4.1 Release Notes

Scuba release 4.1 includes simplified top-level UI, unified chart options, the ability to query using information from a flow, distribution view improvements, and additional enhancements and bugfixes.

New features

Scuba release 4.1 includes the following features:

• Simplified top-level UI

• Unified chart options

• Ability to query using information from a flow

• Distribution view improvements

• Advanced filter workspace

• Additional enhancements and bugfixes

Simplified top-level UI

Simplified navigation includes the following:

• Consolidating A/B view, Distribution, Flows, and Retention into a single Apps catalog.

• Consolidating event properties (previously labeled "Events" in the UI), actor properties (previously labeled "Actors" in the UI), flows, and measures into a new Data model area.

Unified chart options

Chart options for visualizations in Explore have been unified for consistency.

Some default display options in number view have changed, as follows:

Query properties based on their presence in a flow or flow step

You can now use flows and flow steps as a filter when querying events. This allows you to measure the distribution of any event property at any stage of a flow.

You can specify a flows and flow states as a filter as you would any other filter. 

Additionally, there is a new EVENT_FLOW_STATE expression that allows you to split any event-based query into which step or flow it exists in.

See Query on stages in a flow in the User's Guide.

Distribution view enhancements

Distribution view includes several improvements, as follows:

• The ability to export query results as a CSV file.

• Results formatted as percentages (available in every tool tip as well as in the chart options).

• Cumulative results (available in tool tips and chart options).

• Results formatted as percentiles. To display axes as a percentile, in chart options, select both normalized percent and cumulative. The tool tip always displays the percentile (like normalized percent and cumulative).

• The number of split-bys is limited to 1 for digestibility.

• Splitting an actor property by an event property is now restricted.

• You can now save a distribution view that you have edited from a pinned view.

See Analyze a distribution in the User's Guide.

Advanced filter workspace

You can now open up a workspace to work with advanced filters.

Additional enhancements and bugfixes

Scuba version 4.1 includes the following general enhancements:

• The retention app can now limit the number of split-bys to prevent visual overload. Set the limit in the query definition. When you use the split-by limit, it acts like the flow path limit. That is, it displays the message Results shown reflect top 0.01% of all results in query; remaining 99.99% are not shown.

• When aggregating over actors, you can now select an actor property of a different actor.

Scuba version 4.1 includes the following bugfixes:

• Typeahead for start date now works in Firefox.

• Retention app queries pinned before 3.15 now correctly display.

• Improved error messaging around exporting flows and flow properties.

• Improved guardrails to prevent defining invalid filters.

• Typeahead suggestions are now sorted alphabetically.

• Fixed a bug related to incorrectly copying sharded lookup tables.

• Fixed a problem deleting an item from a query sentence due to the query sentence being reformatted. Now the delete (minus) buttons on a sentence are all available if any part of the sentence is being moused over.

• Incremental improvements in deactivated user sharing experience.

• Improved some lagging typing behavior in the UI.

• Fixed a bug causing a split by label flow property in a sankey to fail.

• A/B view can now accept calculate method actor properties with multiple performance measures.