Release notes - i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium 10.0.0 desktop client

Enhancements have been made to ANBP to streamline the user experience when connecting to the i2 Online software as service offering. Changes to the connection and login screens as well as guidance messages make it easier to understand working with i2 Online and highlight the differences that an Analyst's Notebook user may experience.

When connected to i2 Online, ANBP now defaults to the standard i2 chart palette for charts as well as importing, and displays "classic" import specifications automatically.

Additionally Mapping no longer defaults to i2 Maps when connected to i2 Online, and provides guidance on which map provider to use for chart data.

The Find Matching Records tool also displays guidance for its use with chart and i2 Online data.

The new List Records tool gives the user the ability to explore the data records of items on the chart, allowing the records and their properties to be filtered, sorted, and viewed in a table layout for quick and easy comparisons. Clicking items in the table view centers them on the chart, and provides the ability to add or refine chart item selection state.

Additional filtering capabilities give the user the ability to further filter data, for example by selection state, items linked to most records, link end types, or the most linked ends.

The table view of the listed records can be copied to the clipboard for inclusion in other documents, with configuration options provided to tailor the formats of the clipboard data.

List Records replaces the previous List Data Records tool and is compatible with data records from both iBase and i2 Analyze.

Using List Records

Items that are selected on the chart can be emphasized with animated colored outlines to draw attention to key information regardless of the zoom level and chart complexity.

The color of the outline and whether it is animated can be controlled from the Analyst’s Notebook options menu.

Using Highlight Selections

New and enhanced selection tools make it quicker to select the data you need in a chart. Select or deselect all Entities or Links, Deselect or filter by specific entity or semantic types, and select, deselect, or filter by related semantic types such as different types of Property – Bank Account, Motor Vehicle for example.

Select “standalone” entities with no connections with the Singleton Entity selection tool.

Selecting items

Additional icons have been added for social media services and new technologies.

The following are some examples.

New condition operators are now available when using values from a lookup table to apply a conditional format. The new operators, Is Set/Is not Set and Is Present/Is Absent, can be used to apply a format based on the whether a property or attribute is populated or not.

Using Conditional Formatting

When importing data that contains date and time properties a new key helps the user to understand the codes used to define custom date and time formats, ensuring that this information is correctly imported. The default codes that are displayed in the key are based on the region settings of the computer.

Importing Data

The Bar Charts and Histograms tool has been enhanced with the addition of Play Backwards and Expand Backwards options for Histograms.

Using Bar Charts & Histograms

New options in the activity view pane right click menu allow the user to select the Latest, Earliest, or All activities for selected rows making it easy to find and focus on key data.

The menu has also been updated to clarify that Remove actions affect rows within the activity view.

In addition, after selecting an individual activity users can move the current selection to the next or previous activity using the arrow keys.

Using Activity View

A new Scale bar provides a key for the shading of the time wheel and gives the user the option to directly change the scale color and scaling method for the wheel.

Additionally, the time wheel counts can now be calculated based on all chart items or only the selected items.

Optionally, selecting a sector or sectors in the time wheel can pan the chart to bring the records in that sector(s) into focus.

Using the Time Wheel

The Export to KML tool on the Publish toolbar exports chart items with geographic coordinate information to a KML or KMZ file that can be used with Google Earth Pro and other GIS products to display the locations of the chart items on a map.

Mapping chart items

The new license management mechanism within Analyst's Notebook Premium helps to ensure that the product is used within the terms of the license agreement. License management supports standalone, network, or cloud based licensing.

Please note that standalone licenses are not supported when using Remote Desktop Services.

Licensing information