Macrobond 1.30
Enhanced data exploration workflow
The new “Quick views” provides superior dataset exploration. You can now select ready-made templates combining charts and tables in one screen, via the mouse or through keyboard shortcuts.
With a time series selected, the Presentation Actions box now allows for several operations to open up pre-defined templates in a “Quick View” tab:
By popular request, this Quick View tab includes the option to open a chart and table in the same view:
And, even more conveniently, these functions can be assigned keyboard shortcuts in the Quick View settings:
Control the graph size to fit to your publication requirements
We’ve made several changes to give you more flexibility to control the size of the graph area, making it easier to prepare charts for publication purposes.
The main feature now available to you is the “Uniform pane size” setting. This will make all panes in a chart the same size, regardless of how many panes you use, and the size of titles and footers.
This is available in the settings for the Graph area (also in Style sheets) as well as in the Graph layout dialog.
Additionally, you now have full control over margin indentations from top, left, right, and bottom under Properties for Chart.
Margin controls now make it possible for you to control the positioning of the edge of the chart, regardless of the size and position of other elements like titles.
These two features combined empower you to control the spatial formatting of your charts like never before.
Additional ways to analyse rates and % data
You can now choose to use additive rebase in slice analytics. Each value of the timeseries in the underlying segment will be subtracted with the first value of the segment minus the value you input. This is particularly useful when you want to have result of each segment starting at 0.
Improved readability for charts with multiple panes
You can now choose to display the legend text per chart pane, so that each chart pane will have a floating legend text flagging series displayed in their corresponding pane.
Making bar charts more readable
Now the column headers and footers will wrap the text for column width adjustment without having to hard code the line break in the text box.
Backfill history using discontinued series
Macrobond may be required to create a new time series with a recent historical start point if there is a change made to the methodology of the time series or any other change.
Users seeking to extend the historical data of their time series can now easily locate related discontinued time series by right-clicking within the contextual menu. This functionality allows for seamless addition of these series to documents, enabling the extension of historical context for the main time series they are using.
Other use cases than backfilling history can be achieved using this feature.
Support for Chinese language
The general release of the application version in Chinese is now available to all users running v1.29 and above.
You can now opt for Macrobond in Chinese by changing your database language in your application settings:
If your application version does not allow you to switch the database language yourself, ask your Macrobond representative to activate the Chinese application for you.
The tree structure and time series descriptions are now available in Chinese:
