2025 Releases

These release notes describe enhancements to CONNECT visualization, and fixes and known issues where applicable.

Resolved issues included here are the highest priority issues reported by customers, not a complete list of fixes.

December 2025 release 2

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Industrial AI Assistant: The following enhancements are now available:

  • Engineering Content - Users can search across all engineering entity types and relationships. Content search has been improved within documents.

  • Asset Queries - Users can request lists of assets (and their associated streams and properties), based on a specified criteria. Lists can be downloaded.

• Dynamic column adjustment for grid visualizations: When the page width changes, grid visualizations change the number of columns displayed more smoothly and dynamically. Depending on the width of the page, they display content in six, three, two, or one columns.

  Previously grid visualizations could only switch between six columns and one column.

  For details, see Create a new visualization.

• Gauge and Card content items enhancement: The Gauge and Card content items in the Event Visualization category now include a toggle button called Normal state above target. This toggle controls how the system interprets target thresholds for color display, determining when green or red appears in the visualization.

December 2025 release 1

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Embedded visualization enhancements: The following enhancements are introduced for visualizations that are added to experiences or other visualizations:

  • Persistent context integration: Embedded visualizations used in other visualizations or experiences now fully support time context and asset context. This allows for fast, seamless embedding of visualizations for easier and more flexible content creation. For details about adding a visualization to a pane in an experience, see Add content to panes in your navigation items. For details about creating and adding content to a visualization, see Create a new visualization.

  • Interactive embedded content: Engage directly with content in visualizations embedded in experiences or other visualizations, whether you’re viewing or designing. In the experience designer, interaction is supported for grid visualizations (canvas visualizations remain view-only). For details on interacting with content, see Interact with content in visualizations and experiences.

    These changes mean that embedded visualizations are now fully supported with rich features that persist wherever they’re embedded. This allows you more options than ever to quickly and easily realize your experiences and visualizations.

    Note: Adding a canvas visualization to a grid visualization is supported. Other combinations of visualizations are not supported for embedding.

• Hyperlinks for text in canvas visualizations: You can now add hyperlinks to text created with the text tool in canvas visualizations. For details, see Canvas visualization tools and properties.

• Save queries in the query builder: You can now save, load, and manage queries in the query builder.

• Multi state graphic: The discrete status graphic has been updated to the Multi state graphic. This can now symbolize up to 8 distinct states. You can select from text styles, shapes, or indicators to visualize and communicate states.

  This graphic continues to support discrete states when configured with a value type of Expression or Discrete.

• Specific graphic names display in grid visualizations: When you add a graphic to a grid visualization, its specific name is displayed as the title of the card. Previously "Industrial Graphic" displayed as the card title for every graphic.

• Data point limit: There is now a limit of 30 data points per visualization to maintain performance and ensure consistent, responsive rendering.

• Industrial AI Assistant window doesn't auto close: The Industrial AI Assistant pane now remains open until you close it. This prevents unexpected auto-closing.

  For details on using Industrial AI Assistant, see Chat with Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

• Canvas visualization thumbnail shows content items: The thumbnail that displays for saved canvas visualizations now includes content items that are added to that visualization. Previously only graphics added to the visualization would display in the thumbnail.

Resolved issues

The following issues are fixed in this release:

• Case - 962610941 (Defect - 4311742) - Couldn't remove canvas visualizations from a grid visualization: When a canvas visualization was added to a grid visualization, the button to delete it from the visualization didn't function.

• Case - 962623962 (Defect - 4328539) - Deselecting "Show card" for embedded grid visualization pane in experience caused error: When a grid visualization was added to an experience, if Show card was unselected, an error occurred and the visualization was replaced with a gray "loading" state.

Known issues

The following are known issues in this release:

• Issues with embedded visualizations in experiences: The following issues occur with visualizations that are added to experiences:

  • If a visualization doesn't follow the experience's asset and time context, and you select a custom asset context and time context while viewing the experience, then remove the asset context, both the asset context and time context revert to the saved values for the visualization. Only the asset context should revert to the saved value; the time context should not be affected by changes to the asset context.

  • The "View full screen" button appears for content in visualizations embedded in experiences. This feature doesn't work correctly and the button will be removed in the future.

