Release notes
This article documents the ongoing releases of Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) features and products.
April 2024
Cognite is moving to a quarterly release cadence. The next main release is scheduled for June 2024.
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
In Charts:
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To assess monitoring jobs, use Alerts in selected time frame. This section displays the number of alerts that would have been triggered based on your settings. Use this info to determine appropriate alert threshold values. (Beta)
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For a detailed view of time series values at a specific moment, select Slider from the tools menu. Use this setting to compare different time points and observe trend changes.
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The maximum number of raw data points in a chart increases from 500 to 100,000.
On Canvas:
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We're introducing a new user experience for finding and adding data to a canvas. Select Add data, enter a query in the search field, then use the left sidebar to filter the search results by category and the Filters button to refine each category. This user experience aligns with how you find data in CDF.
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To collaborate with colleagues who haven't signed in to CDF, share your canvas by entering their email address under Share. They'll get an email invitation with a link to the canvas, and will need to authenticate to get access.
In Search:
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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Sort names or counts in ascending or descending order () in the search results, in the list of categories, and on the data on the search details pages.
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The sidebar has two sections: a set of default categories that apply to all data models, and a list with other categories that adapt to each company's specific data model.
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If you search using Copilot, it identifies relevant categories and applies filters to the search results. You can modify the filters or select a different category to adjust the results.
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To visualize data on an X- and Y-axis, select the statistics icon on the Copilot results page. Note that this feature is only available for the categories listed under Other categories.
For setting up 3D content:
Set thresholds for your 3D environment to highlight important attributes or criteria and identify patterns and anomalies in your scenes. Visualize the thresholds in the 3D scene by applying a color overlay.
For access management:
We're introducing group membership within groups in Manage Access.
To give access, admins previously had to create groups in their IdP, add users to these groups, and then link the IdP groups to groups in CDF. Now, admins can directly add users to groups within CDF, streamlining the access management process. You can also use this feature when you create or edit a group.
When you've added the required capabilities to the group, select an option under members:
- Externally managed: Provide the group ID of a group with users in your IdP. This is the existing solution.
- List of users lets you add and remove users. The listed users will have access given by the capabilities in the group.
- All user accounts gives access to capabilities in the group for all user accounts in the organization. Use this option carefully, it may lead to unintended access granted to every user in the organization.
For data onboarding:
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Use the new Cognite Kafka extractor to extract data from Apache Kafka.(Beta)
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Use the Cognite File extractor to extract documents from OpenText Documentum and OpenText Documentum D2. You'll also find these improvements to the file extractor:
- In the configuration file:
- Use the new
filter
section for advanced filtering logic. - Use the new
delete-behavior
section to detect hard or soft-deleted files. - Use the new
metadata-to-raw
section to ingest file metadata to a table in CDF RAW.
- Use the new
- For connections to Sharepoint Online sites:
- Connect to multiple sites using the
paths
parameters. - Configure sites by pasting the URL directly into the configuration file.
- Dynamically discover sites by adding several sites to the
filter
section.
- Connect to multiple sites using the
- The file extractor now supports ingesting files larger than 5 GiB.
- In the configuration file:
InField
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
- Manage columns. Customize the Overview page.
Add, hide, or rearrange the columns to view the information that's more relevant to you.
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Work order details. Combined the Assets and Operations tabs.
Now, you can find information about assets and tasks to be performed under one tab. Open work order details and select the Operations tab to see field workers' tasks and the work center information. Expand the task to see if it applies to several assets. -
Overview filters. Save your favorite filters and use them as default.
On the Overview page, use filters to get the most relevant data and save the filter selection to use next time. You can apply one of the saved filters based on your needs or set the filter as default.
InRobot
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
- Robot selection. Select a robot when needed.
Before, you had to select a robot when you started using the application or switched from one tab to another. Now, the robot you used the last time will be selected automatically, and you can switch the robot at any time.
Resolved issues and minor updates
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Filter settings are kept while you browse the details tab in Data Explorer and Search.
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The filtering logic for
And
andOR
operations are adjusted in the Data Explorer.
Deprecated and retired features
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Cognite Documentum extractoris deprecated from April 2, 2024, and will also be retired from April 2, 2024. Support for OpenText Documentum and OpenText Documentum D2 has been integrated intoCognite File extractor. -
Support for Python 3.8 as the default Python runtime in
Cognite Functionsis deprecated from March 11, 2024 and will be retired from October 1, 2024. The default Python runtime inCognite Functionsis updated to version 3.11.
See also: Overview of deprecated and retired features.
March 2024
Watch the summary in the product release spotlight.
