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Overhauled Design
Periscope 2.3 has been completely redesigned with a new "flat" style. This design focuses on minimalism and includes completely new icons and animations across all viewlets. In addition to the new style we've optimized several areas of Periscope to increase speed and reduce any choppiness.
Weather Widget
Live weather can now be viewed on your dashboard with the new Weather Widget. This widget displays the current weather conditions at the top-right of the dashbaord dashboard as well as a forecast view that shows seven days of data.
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Periscope can now integrate directly with Energy Star Portfolio Manager and display property scores in the dashboard. The alxEnergyStar driver can pull utiltiy utility bill data from the Energy Star database into AX and display the data in Persicope Periscope or other applications. The driver can also push meter data from Niagara directly into properties created in Portfolio Manager. This automated process can save an Energy Manager a significant amount of time since utility bills will no longer have to be manually input.
Energy Star data and scores can also be displayed directly in Periscope including the ability to Rank properties based off of their score.
History Grouping Updates
Add/Edit/Delete History Groups + Rollups in the Trends tab
Smart Rollup
Batch rollups
Improved Drilldowns
User Manager Usability
The History Grouping feature has been overhauled with a focus on ease of use. Virtual Histories (rollups or conversions) can now me edited and deleted from the Trends tab in PeriscopeConfig. Rollups can now be created on the Trends tab (once the user selects more than one trend) rather than having to go to the History Groups tab.
Smart Rollup
"Smart Rollups" is a feature of the Periscope Config History Grouping tab and is a massive time saver. This feature allows a user to roll up an entire history group from the root level and each child group will also be rolled up into separate trends. For example, a history group of region>state>city>building could easily have hundreds of different folders representing each level of the tree. In Periscope 2.2, rolling up each folder of the tree would take a considerable effort. In Periscope 2.3 the user can select the top of the tree and automate the process of rolling up the entire tree up to the top level.
In addition the rollups have been heavily optimized to handle large nested history groups.
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Improved Smart Drilldowns
Smart Drilldowns were introduced in 2.2 for a select number of viewlets and allowed a user to "drill down" into the time range of a selected trend. In the screenshot below the second viewlet "Dual Axis" was created automatically by clicking on the Kennedy ranking column, and clicking the column chart. This feature has been expanded to include the Dual Axis Viewlet and Year Over Year viewlet.
New in 2.3 is the ability to drill down into the trend hierarchy instead of always drilling down into the time range (like above). ... TODO
User Manager Usability
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Ranking Viewlet Updates
The Ranking Chart has several new features which assist users creating competitions. The Ranking Chart can now run baselines against previous time frames (similar to the baseline viewlet). For example, you can now show the percent change from This Month vs. Last Month, This Year vs. Last Year, and many more. In addition the Ranking Chart can display icons for the top three trends, including ribbons or trophies.
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Circular Gauges now support a user-supplied background image. This feature can use any image from the web and can quickly personalize a user's dashbaord.