  • If you select content in a grid visualization, the entire grid visualization will appear to be selected. Ignore this.

  • When a visualization can no longer display in an experience because it has been deleted or made private, its context menu still appears.

  • When viewing an experience, if you select content inside a visualization, then try to select a visualization in another pane, the visualization is not selected. As a workaround, select any area of the experience that isn't a visualization, then select the visualization.

November 2025 release

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Query builder enhancements: The following new features have been added to the query builder:

  • Export query results: Use the Export button to export query results to an Excel or CSV format file.

  • Add and manage columns: Use the Manage Columns button to add and arrange columns in the query results.

• Zoom tool on line charts: Zooming operation is now supported for line charts in visualizations. For details, see Zoom on Line Charts or Stacked Line Charts.

• Column chart enhancement: The Auto Column Type automatically switches the chart to a hourly or daily view depending on the range of time for the data displayed in the chart. For details, see Column Chart.

Resolved issues

The following issues are fixed in this release:

• Case - 962480456 (Defect - 4284896) - CONNECT visualization pages showed a section of whitespace until the browser was refreshed. On occasion, whitespace filled the bottom half of the screen until the browser tab was reloaded.

• Case - 962624822 (Defect - 4333243) -Two properties of an asset mapped to the same stream could not be viewed simultaneously in grid visualizations. The issue has been resolved; both properties display as expected.

Known issues

The following is a known issue in this release:

• When interacting with 3D models, tooltips may appear after mouse-up actions and remain visible while rotating the model. This does not affect functionality, and an update will address this behavior in an upcoming release.

October 2025 release 2

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Full screen in canvas visualizations: The full screen option is now available for content items in canvas visualizations.

  For information about browsing visualizations, see Browse and manage visualizations.

• Adding streams disabled for graphics that follow the asset context: When Follow asset context is enabled for a graphic and an asset context or asset reference is set, the “Streams” type is now disabled by default when adding data.

  For information about adding graphics to a visualization or experience, see Add graphics to a visualization.

• Content item options pane removed from experiences: The content item options pane is no longer shown when viewing content items in an experience. This applies only to the content items that showed an options pane to viewers. The features related to this pane are no longer available for viewers of experiences. This affects the following content item features:

  • Line Chart: The Add cursor feature.

  • 3D Viewer: The Details and Visual Query features. This includes the Actions menu, which is accessed through Details.

  • Document Viewer: The Details and Markup features. This includes the Actions menu, which is accessed through Details.

• Pane names shortcut: In experiences, you can now press the P key to show or hide pane names.

  For information about configuring the pane name in the pane properties, see Configure pane properties.

• Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text in graphics and text box: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text displays correctly in graphics and the text box that is available in canvas visualizations. This applies to text that is entered by the user or that is coming from the data. For text to display correctly, the browser must be set to the matching language.

  These languages continue to be supported in the other applicable areas of the application.

• Video files supported in document viewer: The Document Viewer content item now supports video files. Files can be up to 150 MB. Supported formats are MP4, MOV, WMV, and AVI.

• Horizontal orientation for time selector: When configuring a time selector content item in an experience, you can now select between vertical and horizontal orientation.

• Easily find deprecated content when browsing visualizations: When browsing visualizations, there is now a Deprecated button, which shows the following deprecated content:

  • Standalone content items. The ability to create standalone content items (content items that are not in a visualization or experience) was removed in the February 2025 release.

  • Visualizations created with the old canvas. The old canvas was replaced in the August 2025 release.

    If any of this content is still in use, it is recommended that you re-create it; deprecated content will no longer be viewable in CONNECT visualization after January 2026.

October 2025 release 1

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Updated Power BI content item: The property labels for the Power BI content item were updated for enhanced clarity. Tooltips now appear on hover over for the properties.

Resolved issues

The following issues are fixed in this release:

• Case - 960670745 (Defect - 4263907) - CONNECT visualization showed a value of zero for streams returning no data: When a stream returned no data (for example it had null or bad values), a value of zero was shown in CONNECT visualization. Now no data is shown if there is no value.

