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Ray Light set one of Jan Moravec's replies as an official response to "User Interface Ideas to reduce on screen text" in GoodData

Ray Light marked one of Jan Moravec's replies in GoodData as useful. Jan Moravec replied to the idea "User Interface Ideas to reduce on screen text".

Ray Light posted an update in GoodData on April 02, 2009 17:01:

Technical Support for CAPTCHA codes

It has come to our attention recently that there are some issues regarding the CAPTCHA codes used in registration for Good Data. I would like to take to take this opportunity to start the first of a series of posts to help you answer common questions.

In Internet Explorer 8, CAPTCHA codes do not render.
To get around this, it is possible to run IE 8 in Compatibility mode. However, Good Data does not yet support IE 8. We plan to have full support for IE 8 in approximately 10 weeks.

I don't use IE 8, and CAPTCHA codes still do not render
Make sure cookies are allowed in your browser. Our CAPTCHA codes actively use cookies, and will not render if cookies are turned off.

Ray Light replied on March 31, 2009 18:03 to the idea "User Interface Ideas to reduce on screen text" in GoodData:

There are some great ideas here! Thanks for spending the time to write it all up. I'll forward on all the suggestions to facilitate discussion about these issues. I expect you'll see some of these improvements in upcoming releases. Thanks again!

Ray Light replied on March 27, 2009 19:21 to the problem "Changing Global Metrics Doesn't Update Reports" in GoodData:

Hi Nathan,

This is a really interesting use case that we've debated internally, and as you mention, there are strong arguments on both sides. A key factor in the current implementation was that if a Global Metric is deleted, then this shouldn't "break" all reports that were created using the metric.

However, in the modification use case you describe, it's clear the opposite behavior would be more beneficial. I will definitely bring this up with the crew and explore ways and options of dealing with us. If you have any additional suggestions regarding this topic, please let us know!

Thanks!

Ray Light replied on March 27, 2009 16:37 to the idea "Pulse Page is Overwhelming" in GoodData:

We're aware of this, and actually have it fixed in test builds. I think you will notice a big improvement when this feature is released. All entries will be preceded by an icon to show the type of entry, and multiple similar entries by the same user will be aggregated into one entry. In addition, long entries will be truncated with the option to see "more." It's a big improvement, and it looks very nice, too! This will be added to the live service in a couple weeks.

Thanks!

Ray Light replied on March 27, 2009 16:32 to the question "Table Sorting Enhancements" in GoodData:

Ironically, in the first versions of Good Data, we had something almost exactly as you described: a separate Sort button for advanced sorting.

We are aware of the current problems here and a fix will be released soon. I like your idea of using the sort indicators for a primary sort only, and will add this to our enhancement log.

Thanks!

Ray Light replied on March 27, 2009 15:16 to the idea "Data Tab Submenu" in GoodData:

Thanks for the suggestion, Nathan! We have re-vamped this section in our current test builds, and removed "Dimension" entirely. In its place, we have added the ability to add folders under Attributes. I hope this addresses your concern here.

Regarding the order, I like your idea. We will be modifying this area and discussing improvements in upcoming releases. I will enter this suggestion in our enhancement tracker. Thanks again!

Ray Light replied on March 25, 2009 09:21 to the problem "Column header doesn't fit, so text is cut off" in GoodData:

Hi John, Thanks for the feedback! We are aware of this problem, and you should see a fix in an upcoming release. The idea is to have fully adjustable column widths. However, at the moment, it is very difficult to adjust the widths. We're working on this and will have it fixed soon. Thanks again!

Ray Light replied on March 23, 2009 18:57 to the question "Deleting versions" in GoodData:

The current philosophy is that report revisions track the history of the report, much like pages in Wikipedia, for example. For this reason, we haven't put in a way to remove a report revision. However, it is possible to delete the whole report, or save a revision as a new report.

Ray Light replied on March 23, 2009 18:55 to the question "Table Sorting Enhancements" in GoodData:

You're right, there's currently no way at the moment to distinguish between primary and secondary sorts. We are aware of this and will implement something soon to fix this.

In regards to removing a sort, you can click the sort icon again to turn it off. Making this more intuitive will also be included in any fix. Thanks for the feedback!

Ray Light replied on March 23, 2009 18:52 to the question "Unable to copy Table values using IE 7" in GoodData:

Hi Josh, Thanks for the feedback. We are aware of this, and we will be working on a solution. Currently, a possible workaround is to export the data to Excel or PDF. Not the easiest thing, I know, but just wanted to present the option. I'll report back if this changes in upcoming releases.

Ray Light replied on March 19, 2009 18:54 to the idea "Left Justify Attribute Text in Reports" in GoodData:

I agree. We have many visualization fixes on our "to-do" list and you should see these changes in coming releases. I'll make sure this one gets added to the list. Thanks!

Ray Light replied on March 19, 2009 18:22 to the idea "Edit Comments" in GoodData:

Another great suggestion... This one will go into our enhancement log along with the others. Thanks for the great feedback!

Ray Light replied on March 19, 2009 09:55 to the idea "Share my Favorites" in GoodData:

Hi Nathan, Thanks for the great suggestion! I will add this to our enhancements log and begin the discussion about this feature. Please keep the great ideas coming!

Ray Light replied on March 16, 2009 09:37 to the idea "Easier Navigation to Favorite Reports" in GoodData:

Hi Nathan. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add improved navigation to favorite reports to the enhancements list. Please keep the suggestions coming!

Ray Light asked a question in GoodData on March 06, 2009 13:47:

Good Data just got a brand new facelift!!

I am very excited to announce that today we launched a major update to Good Data. This release is a major step towards our 1.0 release. In the new beta, you will quickly notice the following major improvements:

Brand new user interface!
- Complete overhaul of application's look and feel. Check it out... it's awesome!

Report creation enhancements
- Customize the appearance of your metrics with the new metric formatting feature
- Adjustable table size allows you to work in narrow or wide table mode
- Customize individual column widths
- Report statistics for entire reports or selected areas

In addition, there are a lot of smaller improvements to the overall environment to help make your workflow more efficient and pleasurable. Try it for yourself at:
http://beta.gooddata.com

We thank you for your continued support, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on this latest update. In addition, we'd love to hear from you regarding potential use cases. If you have a particular use case in mind and would like some assistance, just let us know.

As always, you can post here or email us at support@gooddata.com

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Ray Light posted an update in GoodData on February 13, 2009 16:55:

Good Data just got a bit better!

We're pleased to announce that we released an updated version of Good Data today. Key new features include:

- Simple dashboards: get code to embed your reports or comments onto any Web page and build custom dashboards showing multiple reports.

- Data management: Create composite attributes (attributes composed of 2 or more columns of source data)

- Incremental uploads: append new data to existing data sets

- ZIP format upload support: Save time and bandwidth by uploading CSV files in ZIP format

Thanks for your support! Your feedback has been great, and we love receiving it! Stay tuned for more good stuff in the coming weeks!

Ray Light replied on January 28, 2009 22:26 to the problem "Incorrect import of tables in UTF-8" in GoodData:

I just wanted to post an update to this issue... we are currently working on a fix for this, and we will be able to accept UTF-8 in an update in the near future. We will post again once the version is released, but just wanted to let you know we didn't forget, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention!

Ray Light replied on December 09, 2008 11:00 to the problem "Unable to parse a valid CSV file" in GoodData:

Thanks for alerting us to this. In regards to this file, there are a couple things that I notice right away, and other things that are a bit more complicated. Someone here is working with this file to replicate everything, and then give a more detailed answer in the other post (http://getsatisfaction.com/gooddata/t... ).

Thanks for the detailed feedback!