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ZD set one of ZD's replies as an official response to "Column headers in exported XLS don't match those in online report" in Good Data

ZD replied on October 20, 2009 10:07 to the problem "Column headers in exported XLS don't match those in online report" in Good Data:

I believe that this is a problem with the metric aliases that we have fixed last week. The fix should hit the production in roughly 3 weeks. Thanks for letting us know!

ZD set one of ZD's replies as an official response to "What does the "Sorry, only one column can be mapped to each dimension." error msg mean?" in Good Data

ZD replied on October 12, 2009 12:50 to the question "What does the "Sorry, only one column can be mapped to each dimension." error msg mean?" in Good Data:

First, I agree that the error message is very confusing. The issue is that the data mapping during the file upload phase is very limited. The platform can only map one date column during this phase. The subsequent mappings can be performed after the data upload.

This is what the error message tries to say. We should make it way more descriptive and suggest the mapping after the upload.

ZD replied on October 12, 2009 09:40 to the question "Changing column header names" in Good Data:

Agreed, we are working on better hinting the table and chart actions. There are more. We would like to also better emphasize options for drilling etc.

A comment on the idea "Usability annoyance regarding data uploads" in Good Data:

There are few different ways how to load data into a Good Data project. These differ in the amount of data that the product requires from user.

We have started with implementing web UI for the simplest one. We plan on introducing an advanced data loading options that will allow specifying metadata in some more declarative format. We are considering extending the MAQL language with some DDL statements. – ZD, on October 12, 2009 09:38

ZD replied on October 12, 2009 09:27 to the idea "Quick browsing of existing data files." in Good Data:

Yes, this would be very helpful. We have heard about this multiple times and this requirement is on our list.

Thanks

ZD

ZD replied on October 06, 2009 10:26 to the idea "Let Admins "back up" a project" in Good Data:

Tom, the complete project backup and restore is very much on our roadmap. We hope that we can deliver it within few months.

Thanks for your feedback!

ZD

ZD set one of ZD's replies as an official response to "Allow Admins to disable the "Data in this report has been updated..." report alerts for a project" in Good Data

ZD replied on September 24, 2009 18:34 to the idea "Allow Admins to disable the "Data in this report has been updated..." report alerts for a project" in Good Data:

I agree this is very annoying. We would like to remove the notification completely in situation when the data are refreshed instead of creating some setting. We know about this one and we will address it as soon as possible.

ZD set one of ZD's replies as an official response to "When viewing a chart, if you export to PDF..." in Good Data

ZD replied on September 24, 2009 18:33 to the idea "When viewing a chart, if you export to PDF..." in Good Data:

We have this one on our roadmap. My wild guess is that we are going to release it early Q1 next year. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

A comment on the problem "Multiple Date Attributes are not Working (in the new release?)" in Good Data:

Please double-check that you have all dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format and that the month and day have the leading zeroes. Even one incorrect value can prevent the mapping. – ZD, on September 12, 2009 05:43

ZD replied on September 12, 2009 05:42 to the problem "Multiple Date Attributes are not Working (in the new release?)" in Good Data:

I§m not surprised with the ZIPcodes as we use the Census 2000 ZIP database that is a bit outdated. I bet that you have some newer ZIPs that are not in our dimension. We plan on refreshing the Geo data.

ZD replied on September 10, 2009 19:45 to the problem "Multiple Date Attributes are not Working (in the new release?)" in Good Data:

Tom, I think that I know what is the problem. We have added the NULL date value to the time dimension to support the empty date fields in the uploaded files. We have experienced a specific problem with the mapping that resembles the behavior that you are describing. The problem is with the automatic conversion of the date values. All values that can't be converted to date (even values like last name) are converted to NULL and match the newly added NULL value in the date dimension. I assume that for some reason (bad date format) your values are converted to NULL instead of a date value. I assume that you are using the ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) date format. Can you please double-check that the values are formatted properly and that you are mapping them to the correct format (US vs. ISO)? If all of the above is OK, would it be possible to try to use the US format (MM/DD/YYYY)? Please note that you need to always us the 2 digits for day and month (01 instead just 1) and four digits for the year.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience

ZD

ZD replied on August 20, 2009 07:39 to the question "Adding Reports to a Space" in Good Data:

Yes, you can drag-n-drop reports to the space on the Reports page.

ZD replied on August 04, 2009 11:56 to the problem "Zipped data file size upload issue" in Good Data:

Tom,

we don't apply the limit to the size of the ZIP file but to the size of the expanded CSV. We have to changed the limit to 35MB recently. Your later chunk is slightly over this limit.

ZD

ZD replied on July 31, 2009 14:27 to the idea "User-editable data which can be used in metric formulas" in Good Data:

Hi Tom,

thank you for sharing this idea with us. We are designing a prompting mechanism that allows defining a variables in reports and metrics. These variables need to be defined when you execute a report. We call these variables prompts. The prompts can be passed to report execution mechanism either implicitly (via some parameters associated with user or user session or project) or explicitly (user specify them at report execution time). I believe that such mechanism would fulfill your needs. I hope that we will have this mechanism in production in next three months.

Please let me know what you think.

ZD

ZD replied on July 29, 2009 22:12 to the question "How do I create a simple "count of rows" metric?" in Good Data:

Hi Tom,

I recommend you to take a look at my reply to this topic http://getsatisfaction.com/gooddata/t... . Please let me know if you need any further clarification of the COUNT metric syntax.

Best Regards

ZD

ZD replied on July 22, 2009 03:36 to the problem "Cannot create trial account" in Good Data:

What browser do you use? Can you take a look at this post http://getsatisfaction.com/gooddata/t... ?