• Case - 962467002 (Defect - 4250636) - Dynamic properties in the map content item did not update automatically: In the map content item, dynamic properties didn't update. This issue affected location data, conditional configuration items, and the value shown in the properties pane after selecting a pin on the map.

• Case - 962467002 (Defect - 4251828) - The map content item could fail to load content until the browser page was refreshed.

• Case - 960657045 (Defect - 4215711) - Line charts with multiple y-axes did not display historical data beyond the default time range. The chart failed to display historical data when the time range was extended to 7 days or more. Single y-axis charts were unaffected by the issue.

• Industrial AI Assistant failed to answer questions if no CONNECT data services assets were defined. This limitation has been addressed and resolved.

September 2025 release 2

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Improvements for multi Y-axis in line charts: The following enhancements were made to line charts to improve readability. These apply when Multi is selected as the Y-axis type:

  • The labels now display on the left and right rather than the top.

  • No more than six data points are displayed at once. If more than six data points are selected, the first six are shown.

    This affects both the line chart in the Event Visualization content category and the line chart in the Visualization content category.

• Faster refresh rate for status board: The status board content item now refreshes every 30 seconds instead of every 60 seconds.

• Asset Information Management Advanced (AIM-A) integration enhancements: The following enhancements were made to AIM-A integration:

  • Query builder filtering and sorting: Sorting by column and filtering are now available for results in the query builder.

  • Download documents: The toolbar for the document viewer now includes a download option. Select this to download the content in the document as a zip file.

Resolved issues

The following issues are fixed in this release:

• (Defect - 4090846) - Save confirmation message on exiting the visualization designer: When exiting the visualization designer, the following message appeared whether or not there were unsaved changes:

  You have unsaved changes! If you leave, your changes will be lost.

  This message now only appears in the visualization designer if there if there are unsaved changes.

  This issue still occurs in the experience designer.

• (Defect - 4124965) - In the Map content item, asset properties showed GUID instead of name: In the Map content item, when configuring conditional color, size, or rotation, the variable dropdown showed the GUIDs of asset properties instead of their names.

September 2025 release 1

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• KPI Card content item improvements: The KPI Card content item in the Asset Efficiency category presents data more clearly, has updated UI labels for Downtime and Material Produced KPIs, and includes a unit of measure–converted summary in the Material Produced KPI.

• Canvas visualization improvements:

  • The edit mode toolbar now includes the swap button.

  • The following keyboard shortcuts are available when a content item is selected:

    • Press Delete to delete the content item.

    • Use the arrow keys to move the content item.

      For details about canvas-specific tools, see Canvas visualization tools and properties.

• Industrial AI Assistant improvements:

  • Industrial AI Assistant is upgraded to the GPT 4.1 model, resulting in improved consistency.

  • Improved support for queries in languages other than English. When a question is asked in a supported non-English language, the result is now returned in that language.

    For details on using Industrial AI Assistant, see Chat with Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

Known issues

The following is a known issue in this release:

• When exiting the visualization or experience designer, the following message appears whether or not there are unsaved changes:

  You have unsaved changes! If you leave, your changes will be lost.

  Ignore this message if you have saved your changes.

August 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Context-oriented visualization workflows: Visualization workflows have been updated to place more focus on an asset context and time context shared across the content items:

  • Asset context replaces the shared entity, and the time context replaces the time bar.

  • Each content item follows the asset context and time context by default, if applicable. This can be adjusted in the content item’s properties.

  • You can now set the asset context and time context in the Create Visualization dialog. These can be changed in edit mode with the asset context and time context buttons.

  • If an asset context is set for the visualization, the asset context button is automatically available to viewers of the visualization. They can use this button to change the asset context, similar to changing the shared entity in previous releases.

  • Time context is always available to viewers of the visualization. It no longer needs to be enabled in the visualization properties as it did in previous releases.

  • The save dialog has been updated with properties separated into distinct sections for increased clarity.

    For details, see Create a new visualization.

• Content items in experiences respond to context: Content items in experiences that are configured to follow the asset context use the navigation item’s asset reference for their data source. For details, see the Assign asset reference section in Add and manage navigation items.

