We're pleased to present Enterprise Lens 4.0, our biggest update to Enterprise Lens so far, featuring new features to enrich your storytelling experience, alongside greatly requested quality of life enhancements.

1. Features​

1.1. New Design Language​

Utilising the latest versions of Ant Design and Reacts, we have introduced a new application-wide design language.

New/Improved Component	Example
Rounded Buttons
Symmetrical Forms
Switches
Collapsible Menus
Tabs
Drag-and-Drop Sorting

1.2. Rollup Wizard​

Illustrators can now create quick sums, counts, and averages across boxes through the new Rollup Wizard available in the Lens Styles menu.

In the above example, the illustrator was able to quickly create a Sum of all People per State, located on the bottom right of every State box using our new Rollup Wizard.

1.2.1. How it works​

1. Open the Box Type you wish to create your aggregate lens on, and click the + Add button to create a new Lens

   

2. Name your new Lens Type, and click the + Add from Template button.

   The Rollup template has already been preset for your convenience.

   

3. Fill out the Details of your new Lens Style

   • Set a Name for your Lens Style
   • Toggle whether you want to show this Lens Style in the Favourites Menu. By default, this is turned on
   • Set a Favourites Group for your Lens Style to appear under, by default this is set to the highest Favourites Group in your illustration
   • Set a Favourites Display Name, which is the name used in the Left Hand Menu under your Favourites
   • Select an Operation, by default it is Sum
     • You can also Count, Average, and calculate Minimum and Maximum values
   • Select an Association to the Box Type you would like to sum, this is often automatically set for your convenience
   • Select a Lens to apply an operation to, in this case it is a Sum

   Below is an annotated image showing which sections of the menu you would typically need to modify. The other options not highlighted are typically prefilled and do not need to be modified.

   

4. Customise the Formatting of your new Lens Style

   • We have curated several common options based on User Feedback for you to customise your Lens Style with
   • In our example, we only changed the Text Colour, with all other presets untouched.
   • All our preset values are set-and-forget by nature, while still remaining customisable to your liking
   
   Available Formatting Options

   Setting	Description	Options	Examples
   Prefix	Appends characters to the front of your Lens value.	Any characters you enter. Default: (Blank)	$value £value
   Suffix	Appends characters to the end of your Lens value.	Any characters you enter. Default: (Blank)	value km value sqm value²
   Abbreviation	Only for lenses with Number values! Shortens a number by dividing it by a common divisor. Often paired with Decimal Places	None Auto Thousand (K) Million (M) Billion (B) Default: None	1,000,000 -> 1 (Million) 372,101 -> 372.101 (Thousand) 8045615270 -> 8.045615270 (Auto, Billion)
   Percentage Scale	Only for lenses with Number values! Multiplies a number by a whole number percentage.	Any number you enter. Default: 100 (no change)	100: 281 -> 281 75: 100 -> 75 250: 4492 -> 11230
   Decimal Place	Only for lenses with Number values! Rounds a number to the specified number of decimal places.	Any number you enter. Default: 2	0: 281.7322673 -> 282 2: 281.7322673 -> 281.73 4: 281.7322673 -> 281.7323
   Text Size	The size of the text shown in your Lens.	Any number you enter. Default: 16	See default.
   Font Family	The font of the text shown in your Lens.	Arial Courier New Tahoma Times New Roman Default: Arial	See default.
   Text Colour	The colour of the text shown in your Lens.	Any HEX value you select. Default: #000000	See default.
   Text Size	The size of the text shown in your Lens.	Any number you enter. Default: 16	See default.
   Border Radius	The roundness of your Lens' corners.	Any number you enter. Default: 5	See default.
   Width	The width of your lens, which can be expressed as a Percentage (%) or in Pixels (px).	Any number you enter. Default: 30%	See default.
   Height	The height of your lens, which can be expressed as a Percentage (%) or in Pixels (px).	Any number you enter. Default: 20%	See default.
   Horizontal Position	The horizontal position of your lens relative to the boxes it sits in, which can be expressed as a Percentage (%) or in Pixels (px).	Any number you enter. Default: 100%	See default.
   Vertical Position	The vertical position of your lens relative to the boxes it sits in, which can be expressed as a Percentage (%) or in Pixels (px).	Any number you enter. Default: 100%	See default.
   Background Colour	The background colour of the content displayed in your Lens.	Any HEX value you select. Default: #FFFFFF00	See default.
   Background Image	The background image of the content displayed in your Lens.	Any URL you enter. Default: (Blank)	https://www.myenterpriselens.com/whitelabel/images/el-login-logo.svg

1.3. Favourites Menu​

Lenses, Lens Styles, Power Lenses, and Box Types can now be grouped and stored in the Favourites Menu for quick and easy access, with the grouping configurable per story.

