Release notes
This article documents the ongoing releases of Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) features and products.
December 2024
These features will become available on December 3, 2024.
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
Cognite Atlas AI agents extend CDF with a workspace to create and manage industrial AI agents to solve your specific business needs. Cognite provides example agent templates that you can use as a starting point for building your agents, or you can use our low-code tools to build agents from scratch.
Atlas AI agents use generative AI (genAI) language models and include prompts with instructions and goals, industry-relevant tools, and access to industrial data stored in your CDF knowledge graph. Humans set the goals, and the AI agent chooses the best actions to take to achieve those goals. (Early adopter)
In the Industrial tools workspace
Search is now the only option for finding data in the Industrial tools workspace and replaces the Data explorer. Search covers the same features as the Data explorer, as well as some features that are unique to search. In this release, search is updated with:
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Filter on locations across the Industrial tools workspace. Set a location in the sidebar on the CDF home page to filter data in search, Canvas, and Charts. We recommend that you configure location filters that match your organization's physical location structure. Use the Cognite Toolkit or join the Manage location filters early adopter group to test location configuration in a user interface.
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Explore charts or canvases under Solutions in the search sidebar. On the search details page, you'll find the Appears in section if the data you've queried appears on a canvas.
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See data that are directly and indirectly linked on a separate card in the search results.
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Sort documents by their category, such as P&IDs or data sheets. Open the File tab in search, Canvas, or Charts and select View categories.
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If you're using asset-centric data modeling, the document categories are based on NORSOK's categorization rules. CDF sorts by the
doc_type
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If you're using core data modeling, CDF sorts by the
CogniteFileCategory
property.
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If you're browsing 3D models, you can open a 3D scene or a specific 3D model. Select Ghost mode to gray out areas that are out of focus for your work. In 3D scenes, insert points of interest, add comments, and share the link to the point of interest with your coworkers. CDF stores the camera position, the clipping planes, the linked asset, and the coordinates. Under Settings, you'll find new options for visualization controls:
- Adjust image transparency to reveal structures.
- Hide all markers or hiding markers blocked by objects in front of you.
- Navigate between previously viewed 360° images using the arrows in the top toolbar.
To continue using Data explorer, navigate to the Data management workspace. If you've bookmarked the Data explorer, you'll see a message to redirect to the Data explorer or to search.
On the Canvas, select Extract pages from the toolbar above a document to extract all or specific pages from the document and add these to a canvas. If you're downloading a canvas as a PDF file, you can select which document pages to include. If you're working with time series on a canvas, you can toggle between viewing the time series data as a graph or as values. Select Change to value view from the toolbar above a time series. Note that you can also add links to a canvas or any item on a canvas, such as in a sticky note or as a text comment.
In the Data management workspace
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Set up simulator integrations to connect first-principle simulation tools and CDF. Simulation integrations can be used for real-time asset performance optimization, predictive maintenance, what-if scenario analysis, and digital twin development.
Use the Cognite API to create simulation workflows and the CDF interface to manage simulation resources and explore simulation results. We provide out-of-the-box connectors to industry-standard simulator tools.
Build data workflow tasks that interact with the simulator integration routines and enable automated, repeatable simulation workflows for data transfers between CDF resources and simulations.
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Use the Diagram parsing tool to analyze engineering diagrams to extract information. This tool automatically detects and maps asset and file tags to CDF resources. For files with SVG elements, Diagram parsing identifies symbols, lines, and connections, and builds a knowledge graph in CDF. You can review and verify the automatic mappings as part of the process. (Beta)
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When you're contextualizing 3D objects, use the unified 3D contextualization editor for CAD, point clouds, or 360° images. You'll see context for a scene and can locate specific structures, such as identifying where a 360° image is positioned in the scene or determining which equipment a point cloud represents. The 360° image contextualization now also support data modeling. You can mark images and link them to assets using the resource selector.
The automatic tag detection now processes all 360° images, and generates suggestions for discovered tag numbers. You can review these suggestions, link them to assets if correct, edit incomplete tags, or discard incorrect suggestions.
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In Data workflows, scope access to specific data sets and set up event-based triggers to automate workflows based on data changes. (Beta)
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For Transformations that require full table-reads, you can read content from CDF Files in NDJSON format by referencing the file in an SQL statement. This is an alternative to using the CDF staging area for transformations where increamental loading (
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Cognite Functions can now be used on CDF projects running in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cluster.
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We're introducing a new Cognite connector to allow write-back for a bidirectional flow of SAP notification and attachment data between SAP S/4HANA and CDF. The Cognite SAP extractor now allows OData v2 or the OData v4 SAP S/4HANA endpoints to ingest SAP data to CDF.