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
On the Canvas:
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Add charts to your canvas from the Add data option on the canvas or from Open in Industrial canvas on a chart. The chart on the canvas includes any threshold values and time series calculations. To edit a chart, select Open in Charts from a time series. (Beta)
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Create plans and diagrams, such as cause map diagrams, by adding sticky notes using the dots around an existing sticky on the canvas. Drag a dot to create lines between the sticky notes. (Beta)
In Search:
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If you browse a 3D model from the search page, you'll find additional options for navigation and visualization:
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Orbit mode: Rotate around objects to see all sides.
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Fly mode: Look around the exterior or interior of a closed room.
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Move instantly to any spot by double-clicking anywhere in the 3D model.
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Color overlay: Use this option on the toolbar to highlight objects on the model. Your CDF admin predefines the options on this list. (Privat beta)
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For data onboarding:
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Data workflows is a new managed process orchestration service to coordinate interdependent processes, such as CDF Transformations, Cognite Functions, requests to the CDF APIs, and other data processes. (Beta)
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By aligning all 3D content, such as point clouds and CAD models, in a location, the users will get better context and understanding of the physical conditions of a location. You do this by configuring a 3D scene under Set up 3D content. You need a scene to view 3D models from the search page.
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Run CDF Transformations incrementally for transformations that read data from a CDF data model. CDF will only read and transform data that has changed since the last run. (Coming soon)
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Assign units from the CDF unit catalog to time series instances and to
float32
andfloat64
base type for data models. For unit-aware time series and data modeling properties, you can request unit information and consume data in a compatible unit. CDF handles the unit conversion automatically. -
If you're modeling data using the CDF user interface, you can now see how relationships of data is stored in containers, what data can be queried (the views/data models), how graphs are constructed (containers), the relationships between data objects (edges and direct relations), and how these are consumed (from views and data models) by queries.
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In-product guides are available for onboarding new users to
Chartsand the 3D view on the search page.
For time series:
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Subscribe to one or multiple time series to automatically obtain the latest data points or changes to data points for one or more time series. This is useful if you keep a chart or a dashboard up to date with the latest time series values or need data points to perform calculations.
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Time series data points now display data quality status codes to help you determine how to treat uncertain data points and better visualize data when you're plotting data points in a chart. The implementation follows the OPC UA standard, and both the Cognite OPC UA and PI extractors support this feature. (Beta)
Jupyter Notebooks
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Open Jupyter Notebook directly from the CDF staging area (RAW) and the data model user interface. (Beta)
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Jupyter Notebook copilot is improved, and better understands CDF and the Cognite Python SDK. (Beta)
New Python data modeling SDK generator
- We're introducing Pygen, a Python data modeling SDK generator. Pygen is a Python package and a command-line interface for generating Python SDKs from CDF data models. (Beta)
InField
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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Conditions. Set conditions to tasks.
Add actions for the field workers to perform depending on the task state. In the first implementation, you can show a message with instructions, questions, etc. when adding a template task. -
Device mode. Set a default mode for
InField.
Switch to a mobile or a desktop version of the application on your device and make it the default. The setting doesn't affect the mode of other devices. -
Overview filters. Search and filter the Overview page.
Search for checklists and work orders by name and filter on the checklist status. -
Checklist date. View the checklist creation date.
In the list of checklists, check the date when each checklist was created, along with the day of the week and time. -
Schedule. Add monthly and yearly intervals.
Create daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedules for checklists to perform at regular intervals. -
Templates. Hide the templates list.
Hide the panel with the list of all created templates while creating a template, adding tasks, and viewing asset information. -
Offline mode. Improved data storage.
If the users have a slow internet connection for more than 5 seconds, the application switches to offline mode. Users can upload the data when the connection is back. -
Observations. Updated observations type and priority.
Select a priority option from 1: Immediate to 5: Greater than 8 weeks and one of 5 observation types (M1, M2, M4, M5, M8).
InRobot
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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Video. Record videos of up to 60 seconds of assets in motion. For example, record a video of a water pump to see the water flow.
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Waypoints. See the direction of the robot’s movements on the 3D map with the help of cone-shaped waypoints.
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Move map to model. Move the waypoints to the 3D model. Adjust the position of waypoints if needed.
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Media preview. In Reports, see which runs include images and videos.
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Filter missions. In Reports, search a mission by name to find the mission of your interest faster.
Resolved issues and minor updates
Cognite Data Fusion
In Charts:
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If you manually set the range of an axis, an indicator and a button appears where you can reset to automatic range mode.
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Function descriptions are now available in all the languages CDF support.
On the Canvas:
- You can now paste local files directly onto the Canvas using Ctrl + V (
Windows) or Cmd + V (macOS).
In search:
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If you're using CDF in Japanese, the kana-kanji conversion now works correctly.
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The related asset count on the asset details page now shows all related assets. Previously, this count had a limit at 1000.
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Search for events using metadata ID is improved.
InField
In InField, we've resolved these issues:
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You won’t see information about a previously selected asset when switching from one checklist to another.
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After the mobile users enter a numerical value, the application won’t jump to the next numerical reading and skip the tasks in between.