In the below image, the Illustrator groups Lenses for States and Projects with a Box Type under the Strategy Favourites Group.

1.3.1. Groups​

You are able to create new sub groups inside Favourite groups by clicking on the + Add New Group button.

• Within a group, you can add Lenses, Lens Styles, Power Lenses, and Box Types, as well as more nested group

• Groups will be listed alongside any other options you have added to your Favourites group, as pictured below.

  Clicking the + Add New Group button will provide the exact same layout and options, the only difference is the group will be listed inside the group it was created from, as shown in the previous image.

1.3.2. Box Types​

You are able to add Box Types to Favourites, this is useful for when you want to toggle on and off all boxes belonging to a certain type.

• In the below example, the Illustrator has chosen to group all Box Types under one Canvases group. This enables the Illustrator to hide or show boxes from one centralised place in the Left Hand Menu.

• Clicking the + Add Box Types button provides you with a list of all available box types in an illustration to select from.

1.3.3. Lenses​

You are able to add Lenses to Favourites groups, with no limit on how many groups you can include them in, or how many Lenses you can add.

• In the below example, the Illustrator has chosen to create a Lenses group with two Lenses featured inside

• Clicking the + Add Lenses button provides you with a list of all available lenses, listed underneath each Box Type, for that illustration

1.3.4. Lens Style​

You are able to add Lens Styles to Favourites groups, this is useful for when you want to display a specific style of a Lens as opposed to turning on all styles of a Lens.

• In the below previous example, the Illustrator has a Lenses group with one Lens Style featured inside

  

• Clicking the + Add Lens Style button provides you with a list of all available lens styles, listed underneath each Box Type and respective Lens, for that illustration

  In this example, the Illustrator chose to display the Formatted Number style for People per State Lens, as opposed to an Icon

  

1.3.5. Power Lenses​

You are able to add Power Lenses to Favourites groups, with no limit on how many groups you can include them in, or how many Power Lenses you can add.

• In the below example, the Illustrator has chosen to add two Power Lenses under one Filter by Significance group

  

• Clicking + Add Power Lenses provides you with a list of all available Power Lenses

  • All Power Lens Groups will appear first in the list, with any Power Lenses available under the respective group dropdowns
  • Below Power Lens Groups are the ungrouped Power Lenses
  

1.4. Sticky Mode​

The redesigned navigation bar features a new Sticky Mode, located next to Association Mode.

• Clicking any box will provide a static highlight all associated boxes
• Both ends of associations are preserved, allowing you to click on a box currently highlighted to see what all that joins to and vice versa

1.5. Lens Wizard​

A new menu available to all boxes allows you to quickly create data-driven associations and a premade lens according to the unique values of a lens.

1.6. Power Lens Wizard​

The Lens Wizard now supports the automatic creation of power lenses based on the unique values available to a lens, in the Edit Box form.

1.7. Expression Wizard​

Illustrators can now add complicated sums, averages, counts, and arithmetic functions across all boxes and box types through the new Expression Wizard.

1.8. Automatic Lens Grid​

Lenses can now take one of nine automatic positions within a box, and adjust itself relative to other lenses to prevent overlapping.

1.9. Default Template 4.0​

All clients have received Default Template 4.0, featuring a new Front Cover with five in-built themes, and simple inserts for corporate logos.

1.10. Lens Library 4.0​

Featuring over 300+ pre-built static lenses and the addition of conditionally formatted lenses, the Lens Library 4.0 represents the biggest, most feature rich, collection of lenses to date.

1.11. New Right Hand Menu Abilities​

Site administrators can now grant granular access to entries in the Right Hand Menu, with each collapsible section representing a new ability to grant.

For more information on Role Based Access Control (RBAC), please visit our dedicated resource page here.