• Canvas visualization replacement: The old canvas visualization has been replaced by a new canvas visualization with enhanced capabilities. The new capabilities include the following:

  • Text boxes can be added to the visualization.

  • Customize the background color or upload a background image.

  • Zooming in and out is supported when viewing the visualization.

  • Set the size of the canvas automatically, or specify a width and height in pixels.

  • When content items overlap, choose which is on top with controls for bringing content items forward or sending them back.

  • When resizing content, hold Shift to maintain the current aspect ratio.

    For details, see Canvas visualization tools and properties.

    Old canvas visualizations will continue to be viewable until January 2026. However, they cannot be edited. If you need to make changes to an old canvas visualization, delete it and replace it with a new canvas visualization.

• Best fit line in XY plot: A best fit line can now be added to XY Plot content items. The best fit line displays the overall trend of the data points in the graph. To show the best fit line, enable Show best fit line in the content item’s properties.

Announcements

• As part of the ongoing effort to revise functionality based on customer feedback, some older functionality will no longer be supported starting in January 2026. At that time, the following items will no longer be available:

  • Standalone content items. The ability to create standalone content items was removed in the February 2025 release. Replace these with visualizations.

  • Graphics added prior to the May 2025 release. These were replaced with an updated library of graphics. See the May 2025 release notes for a list of which updated graphics replace the old graphics.

  • Canvas visualizations created prior to the August 2025 release. The canvas has been replaced with a revised canvas in this release.

    These items will continue to be viewable in CONNECT visualization until January 2026. You should re-create any existing items that are still in use before then.

Known issues

The following are known issues in this release:

• Adding comments and cursors to line charts is not supported for experiences, but the buttons to add them still show.

• When arranging overlapping content in canvas visualizations, content items always appear on top of text and graphics. Text always appears on top of graphics.

• In experiences, the Pan and Zoom interaction mode is not supported. The Interaction mode dropdown in pane properties should be left at the default, None.

• The following issues occur when using the new canvas visualization with an iPad:

  • When viewing the visualization and zooming in or out on a content item, the entire page may zoom in or out.

  • Panning may occur when using the Select tool.

  • When rearranging content, sometimes it does not move.

July 2025 release 2

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Chart legends now editable: The names that display for streams and asset stream refs can be edited for content items in the Visualization category. This allows you to use names that make your charts easier to understand. This applies when creating or modifying a visualization or experience.

  For details on adding or editing content items in the Visualization category, see Visualization content category.

• KPI Card content item: The Asset Efficiency content category now includes the KPI Card content item. This content item displays different types of key performance indicators (KPI) for an asset.

• Multi OEE KPI and Utilization Waterfall content items generally available: The Utilization Waterfall and Multi OEE KPI content items in the Asset Efficiency category are now available for all users. Previously these were available as a preview.

• Map: The Other content category now includes the Map content item. This new content item displays CONNECT data and assets as configurable markers on an interactive global map. The Map includes several options like display format, starting location and zoom level, and includes toggleable overlays for weather and traffic.

• Asset Information Management Advanced (AIM-A) integration generally available: AIM-A integration is now available for all users. This allows you to visualize your AIM-A data in CONNECT visualization. For more details, see View your Asset Information Management Advanced (AIM-A) data.

• Cursors on line charts GA: Cursors on line charts are now available and fully supported for all users. Cursors can be used to select a section of the time shown on a line chart. You can then view statistics about each stream's values in the chart for the selected section of time.

  For details, see Use Dual Cursors on Line Charts.

• Time context in experiences: Content in experiences now has the Enabled time context property. When this is enabled, content uses the time set by the new time selector content item. This allows editors and viewers to easily change the time for multiple items in the experience at once.

  For details, see Create experiences.

• Use Industrial AI Assistant to create visualizations: You can use Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview) to generate visualizations for the data associated with your assets. The assistant will assess the scope of a request, identify the available streams, group them according to their units of measurement, and then determine the most appropriate visualization to use for each. For more details, see Use Industrial AI Assistant to create visualizations.

July 2025 release 1

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Process Reliability (Special*) (preview): The Asset Efficiency content category now includes the Process Reliability (Special*) content item. This content item displays these KPIs for Process Reliability: Process Reliability, Planned Downtime, Unplanned Downtime, Quality Loss, and Rate Loss.

