What's New?
This page documents new features and capabilities as they become available to users. You will also find this information in Seeq from the blue megaphone on the bottom right corner of the home screen. The announcements in Seeq will always be up to date with the version of Seeq you can access. If you see something on this page that is not yet announced via your megaphone, it is likely because you are on an older version.
VANTAGE Initial and On-demand Condition Monitor Run
When setting up your Condition Sources in Vantage, we now run the initial backfill immediately to provide events in which you can start investigating. The Conditions tab now shows indication of the “Last Run” and “Next Run” statuses in the top-right corner, where you can initiate a manual run, if you want to execute your search off-schedule. The defined schedule is maintained and will run again at the next scheduled time.
VANTAGE Condition Monitor Lookback more than 28 days
Both Lookback and Lookahead durations during configuration of your Condition Sources are now free-form, allowing you to enter the duration that fits your use case.
More Options for Coloring in Trend View
Calendar and Chain View now have a Color button in the Toolbar. This will look familiar if you have used Capsule view, Compare view, or XY Plot. Now you can change the color of signals, conditions, and other items right from the toolbar. In addition, you can do “conditional formatting” or color capsules by capsule property. This allows for additional visual information on the trend. This could be useful to color all capsules by Operation, color capsules that are longer than expected differently, or show some important contextual information to differentiate between High Temperature events.
Ask the AI Assistant to Document your Analysis
The Actions Agent in the AI Assistant can help you document your analysis! Everyone loves the idea of journaling so their colleagues can understand, but it can be hard to put into practice. You can give it prompts like “document my analysis” or “add a workstep at the top of my journal”. The analysis documentation is based on the items currently displayed and their calculation hierarchy.
Organizer Dashboard Improvements
Dashboard content can be sized from any side instead of just the lower right corner. Content can optionally be overlaid over other content if desired to get your content into just the right place.
Configure Scatter Plot Line Thickness
A thickness column in the Details Pane allows you to configure the width of lines drawn on the scatter plot.
VANTAGE Group by Day, Week, Month or Year
You can now group by various date aggregations, like Day or Week, to more easily bucket events with Datetime columns, like Start and End.
VANTAGE Indication in Workbench that a Condition is monitored in Seeq Vantage
A small, clickable Vantage icon is now visible in your Workbench Details Pane, indicating a Condition is being monitored in a Vantage Room. When clicked, this icon will open a modal with details about the Vantage Room and a link to open it.
Interactive Treemap can Select Asset in Organizer Documents
Treemaps can now be inserted in Organizer Documents as interactive content. When attached to an asset selection, selecting a box on the Treemap will update that asset selection and any content associated with it. When viewers have the appropriate permissions to content in the Organizer, this asset selection from Treemap will work in Edit, View Only, and Presentation views, but it will only persist in Edit view. Asset selection from the Treemap is currently limited to assets that do not contain any asset children. Read more at Inserting Content - Documents | Set-Content-Properties[inlineExtension] .
Separable Administrator Capabilities
Previously, each individual was either a “user” or an “admin” in Seeq. Now, there are various administration capabilities that can be given to other users without making them a full Seeq Administrator. This allows users to have the capabilities they need without giving them unnecessary capabilities. Read more at https://support.seeq.com/kb/latest/cloud/administration-capabilities.
New bitwise functions in Formula
There are several new Seeq Formula functions for performing bitwise arithmetic. Added functions are bitwiseAnd, bitwiseOr, bitwiseXor , bitwiseShiftLeft and bitwiseShiftRight. These can be used on pairs of scalars or on a signal and a scalar. These signals and scalars should be decimal representation of integers. The signals need to be discrete or step interpolated.
For example, if you have a control signal indicating system state and want to check when the fourth bit is on, you can use bitwiseAnd($signal, 8) > 0 to create a condition for when that bit is active. See Formula Documentation for more examples.
More easily create Notifications
The first workflow for creating Notifications required you to know about item properties. Now you can create a notification from the three dot menu next to any condition in the Details Pane.
Usage
All users can now view their usage by selecting "Usage" from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner. This interface shows a variety of user activity, including workbooks accessed, projects run, and AI Assistant agents interactions. Analytics administrators are able to see this information for all users. Read more at Understanding Usage Data.
Filtering Tools
Now you can use the filter in the Tools Pane regardless of which level of Tools you are on. Previously this was only available at the highest level. You might find this particularly helpful if your organization has many Add-ons available.
Display Units
Seeq supports many units of measure, but there are still some units we do not yet support. Any user can add optional Display Units to any signal via the item properties. These will display in the trend and in the Details Pane. Read more at Display Units.
Seeq Directory Authentication Options
Many customers take advantage of Seeq’s OAuth 2.0 connectivity for end user authentication. But there are times when you need to collaborate with colleagues who may not be able to use that form of authentication.
When the Seeq Directory is used, administrators can now require more advanced passwords and require users reset their password on the next log-in. See Enabling Seeq Directory Self-Service Password Reset for more details.
Intro video on home screen
Users who have been around for a while may remember we used to have an orientation video on the home screen. It is back, new and improved! This can help orient new users onboarding to Seeq before they have access to training.
AI Assistant for Formula Help
Where you used to get help directly in Formula from the AI Assistant, now there are sparkles that will launch the AI Assistant side panel with the Formula Agent active.
Convert to Formula
Part way through an analysis, you may want to make more complicated changes to a calculated item that you originally created with a tool. There is a new option in the Item Properties to allow any item that was created by other tools to be opened in the Formula tool for further editing. This makes it easier to continuously improve your analysis by seamlessly transitioning from a simple tool to a more complicated Formula based solution without creating a new item and mapping any other items that depend on the original item. This change cannot be reverted. Read more in Item Properties.
User Datasource Preferences
Some global customers have many datasources connected, but an individual working at a single site may not need to access all data. One way to manage this so individuals have less to search through is with access control. If your company has an open policy with access control but you are tired of sorting through datasources you have no interest in, navigate to the User menu in the upper right corner and modify your Preferences. There is a new tab to select datasource preferences. After selecting datasource preferences, any searches performed in Workbench will only be applied to the datasources selected. Read more here.
Flexible Layouts
We have introduced more customization to Workbench and Organizer layouts. You can move different parts of the interface around so that Journal can always be open, or the Details Pane can be somewhere else to maximize room for a trend. These layouts are saved for each user per application, so your Organizer layout might be different from Workbench. You can reset the layout to default from the User menu in the upper right corner.
Multicolumn Lookup Tables
Now a single table can have multiple columns to lookup against. Additionally, the “experimental” name has been dropped from these operators.
Read more here.
Option to talk to the AI Assistant
Use the microphone icon in the AI Assistant to ask your question verbally instead of typing!