2. Improvements​

2.1 New Lens Page Editor​

Our previous BRAFT editor has been replaced with the new feature-rich TipTap Editor, with expanded support for rich-text formatting, tables, and images.

2.2 Export Lens Pages​

In View Mode, viewers are able to export any Lens Page to a PDF for easy external viewing.

2.3 Duplicate Illustrations​

In Project Directories, Illustrators are now able to duplicate illustrations with the new Duplicate Illustration button next to the Edit button.

2.4 Speed and Performance​

Opening illustrations and navigating client directories have up to 80% faster load times.

2.5 Business Architecture Branding​

The Enterprise Lens logo has been updated to feature our new business architecture slogan.

2.6 Lens Groups​

There are three new groups for lenses within box types, to help separate system level lenses from business data.

3. Quality-of-Life Enhancements​

3.1 New Save before Exit Prompt​

You are now prompted to ensure you have saved all changes prior to exiting an illustration.

3.2 MongoDB Upgrades​

Enterprise Lens is now running the latest stable release MongoDB 8.2, featuring performance uplifts and robust data storage architecture.

3.3 Typeahead for all dropdowns​

All dropdowns across Enterprise Lens now support typing ahead to filter entries.

3.4 New JSON Editor​

JSON can now be edited faster and in greater volumes through the new JSON Editor, with support for Find & Replace and Undo.

• Find

• Replace

• regexp search

• case sensitive search

• whole word search

We're pleased to present Enterprise Lens 3.3.1, a quality of life update focused on quality of life updates, refinements to existing functionality, and bug fixes.

1. Ability to Duplicate Illustrations​

You are now able to duplicate any illustration by clicking the new Duplicate button, located next to Edit and Delete in each illustration when you open a Projects directory, as shown below.

We're pleased to present Enterprise Lens 3.3, a milestone update and packed with new features to enrich your storytelling experience. These new features will elevate your Illustration creation and presentation experience.

What's New​

• A new way to display values in boxes using Conditional Formatting, a powerful extension to our render engine that allows you to define conditions to format, aggregate and mutate attributes.
• Ability to effortlessly add associations with Automatic Filters and create lenses on the fly through Automatic Badges.
• Native support for Gantt Charts, to visualise project scheduling with ease.
• New Bulk Association Edit Ability that can be added to Roles, to control who can see the Associations menu.
• Choise based attributes now feature in-cell dropdowns when exported to Excel.

We're pleased to present Enterprise Lens 3.1.7, a quality of life update with new features to enhance your storytelling experience.

1. Custom Templates​

This features is a refinement of templates and provides the ability to setup industry and company specific templates and facilitates simple replication. This allows access to a library of templates that are simple to access and can be tailored to new opportunities, improving the speed to respond to new business.

This new functionality is found by editing the Client, in the right-hand side of the form. Click Edit to open the Edit Client form.

When you click Edit it will present the Client Details form. Use the drop down arrow to provide a list of Template Clients you can choose from (this will be determined by your access privileges).

We are pleased to present Enterprise Lens 3.1.6. May 2024

1. Easily Hide/Show Box Types​

This new feature enables users to easily easily hide a Box Type that is part of a Story. To use this feature, it also uses the concept of Power Lenses and Power Lens groups.

Power Lens Wizard can be accessed in edit mode, towards the bottom of the right-hand menu, in a tab called "Power Lenses".

The process to follow is create the Power Lens first and then apply that Power Lens to a Power Lens Group.

To create a new Power Lens, click the + Add button on the right-hand side. Then a form called Add Power Lens will appear.

We are pleased to present Enterprise Lens 3.1.5. March 2024

This version of Enterprise Lens is aimed at improving usability, accelerating learning times and improves speed to value. This is achieved through the addition of wizards, refinements and use of templates, support for "numbers" and story telling enhancements.

1. Exports will now be named after the Illustration​

When you export the whole illustration as a JSON, the file exported will be named after the illustration.

2. Export to Excel now supports Box URLs​

When exporting canvases or child boxes, a new URL column will be available allowing you to specify the URL per box.

3. Enterprise Lens Codes​

New Feature​

EL-513 Export filename to have the same name as the Illustration

EL-640 Export to Excel (Canvas & Child Box) to support new URL feature

EL-671 Create a new secured tenancy

Bug​

EL-648 Error Checking - If you select a Story and whilst on that Story decide to Delete it - EL Crashes

Improvement​

EL-667 New Default Illustration

EL-632 Update GitHub Actions from Node 12 to Node 16

This update was a critical security patch.