  This feature is available as a preview to a limited set of customers. For more information about this feature and its availability, contact your sales representative, and watch the release notes for an announcement of its general availability.

• Cursors on line charts (preview): Adding cursors is now supported for line charts in visualizations. Cursors can be used to select a section of the time shown on a line chart. You can then view statistics about each stream's values in the chart for the selected section of time.

  This is similar to using cursors in standalone line charts; that feature was supported prior to the January 2025 release.

  This feature is available for line charts in the Visualization content category; it is not available for line charts in the Event Visualization content category.

  For details, see Use Dual Cursors on Line Charts.

  This feature is available as a preview available to all customers. Watch the release notes for an announcement of its general availability.

• Links from search results open in new tab: When you select a search result, it now opens in a new tab instead of the current tab.

  For details about using search, see Search for assets, data, or visualizations.

Other changes

The following changes are introduced in this release:

• Industrial AI Assistant now in Open Beta - Preview: Industrial AI Assistant is now available upon request for all CONNECT visualization customers. Please note that Industrial AI Assistant remains under development to evaluate customer use cases and performance.

  For details on configuring and enabling Industrial AI Assistant, see Configure the Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

• Use shared streams deprecated: The ability to use shared streams has been deprecated. This was a property available for content items in the Visualization category (line chart, pie chart, etc.). When this property was enabled, modifying streams for one content item with Use shared streams enabled would modify the streams for all other content items in the visualization that had this property enabled.

  This property was not related to user access.

June 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Community data sources: Communities can now be added as data sources. Communities are managed and configured in CONNECT data services. A community allows trusted partners to share their data streams. Once a community is configured as a data source in CONNECT visualization, community streams have the same capabilities as namespace streams; they appear in search, can be access by the Industrial AI Assistant, and can be used in visualizations and experiences.

  For more information on configuring communities as data sources, see Configure data sources in CONNECT visualization. For more information on communities, see Communities in the CONNECT data services documentation.

• Industrial AI Assistant citation improvements: Improved the inline visual citations for data streams, making results more targeted and reducing the number of unrelated results. The full details for all streams are still available through the citations link.

  For details on using the Industrial AI Assistant, see Chat with Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

Known issues

The following are known issues in this release:

• The column chart and data grid content items in the Visualization category may take a significant amount of time to process data. This may result in a timeout error if it takes longer than several minutes. This is more likely to occur when representing data over a long period of time and with a high frequency of stored data. Solutions to this issue are being investigated.

• Graphics with a Statistic property configured to any value other than Current do not display data in grid visualizations.

• When editing a content item with stream data, the streams can no longer be expanded to show metadata in the properties pane. This is planned to be resolved in a future release.

• For content items that show stream data, if the shared asset context is not used, an asset can still be configured. This property does not function correctly and should be ignored. It will be removed in a future release.

May 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Experiences: Experiences provide a new interactive way to view dynamically-driven content with advanced functions and deep customization. These structured tools for visualizing content offer a great amount of flexibility to design what you want including layout, size, aspect ratio, colors, content mix, navigation and menu interactions, and other options.

  Experiences can be created by users with the administrator role or the new builder role.

  Key features include:

  • Experience designer: A new creation environment for assembling experiences.

    • WYSIWYG editing: Choose any content (including existing visualizations) to embed in selected panes, with autofill capabilities based on content type tagging and asset associations.

    • The experience designer has been built to be intuitive and natural to use regardless of job role and skillset.

    • A new user role, Builder, allows access to the experience designer. Builders have all the permissions contributors do, plus the ability to create and manage experiences. For details on user roles and permissions, see User roles in CONNECT visualization.

  • Definable navigation: Implement custom navigation and/or use the CONNECT data services hierarchies. New navigation tree and navigation bar content items are included to drive navigation.

  • Relative referencing and context: Content and data can populate dynamically based on the selected asset and its associated information.

  • Custom thumbnail: Specify the thumbnail to be shown for each experience.

  • Content types: Content types provide a customizable list of “tags." Associate a visualization with a content type to enable it to autofill in experiences. For details, see Configure content types.

