mobile UI displays a list of HTML5 compatible viewlets which are displayed using HTML5.  Viewlets can also be exported to HTML5 using the "Share Viewlet" feature, which allows embedding of viewlets into 3rd party web pages.

Periscope 2.4 is also available as a Niagara Mobile App and can be saved to your mobile device's home screen and used natively.  

Supported Viewlets:
  • Ranking
  • Baseline
  • Dual Axis
  • Line Chart
  • Column Chart
  • Pie Chart
  • Area Chart
  • Gauge
  • Semi-Gauge
  • Live Line Chart
  • Point Table

Energy Profile Viewlet

The Energy Profile Viewlet enables users to quickly identify anomalies in data and compare average profiles to different periods of times or different trends.  

Features
  • Supports hourly and daily profiles
  • Events can be added to the chart
  • Profiles can be compared to a baseline of a different time period or trend

 

Utility Bill Manager

The new Utility Bill Manager is a HTML5 web application that is bundled with Periscope 2.4.  The Utility Bill Manager provides an easy to use interface to manage utility bills.  Bills can be added, edited, and removed which will automatically update Periscope with the changes.  This offers a rapid way to provide data for your dashboard.


Utility Bill Integration

Periscope 2.4 includes a new trend type called UtilityBillRecord which extends normal Niagara AX trends to model utility bills.  These trends now contain columns for start date, end date, consumption, and cost.  Periscope supported drivers have also been updated to create trends of this new type, including CSV Mapper, Energy Star driver and Utility Mapper.

Periscope 2.4 intelligently normalizes these new trend types to more accurately compare and view utility bills in existing Periscope viewlets.  For example, some times two bills may occur in the same month and none the next month.  Periscope intelligently splits bills up so that normalized values would show up on every month of the year.  In addition comparing bills is often difficult due to the varying number of days per bill.  This years March bill may have 25 days and last years could have 32.  Periscope will normalize bill days automatically to provide accurate bill comparisons.

Custom Units

Periscope Config now includes the ability to specify custom units.  These custom units can be applied to trends and points and will show up as normal units throughout Periscope. Custom unit configuration is accessible via the global properties.

 

Data Correction

Viewlet trend data can now be modified directly from Periscope viewlets.  This includes the ability to "auto" correct bad points which could be caused by a meter rollover or device that is down.  This feature can be used by clicking on a data point in Periscope 2.4 and then clicking on the pencil to edit the data.  If the selected point is a rolled up value the user will be presented with a chart and table to assist in pinpointing the problematic point(s).  

Weekends Overlay

Weekend Overlays can now be added to several viewlets in Periscope 2.4.  A new checkbox is available in the viewlet configurations for:

  • Dual Axis
  • Line Chart
  • Column Chart
  • Area chart

 

Minor Features

  • Baseline Viewlet can now compare against a second trend and time range
  • Added context sensitive tool tips to viewlet configuration options
  • Restructured and simplified complex viewlet configs
  • Resource Consumption equivalency bar can now be toggled to hide/show
  • CsvMapper and UtilityMapper can now create Numeric Trends or UtilityBIll trends
  • History Groups function can now be set to Monthly
  • Added "Select All' checkbox for Year Over Year viewlet config
  • SemiGauge now has the option to change value font size
  • Gauge units have been moved from beneath the gauge to the gauge face
  • Gauge background image can be panned/zoomed 
  • Export to CSV remembers position after a refresh or logout
  • Drilldown Pie and Drilldown Column colors can now be set in the AX components

Minor Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with History Column Chart width when switching rollup intervals
  • Fixed issue where PX viewlet could go blank after switching tabs
  • Fixed "Include null" checkbox when editing a Rollup in PersicopeConfig
  • Fixed "Scale" property in History Functions to show decimals for values < 1
  • Fixed issue where History Conversion would alter the user input name when switching units
  • Fixed Resource Consumption PDF export for hourly 
  • Fixed issue with spaces in History Conversion names
  • Removed "Invert Y-Axis" option from Ranking Chart configuration
  • Prevent Periscope from reusing cache when a new version is available