1. Enterprise Lens Codes​

Improvements​

EL-653 - Update MongoDB before April 30 2023

• MongoDB 4.2 was reaching End of Life (EOL).

1. Default Illustration​

There is a new default Illustration that is applied when you create any new Illustration. This feature has been designed to assist users create a clean and professional interface to their Story. It also incoroporates multiple new box types in the design with a layout to cater for all. The twelve (12) default lenses have also been incorporated to the Illustration ensuring you have everything you need, out of the box, to create a quality Illustration in a short space of time.

1. New Power Lenses Menu and Lens Group Creation​

There is now a new Power Lenses category, allowing you to create Power Lenses to hide and show boxes within an illustration.

Below is an example of how Power Lenses are used within an illustration, to hide all projects that are low risk, effort, and complexity in three clicks.

2. New Lens Group Creation Wizard​

You are now able to select entire attributes to turn on and off as lenses, when creating Lens Groups.

Here are the steps to do so.

1. Click the + Add button in the Lens Groups section located on the Right Hand Menu.

   

2. Enter a Name and Description for your Lens Group.

3. Click + Add to add your first Lens.

4. Enter a Name for the Lens and select the attributes from the Box Types of your choosing.

5. Click OK at the bottom of the menus to exit and save.

3. New Default Render Function​

When creating a Render Function, it will be prefilled with JSON syntax allowing you to create lenses with ease.

{
  "boxPropertyKey": "text"
}

4. Box UUID and ID columns hidden on Excel Export​

When exporting an illustration or parts of an illustration to Excel, previously Columns A and B were visible as pictured below.

Columns A and B are now hidden by default on export, as pictured below.

5. Enterprise Lens Codes​

New Features​

EL-307 - Skinnied Down Box Types LHS Menu & FAVOURITES MENU

EL-564 - Update Style Library

Improvements​

EL-493 - Box Type Specific EXCEL Import underneath a Container Box

EL-568 - Increase timeout on web service calls

EL-574 - Show/Hide Types Menu TreeView

EL-577 - New Render Function that is used to get data from an Excel Sheet that can then be used as a Lens

EL-580 - Change the Position of the Hidden Fields when you create an Excel Workbook

EL-581 - Importing: Automated upload of New Column and its associated Data

EL-590 - When using "Export Child Boxes" where were are no children boxes but there is a "Choice" Value Type that has values "Low", "Medium" and "High" these are not passed through as an Excel List Validation

Bugs​

EL-565 - Multi Edit Doesn't work unless you have clicked OK on the single edit modal first

EL-566 - Box Type Comparisons Don't Properly Account for Undefined

EL-567 - Create Simple Association Errors out if there is no box type

EL-570 - When you export Associations in "Export to Excel" and then import - you loose ALL previously created associations

EL-571 - Mixin- you cannot create a Mixin as a Lens in the Left Hand Menu or in the new right hand menu Lens Groups

EL-572 - When you "Export Child Boxes" - it ALWAYS includes the Associations even if you have not selected this option

EL-575 - Exporting child boxes when there are no child boxes throws an error

EL-582 - Box ID's are not being populated in Export Child Boxes / Import Child Boxes

EL-583 - Exporting to Excel - Does not Indent Box Hierarchy anymore

EL-584 - Export to Excel then Import followed by Export to Excel Canvas and Import Excel Canvas - Added 2 New Columns Box UUID and Box Name

EL-585 - Performance: When Changing an Attribute value or adding an Association data value - it takes about 6 Seconds in DEV and instantaneous in PROD an a Large Illustration it takes 68 seconds

EL-586 - Excel Column Height grows from a Row Height of 15 ( which equates to 20 pixels) to whatever it needs to accommodate "word wrapping" - Can we "enforce/apply" the Row Height of 15

EL-587 - Adding empty Columns between Attributes and importing gives in incongruent response on import

EL-589 - DefaultAssociation_1, DefaultAssociation_2 keep importing

EL-592 - Import Child Boxes adds new Boxes to the Illustration even if the column is has no name or is titled Blank.