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• Addition of Ring Pie Chart. A new chart type, Ring Pie, has been added to the Select a Visual menu in the InfoDiscovery Workbench. Ring pie charts are circular charts that display the total for the selected measure in the center of the ring. In addition, you can hover over a colored segment of the ring to view its underlying value. This makes it easy to compare individual segments against the total.

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You can include API calls in WebFOCUS procedures to create dynamic, sophisticated server-side graphs that showcase your business data. You can generate HTML5 charts that can be customized using both the WebFOCUS API calls and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) properties.

In Release 8.1.03, the following features have been added for HTML5 charts:

• Nearest Neighbor Tooltip Detection. The default tooltip detection method has been changed for line, area, and scatter charts so that when the mouse pointer moves off a point, the tooltip disappears. To restore the previous behavior for line, scatter, and area charts, you can add the mousemove:'nearestNeighbor' property to the interaction object.
• Displaying Data Text Labels on a Bubblemap. Data text labels will display on a bubblemap if you show data values for all series and set the dataLabels property to true.
• Gauge Chart Minor Grid Line Support. Gauge charts now support yaxis:minorGrid properties. By default, the minor grid lines are visible.
• Support for Discrete Color Bands in Color Scales. Discrete color mode visualizes the colorScale in discrete color bands for heatmaps and choropleths.
• Hiding an Extrapolated Line That Starts Before Actual Values. By default, if missing values are shown on a line chart, and if they start before the start of actual values in the data source, the line is extrapolated to include those missing values. The missingDataExtrapolate:false property omits those extrapolated values from the chart output.
• Annotations. An annotation is text, a marker, or both that you want to place anywhere on a chart. Multiple annotations can be defined within the annotations array.
• SVG Color Patterns. In some cases, you may want to use patterns to distinguish chart elements such as risers and markers, or to fill chart frames. This can be a useful technique in black and white environments where colors are not distinguishable.

In Release 8.1.03, the following features have been added for server-side charts:

• Format Option for the Stack Total Value. When generating a stacked graph, you can set the setUseDataTextStackTotalOnTopFormat(Boolean); API to true. This enables you to format the stack total value using the setTextFormatPreset(getDataTextStackedTotalOnTop(), int); API call.
• Formatting Date and Time Values for Y-Axis Labels. Military time uses a 24-hour time format where numbers between zero (0) and one (1), or times using a 12-hour format with AM and PM indicators, are converted to times between 0:00 and 23:00. Numbers greater than one are cycled so that they map to one of these hours as well, except for cumulative military time, in which case they add to the original value. You can use the setTextFormatPreset() and setSimpleDateFormat() API calls to implement these formats.
• Plus and Minus Marker Shapes. The marker shape, circlePlus, displays a circle with a plus sign (+) centered in it, and the marker shape, circleMinus, displays a circle with a minus sign (-) centered in it.