askiavista 6.0.3.9

As the askiavista user base keeps growing, vista Administrators have asked if we could provide broader and more flexible usage statistics. Well, as we start this new year, we’re delivering a brand new Activity monitoring with vastly improved monitoring capabilities.

Available by default to askiavista Administrators, it will enable them to monitor: surveys, users, groups, companies, servers, errors, as well as the different actions and types of analyses that their end-users are running on the platform. Furthermore, for those who are administering multi-server askiavista instances, the ability to see statistics per server(s) will further improve your ability to manage performance with survey and user loads, as well as plan for maintenance or further server provisioning to scale up.

Check out the following screenshot to get an idea of the information you can expect to see on your server:

And the good news doesn’t stop here… We decided to enable all these new Activity monitoring capabilities in the API, which means developers can include these Activity statistics in their web applications and dashboards!

For a full overview of the options available for the Activity monitoring please refer to the specifications; developers can refer to the updated API documentation.

Another area we’ve worked on in 6.0.3.9 is load-balancing for multi-server architectures. When an end-user logs in, askiavista can now “automagically” assign the user’s session’s analytical work to be handled by the “best” AVS-server available in the pool. Basically, askiavista monitors the work-load of the servers it has available, and will assign a user session’s analyses to the server which at that point in time happens to be the least solicited, and thereby significantly improve the response time for returning those analyses results to the user.

Finally, 6.0.3.9 brings many new features, and various bug fixes (see our version history for full details)

• Added support for Nested Edges
• Added support to pick-up a question’s Long caption when the Short caption is empty
• Added support for dynamic Universe captions for ??U??
• Added a select|deselect all button in the Create filter / response window
• Added the option Appears like a stat calculation for Calculations by script
• Added a place-holder page which is displayed when accessing deleted Portfolios
• Added support to show Raw Data for Date variables
• Added a new Activity page to monitor application usage statistics (accessible via the API)
• Added support to set a Survey’s Properties’ default Level to: {Row level} or {Column level}
• Added a warning message when switching from AskiaScript‘s Advanced mode to Assisted mode
• Improved fail-over and load-balancing features for AVS farming
• Improved Calculation by script to show a Column total for a variable outside the Level (Wave), ie. return the Interview Level Column total
• Improved Number formatting, by ensuring it is not applied on Significance and Column Significativity
• Improved support for Cleanup scripts‘ search & replace functionality
• Updated the URL-link from within askiavista to our online help documentation
• Updated askia.config documentation
• Upgraded LDAP SSO from v5 to v6