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When adding a description to an observation, the users will stay on the same step unless they select the next or previous step.
Deprecated and retired features
See Overview of deprecated and retired features.
Cognite API updates
To see changes to the Cognite API, visit the API changelog.
January 2024
Watch the summary in the product release spotlight.
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
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We're introducing in-product tours to help new users get started using CDF. The tours start automatically the first time you open the CDF homepage, the
Searchpage, theCanvas, andInField. -
You can now access
Data Explorer,Canvas, andChartsdirectly from the updated CDF homepage. Select Data management to see data engineering and administrative features. -
On the
Canvas:-
See and restore previous versions of your canvases from Open canvas history. Canvas checks for updates and stores a new version every 5 minutes. You can't edit previous canvas versions.
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You'll receive an email with a link to the canvas if a colleague mentions you in a comment.
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The toolbar has new shapes for industrial data.
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Lock a canvas to prevent unwanted changes with the Lock canvas option under the ... icon.
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Select the copilot () icon within a document to use AI to find or summarize information in the documents. (Beta).
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If you subscribe to monitoring alerts in
Charts, the email notifications now include an investigation button that brings you directly to the chart and an option to unsubscribe to the emails. We've also made these improvements:-
Edit existing monitoring jobs with the new Edit button.
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Select among multiple new colors for time series diagram lines.
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Highlight the threshold line on a time series by clicking a monitoring job.
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On the
Searchpage (Beta), we've made these improvements:-
The search results show directly linked data from the asset hierarchy data model and the CDF data model framework.
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If you're using the asset hierarchy data model, contextualized data is based on relationships, annotations, and direct links.
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If you're using the flexible data model framework, contextualized data is based on annotations to asset hierarchy resources, edges, direct relations, and strings references.
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To continue analyzing and collaborating on the data, select Open in Industrial canvas from
Data ExplorerandSearch. -
If you open an engineering diagram in
Search, orange-colored boxes indicate links to other files. Purple-colored boxes indicate links to other data objects, such as additional information about equipment. -
Select the
Copilot() icon within a document to find or summarize information in the documents. (Beta).
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In the 3D view on the
Searchpage, we've made these improvements:-
From the side panel, you can filter all 3D objects within a 3D model and the data directly linked to the 3D object, such as work orders and sensor data. The 3D objects are highlighted in the model and have a preview card with directly linked items.
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On the preview card, you can open directly linked files, such as engineering diagrams, and see a file preview on top of the 3D object.
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In CDF data modeling, the expressiveness of the industrial knowledge graph is extended with the new relation type
reverse direct relation
. Defining types that have properties that are nodes pointing to the current type improves consistency and query ergonomics. -
The
Cognite SAP extractornow supports multiple SAP sources, SAP RFC and SOAP endpoints, multiple CDF resource type destinations, and multiple keys when ingesting to CDF RAW. Note also that the configuration schema is updated to support multiple SAP sources. -
Under
Match resources to asset, you'll find these changes in the user interface:-
On the Select source page in Quick match, the filtering options for data sets now only display the data sets containing the selected resource type.
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On the Review results page in Quick match, you'll now see the current asset to which the resource is linked to alongside the suggested asset.
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The 3D matching option is moved to the Select Source page, and you'll find 3D node among the resource types for selection.
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When you upload 3D models to CDF, you can use AI to enhance point clouds with classifications and object detection. Navigate to Integrate > Upload 3D, then select the icon .
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We're introducing request and concurrency limits for the CDF RAW service.
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Assign units to time series and numerical properties in data models. The industrial knowledge graph stores numerical data with associated units selected from the built-in unit catalog. Then, perform unit conversion on query time for time series data points, which saves you from having to handle conversion.
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In the
Cognite JavaScript SDK, you can retrieve data points with granularity set as a month. -
The Industrial Data Science library is now open-source and open to external contributions. See https://github.com/cognitedata/indsl.
InField
The features described in this section are currently only available to selected customers.
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Item to check. Add extra items to be checked to the task.
Describe what needs to be done and add alternative responses (action buttons). Each response can be linked to a task status. When working on the checklist, select the response with the linked status. The task status will automatically change to the status linked to the response. -
Bulk status change. Change the status of the remaining tasks in the checklist.
When working on a checklist, bulk change the statuses of the remaining tasks. You can do that for the tasks inside and outside the group and only once. -
Task description. Provide a description or step-by-step instructions to explain what field workers need to do when working on a checklist.
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Observations. Provide asset observations.
Field workers can create observations when working on a checklist or by clicking the menu button > Create observation. -
Schedule. Formerly Task intervals.
Specify the start date for the checklist to open automatically and set your tasks to repeat on daily or weekly intervals. -
Message. Enter a message or a question that requires a reply.
Ask operators to write a response to your request, question, message, etc., when working on a checklist.