    For more details about creating experiences, see Create experiences. For more details about browsing and running experiences, see Browse and manage experiences.

• Graphics enhancements: A revised and enhanced library of preset graphics is now available for designing visualizations and experiences. These graphics offer greater customizability and consistency, and can be used to represent industrial equipment, KPI displays, or other visuals. You can modify graphic options and custom properties to align with your specific use case, helping to accelerate visualization creation and maintain visual consistency across visualizations and experiences.

  These replace the former, less capable graphics as follows:

  Previous graphic	Updated graphic
  Analog three quarter gauge, Analog semi gauge, Analog quarter gauge, UOCCL_Gauge_Dial	Donut half
  Analog Circle Gauge	Donut Pie (with 1 Item)
  Analog single text, Analog single text Light, Analog multi text, CS_03_TextOnly, String single text light, String single text, String multi text	KPI card
  Analog Horizontal Bar	Single Bar (with Horizontal Option)
  Analog Vertical Bar	Single Bar (with Vertical Option)
  UOCCL_Gauge_MultiRange	Dial Multi Range
  Analog trend, Discrete trend	Trend
  Discrete overlay	Discrete Status (with Type as TextStyle, TextStyle as Overlay, ValueType as Discrete)
  Discrete underline	Discrete Status (with Type as TextStyle, TextStyle as Underline, ValueType as Discrete)
  Discrete single text light	Discrete Status (with Type as TextStyle, TextStyle as SingleLineLight, ValueType as Discrete)
  Discrete single text	Discrete Status (with Type as TextStyle, TextStyle as SingleLine, ValueType as Discrete)
  Discrete multi text	Discrete Status (with Type as TextStyle, TextStyle as MultiLine, ValueType as Discrete)
  Discrete colored circle	Discrete Status (with Type as shape and shape as Circle, showBorder disabled)
  Discrete colored rectangle	Discrete Status (with Type as shape and shape as Rectangle, showBorder disabled)
  Discrete rectangle	Discrete Status (with Type as shape and shape as Rectangle)
  ICO_Alert	Discrete Status (with Type Indicator and Indicator as Alert)
  ICO_Warning	Discrete Status (with Type Indicator and Indicator as Warning)

  For details about the updated graphics, see Add graphics to a visualization.

  The old graphics will continue to work in visualizations that they were added to prior to this release. However, they cannot be edited, and are no longer available to add to content. If you need to make changes to an old graphic, delete it and replace it with its updated equivalent.

• Treemap content item: The new Treemap content item uses nested rectangles to represent data. Similar to a pie chart, the size of each rectangle is relative to the percentage that the stream, asset stream ref, or asset metadata represents of the total of the selected data. A treemap is typically used to identify patterns and relationships between data, for example to compare energy output.

  For details about this content item, see Treemap.

• Resource center: Select the new resource center icon on the home page to see relevant announcements and explorable resources related to CONNECT visualization.

April 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Search parameters persist to full page search: When you select Go to full-page search from the search dialog, values entered in the search dialog now persist to the full-page search. Previously, selecting Go to full-page search would start an all-new search.

  For more details about using search, see Search for assets, data, or visualizations.

• Multi OEE KPI content (preview): The Asset Efficiency content category now includes the Multi OEE KPI content item. This content item displays multiple OEE KPIs for an asset.

  This feature is available as a preview to a limited set of customers. For more information about this feature and its availability, contact your sales representative, and watch the release notes for an announcement of its general availability.

• Industrial AI Assistant enhancements:

  • You can now search within documents for specific content. The Industrial AI Assistant can use content from searched documents to answer user questions. Note that only documents within AVEVA Asset Information Management Advanced (AIM-A) that have been marked for content search are available for use with this feature.

  • The Industrial AI assistant can now help create visualizations based on direct instructions from the user.

    For information about using the Industrial AI Assistant, see Chat with Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

• Comments on line charts supported in visualizations: Comments on line charts are now supported when viewing or editing visualizations. You can add a comment to a specific point on a line. This is only supported for lines representing stream data; comments cannot be added to lines representing asset stream reference, asset metadata, or event data sources.

