Release 2018.25

This is our last release of the year! It might be the holidays, but we are still rolling out great new features for our customers. Enjoy, and happy holidays!

NEW

  • Introducing… Variable Tagging! Variables at all levels can now be tagged with organizational metadata. Later, these tags will be used for organization in the interface as well as filtering on projections to run subsets of calculations.
Autocomplete to quickly find existing tags, or create new ones!
Simply click on the existing tags, or the “(No Tags)” label to start editing.
  • Changes between existing product variables can now be merged in the Change Management area between models. This allows for the updating of formulas, documentation, or other fields that have changed on a product variable.
  • Mortality tables can now be exported to Excel.
  • A new type of system variable, Is Dynamic Processing, is available. This variable returns a boolean value indicating if the product is currently being run dynamically within the calculation engine. If false, this means the product is being run statically instead.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Users can now create reporting dashboards directly into the shared space in addition to their personal space.
  • The model validation error count in the header now updates in real time, no longer requiring a page refresh.
  • Investment and New Business files are now visible and downloadable in the Inputs Used section of the model results. Excel tab names also show up on files in this view.
  • We’ve made several backend architectural changes to help with performance across the site, mostly focused on model validation performance.
  • Projection templates are now sorted by name in the list view.

FIXES

  • Fixed an issue where deleting an input table index sometimes caused data to get out of sync, causing errors on model compare.

Release 2018.24

NEW

  • Introducing… Merging!  This functionality is available within Change Management and allows users to merge changes between models.  We’ve started by allowing users to merge new products and product variables between models, effectively performing a copy while maintaining dependencies by allowing users to map them.  Mergeable changes will have a new icon (pictured below) next to the change.  More merge functionality will be available soon!
  • Data tables can now be compared within Change Management!  Easily see changes between data tables in a side-by-side comparison view.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Model points with issue dates after the projection start date are now treated like new business or investment model points and start calculating at their issue date.
  • When pasting rows in the table editor, new rows are now automatically appended if the paste goes beyond the end of the table.
  • “Day Of” is now an option on the Date Part formula.
  • “Days” is now an option on the Date Diff formula.
  • Projection run settings are now available on templates (ie force recalculation, etc) and we’ve added some fancy new toggle controls to allow users to more easily see settings at a glance.
  • There is now a link to directly open tables in a new window when viewing a projection or template.
  • Run time now appears in the projection list view in the Execute module.

FIXES

  • Investment model point file references are now validated properly before projection execution.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused errors to occur downstream when an unused variable was empty/invalid.

OPERATIONS

  • We’ve made several backend updates/upgrades for general security improvement.