23.1 enhancements and patches
Review the BMC Helix Dashboards 23.1 enhancements and patches for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.
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For updates and enhancements in the previous release and its patches, see Release-notes-and-notices.
BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows.
23.1.02
Filter data and schedule reports by additional fiscal time ranges
As a dashboard user, use the additional fiscal time ranges to filter data in dashboards and schedule dashboard reports. The additional fiscal time ranges provide detailed insight about your dashboard reports, which can help in better financial comparison and transparency.
- This fiscal year so far
- This fiscal year
- Previous fiscal quarter
- Previous fiscal year
For more information, see Configuring-dashboards-panels-and-queries and Scheduling-reports-for-automatic-distribution.
Audit the configuration changes in BMC Helix Dashboards
As an administrator, track and monitor the activities performed in BMC Helix Dashboards and take corrective measures. You can audit the changes done in Preferences, Report scheduler settings, data sources, and alarm policies.
For more information, see Auditing-configuration-changes-in-BMC-Helix-Dashboards.
Track open and pending workplace-related cases by using the Workplace Service Dashboard
Use the Workplace Service Dashboard to gain insights into the metrics for workplace-related reactive and preventive maintenance cases created in BMC Helix Business Workflows. This dashboard helps you to track workplace-related cases, address issues in a timely manner, and monitor the workload of team members.
Learn more about the dashboard in Workplace-Service-Dashboard.
View log volume in the out-of-the-box AWS dashboard
To help you keep a track of the tenant space utilization, log collection statistics are now reported in log volume instead of log count in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard.
For more information, see Amazon-Web-Services-dashboard.
Monitor ETL health by using the marketplace content dashboard
As an administrator, use the ETL Health dashboard in the marketplace content to monitor the health of ETLs configured in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization and understand the overall impact on data collection.
For more information, see Building-a-dashboard-quickly-from-marketplace-content.
23.1.01
Personalize your dashboard views
By default, dashboards provide a generic view to the users with the filters set by the dashboard author. As a dashboard user, you can personalize your dashboard views by saving the filter criteria. You can also avoid resetting the filters repeatedly.
For more information, see To save filter values in dashboards.
23.1
The following video (3.11) provides an overview of the features added to BMC Helix Dashboards 23.1 release:
Display date in local time format
BMC Helix Dashboards displays the date in panels by using your browser's local time format. Any panel that displays a date can use the time format that is set in your browser.
Filter the BMC Helix Portal Audit dashboard by applications
As an administrator, filter the BMC Helix Portal Audit dashboard by the applications on which the audit activities are performed. You can also select multiple options for the dashboard filters.
For more information, see BMC-Helix-Portal-Audit-dashboard.
Customize the BMC Cross-tab panel plug-in
As an administrator, set the number of columns and rows allowed in a cross-tab panel. You can also choose the colors and background of the column and row header text.
For more information, see Visualizing-data-as-grids.
View log volume in the out-of-the-box dashboards
Log collection statistics are reported in log volume (in MB) rather than log count in the Kubernetes and Self Monitoring dashboards.
For more information, see BMC-Helix-Log-Analytics.
Track DevOps Metrics for change requests
As a SaaS administrator, editor, or viewer, you can use the DevOps Metrics dashboard to monitor the details of all the closed and completed change requests. Track the metrics in this dashboard to optimize your organization's performance and achieve the DevOps ideal levels of speed and stability, as defined by organizations such as DORA (DevOps Research Association).
For more information, see BMC-Helix-ITSM-DevOps-Metrics-dashboard.
Name change for BMC Helix Business Workflows License usage dashboard
The License usage by Requester - Summary report dashboard has been renamed to Active User License Usage Report dashboard.
Experience enhanced reporting with Grafana 9.3
This version of BMC Helix Dashboards supports a few selected features from Grafana 9.3.0. For more information, see Grafana 9.3 release notes.