  For more details, see Comment on a line chart.

March 2025 release 2

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Overall strategy and naming updates: To better align with the broader strategy and intent for the CONNECT industrial intelligence platform, the names of the following elements in CONNECT visualization have been been updated:

  • "Dashboard" is now "visualization"

    Visualizations in CONNECT visualization represent data through graphics, charts, rendered models, and even animations to communicate complex data relationships and data-driven insights in a way that is easy to understand.

  • Wherever "content" meant "dashboard," "content" is now "visualization"

  • "Tag" is now "stream" to align with the common definition used by CONNECT data services

  • "Equipment tag" is now "tag" to align with the common definition used by AVEVA Asset Information Management

  • In the Configure menu, "Namespaces" is now "Data sources" to align with the common definitions used elsewhere in CONNECT

  • In the properties for each content item, the "Content settings" tab is simplified to "Settings" as users have already selected content

  • In the Engineering content category, the "Relationship Viewer" is now the "Related Items Viewer"

  • Where "visual" referred to charts, graphs, graphics, and other individual widgets in a visualization, "content" is now used. This is primarily a change in documentation, as "visual" was already largely phased out of the CONNECT visualization interface.

• "Now" indicator for future time: If a chart's time range ends in the future, the current time is now indicated by a blue arrow on the timeline.

  For more information about setting a chart to a future end point, see Adjust the range of time for a visualization.

• Industrial AI Assistant enhancements:

  • Improved ability to search for data streams directly and when leveraging asset relationships

  • It can now retrieve information from and answer questions about static asset properties

    For information about using the Industrial AI Assistant, see Chat with Industrial AI Assistant (Open Beta - Preview).

March 2025 release 1

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Utilization Waterfall content (preview): The Asset Efficiency content category now includes the Utilization Waterfall visual. This content displays the time spent in utilization states and the resulting effective production time for an asset.

  This feature is available as a preview to a limited set of customers. For more information about this feature and its availability, contact your sales representative, and watch the release notes for an announcement of its general availability.

• Content consolidated under dashboards: In order to simplify content creation and management, this release continues the phase out of standalone content. Once the phase out is complete, all content will instead be created through dashboards.

  This release includes the following changes:

  • Standalone content cannot be created through search.

    Future releases plan to make some features that are only available for standalone visuals available on dashboards.

• "Engineering units" changed to "UoM": The label "engineering units" has been changed to "UoM" throughout CONNECT visualization. This is to improve usability, as "UoM" is the more commonly understood label.

  This affects all areas where the label "engineering units" was previously displayed. For example, when browsing tags.

• Charts using future data automatically update: If a chart's time range ends in the future, the chart now automatically updates as data becomes available.

  For more information about setting a chart to a future end point, see Adjust the range of time for a visualization.

February 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancement is introduced in this release:

• Content consolidated under dashboards: In order to simplify content creation and management, this release continues the phase out of standalone content. Once the phase out is complete, all content will instead be created through dashboards.

  This release includes the following changes:

  • On the browse content page, the Add button creates a dashboard instead of standalone content.

  • On the browse tags page, the Create New Content button is changed to Create Dashboard.

    Future releases plan to further address other areas where standalone content can currently be created, and will make features that are currently only available for standalone content available on dashboards.

January 2025

New features and enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in this release:

• Grid: The Asset Efficiency and Event Visualization content categories now include the Grid content item, which displays event details for a single asset. It supports filtering, grouping, sorting, and column resizing. The Grid content item in Asset Efficiency and Event Visualization are similar, but have minor differences. For more information, see:

  • Grid in the Asset Efficiency content category section.

  • Grid in the Event Visualization content category section.

• Full-page search: The search dialog can now be expanded to the full page in order to better display a large number of results.

• Content consolidated under dashboards: In order to simplify content creation and management, standalone content will be phased out. All content will instead be created through dashboardsColumn Chart.

  This will be done in phases across the next several releases. This release includes the following changes:

  • Dashboards can be added to other dashboards.

  • Content cannot be created from the Create menu in the navigation rail.

    Future releases plan to address other areas where standalone content can currently be created, and will make features that are currently only available for standalone content available on dashboards.