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This page will always reflect the latest Release Notes, Improvements and Changes made to Nimbus.
Other areas of interest:
- Refer to the Release Note History for previous releases earlier this year.
- Updates on our Nimbus Power BI Template are distributed on request. Please refer to the Nimbus BI Template Release Notes to check for updates.
- Also visit the following sources to stay up-to-date on Nimbus in both features and (upcoming) maintenance.
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Ahead Notice: Restrictive third-party cookie policies
Note: the following scenario regarding browser cookie restrictions may affect both Nimbus Teams Tab, Nimbus Personal App and has been added to the Installation Prerequisites. It is not relevant to this Nimbus release, but was added to the release notes for awareness.
✅ Administrative action MAY be required when (more restrictive future) browser cookie policies affect your Nimbus user login experience. In such cases, please read the following contents carefully.
INC Third-Party Cookie Restriction Workaround
☝ Note of third-party cookie restriction: In 2024 Google Chrome started restricting third-party cookies “by default for 1% of Chrome users to facilitate testing, and then plans to ramp up to 100% of users in H2 2024.” Other browser vendors are likely to follow suit with similar policies.
✅For Tenant Administrators: Most Enterprise users should be excluded from the 1% experiment group. However, Luware recommends that admins proactively use the BlockThirdPartyCookies
and CookiesAllowedForUrls
policies in Chrome to avoid sign-in issues, as described in this MS “Teams doesn't load” help article reference.
Add the following sites to the third party cookie exception list:
[*.]microsoft.com
[*.]microsoftonline.com
[*.]teams.skype.com
[*.]teams.microsoft.com
[*.]sfbassets.com
[*.]skypeforbusiness.com
[*.]luware.cloud
🤔 What are the risk scenarios?
Not following the recommendations by Google involves a risk that Nimbus stops working in Chrome (or other default browsers) when the Nimbus App is launched embedded via MS Teams.
- MS Teams client in your browser: A likely cookie-related risk scenario occurs as you launch launch the Nimbus App or Nimbus Teams Tabs. This triggers a user authentication using 3rd party cookies.
- MS Teams standalone client: Microsoft claims that Nimbus should continue working in the client. Furthermore, Nimbus standalone tab will open and work when "Open app in browser tab" link is used.
To avoid either scenario, we recommend whitelisting cookie-exceptions in your browsers so that Teams can continue continue working with Nimbus. To allow (whitelist) specific URLs in your browser, refer to the steps described in this MS “Teams doesn't load” help article reference.
🤔 What are the effects/problems?
We identified the following issues in regards to cookie-related authentication:
- Warning at startup - A warning message is shown every time when the user start Nimbus in Teams. It seems it's a general error in case of the third party cookies are blocked.
- Authentication popup issue - Returns a Cancelled By User error even if the authentication was not cancelled by user.
20. Jan2025 - 1.105 Release Notes
🔖 This is a BI / Reporting content update, bringing changes and improvements to the Nimbus Power BI Template as well as a larger content Update on our Knowledge Base.
💡No changes were made to the Nimbus production servers or system.
KB Updates:
- Nimbus Reporting - new concept page added to the KB, explain all reporting concepts in more detail and giving readers a comprehensive overview. on all aspects of In-App (live) and historic reporting.
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Facts - Columns and Data Types - Small additions to the KB:
- ServiceSession > IsShortConversation - behavior description added.
- User Session > RingTime - note for unaccounted delays caused by MSFT infrastructure added.
- User Session > ConnectedTime - description updated to distinguish behavior by inbound/outbound ConnectedTime.
- Nimbus Power BI Template Overview - Codes & Tags are now split into two tabs to allow analysis of either the 1st selected or all selected tags and codes. More details in the BI Template Release Notes below.
Power BI Template - Below are detail changes on our Nimbus BI Template Release Notes.
Nimbus BI Template Release Notes
Keep up to date
This page will always reflect the latest Release Notes, improvements and changes made to the Nimbus Power BI Template.
✅ To obtain the latest template file, please contact the Nimbus Helpdesk. Our Customer Success team will be delighted to assist.
INC Reporting Template Disclaimer
DISCLAIMER: Power BI Template updates and support
Note that we continuously develop the template not just visually, but also to reflect the latest OData Feed and Nimbus Reporting Model data warehouse concepts. This also requires our Power BI template to be updated in regular intervals.
While we strive to maintain backwards compatibility, your older stored Power BI file template versions can become outdated over time. This is also due to the physical nature of Power BI files and Power BI App development itself, resulting in Nimbus data not being queried as expected anymore and/or features getting deprecated and replaced over time.
Recommendation: Regular BI Template Updates
As communicated via our Nimbus BI Template Release Notes we are constantly improving our products, including the Nimbus BI template; this results in changes, not just to visible template functionality, but also the underlying queries. Since each improvement can only be delivered in the form of a new physical file, we never make retroactive adjustments to older versions of the template, and thus, we cannot guarantee that an old template file will continue to work indefinitely as expected.
For those reasons we strongly recommend the following:
✅Regularly check the Nimbus BI Template Release Notes for any changes on features that you use.
✅Update your template at regular intervals to ensure seamless interaction with the OData Feed and any Nimbus updates.
Note: Support on customized Templates
While we understand the need and allow our users individually to customize the Nimbus Power BI Template, please understand that this also introduces a huge variety of possible error causes. We gladly take customer feedback to continuously improve our template in general, however this must be done by striking a balance between features, clarity, maintainability and stability.
☝For the reasons above, please understand that Luware Support cannot assist you with your own customized templates.
✅Whenever you encounter errors on your customized templates: Please ensure to test in parallel with the newest BI Template first, before contacting customer support.
Date | Template Version | Changes |
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20-01-2025 | 1.105 |
For additional details in relation to these two pages please refer to Nimbus Power BI Template.
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02-12-2024 | 1.103 |
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25-10-2024 | 1.101 |
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30-09-2024 | 1.100 |
Features:
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09-09-2024 | 1.99 |
Fixes:
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07-08-2024 | 1.97 |
Fixes:
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15-07-2024 | 1.96 |
With this release, we are delighted to announce the latest major update to the Nimbus Power BI template which enables users to set up and take advantage of the powerful functionality in Power BI known as Incremental Refresh. We have updated the queries in the template so that this functionality can be exploited if required. Note that the template parameters no longer offer the option to select “x number of days”: if you need to refresh the template regularly for x number of days, please set up the Incremental Refresh functionality as explained under in PBI Incremental Refresh.
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Temporary limitation:
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24-06-2024 | 1.95 |
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13-05-2024 | 1.93 |
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25-03-2024 | 1.91 |
Features:
Description of the new measures available in the Nimbus Reporting Model page and in the template (hovering with the mouse on the measure).
Fixes:
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26-02-2024 | 1.90 |
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06-02-2024 | 1.89.1 |
Alignment of the Nimbus Power BI Template with the Historic Reporting features made available with 1.89 Latest Release Notes
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03-11-2023 | 1.84 v5 |
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04-10-2023 | 1.84 |
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