Copilot for documents and the Azure Event Hub and REST API extractors have now been released into general availability.
Resolved issues and minor updates
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Download files from the Files tab in search.
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Search and filter data when you've sorted the data in a tree view on the search results page.
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We've improved the performance on a canvas and reduced the load time for large or multiple documents.
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CDF now keeps your language setting if you switch to another PC or device.
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The sidebar on the CDF home page is collapsible and has improved prompts to help you remember to close it when doing focused work.
InField
- Fixed issue where a numerical reading would disappear after the task state was set.
- Fixed issue with duplicating the groups with the same name when switching between templates. The group names must be unique.
- Fixed issue where it was impossible to switch between locations as the data storage limit was reached.
- Fixed issue where the changes for one checklist item wouldn't be saved if you created the second checklist item too quickly.
- Fixed issue where changing the task state removed the attached media from the task.
- Fixed issue where changes to the time series minimum and maximum values weren't autosaved.
- Fixed issue where users weren't able to see the number of activities completed in a group.
- Fixed issue where the automatically created checklists were scheduled at the wrong time.
- Fixed issue where InField would stop responding when opening work orders on the asset details page.
Cognite API updates
See the API changelog.
Deprecated and retired features
See Deprecated and retired features.
September 2024
New and updated features
Cognite Data Fusion
We've simplified how you sign in and navigate in CDF. When you sign in, you can enter an organization name or select an organization you recently signed in to. When you open a CDF tool, a breadcrumb trail is displayed. On some breadcrumbs, there'll be a dropdown list with common actions, such as creating and deleting items.
In the Industrial tools workspace
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Ask Cognite Copilot to help you find answers across multiple documents. This feature is optimized for finding answers in PDF files with text. Copilot can search a maximum of 100 documents. This feature is available on
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Previously, the Data explorer was the default search engine in the Industrial tools workspace. With this release, the search tool is the default search engine. To keep the Data explorer as your default search engine, select Open Data explorer in the top bar banner. Notice how the menu item in the sidebar switches names.
This adjustment aligns with the upcoming solution where search will be the only search engine in the Industrial tools workspace and Data explorer the only search engine in the Data management workspace.
Overall, search includes these additional features to Data explorer:
- Search data from any type of data model, including CogniteCore and CogniteProcessIndustry. In Data explorer, you can only search for data from asset-centric data models.
- Extended 3D model options, such as scenes that are linked to locations, advanced measuring features, and objects highlighted in color according to set thresholds.
- A Copilot that filters and finds data and helps you summarize information in one or more documents.
- Locations to narrow down data and context.
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Sort search results in a Tree view . For asset-centric data models, you can select an asset in the tree to expand the view and see the parent/child relationship. You’ll see the tree as a card on the details page. Note that you can't use the Filter button or search with text in this view.
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When you use 3D in search, you can crop and slice objects in x, y, and z directions using in the sidebar to unveil 3D objects, such as buildings with walls and roofs.
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On
Canvas- Monitor a system by setting up color-based thresholds for items on a canvas or an engineering diagram, for instance, for corrosion rates or operating temperatures.
- Select Cause map from the toolbar to create diagrams, typically while performing a root-cause analysis. Add stamps, sticky notes, images, or data to the cards. Select a card to set a status, change color, or set up color-based thresholds.
Canvasnow supports the Cognite data models, CogniteCore and CogniteProcessIndustry.
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For
Charts, we're adding a new way for users to find and add time series and create and import calculations. Select Add data from the top bar, and then select to add time series or calculations.Chartsnow supports the Cognite data models, CogniteCore and CogniteProcessIndustry.
In the Data management workspace
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Cognite provides out-of-the-box data models to help you build a structured, flexible and contextualized knowledge graph of your industrial data. The data models include containers and views and can be used at scale out-of-the-box.
- Cognite's core data model, CogniteCore, offers standardized building blocks for industrial data, forming the basis for more specialized models.
- Cognite's process industry data model, CogniteProcessIndustry, is the first of Cognite's industry-specific data models. It extends the core data model to meet typical process industry needs.
To offer a perspective of the data explicitly tailored to your use cases, solutions, or applications, you can create custom data models by extending Cognite's data models or creating new models from scratch.
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Set up digital locations corresponding to physical areas, such as platforms, plants, or factories. You can set up locations or a set of parent-child locations as a filter across data models, data sets, and 3D content. You can't use locations to manage access to data.
Users can use the locations or a specific data model to filter data in search,
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We've revamped the 3D tool for configuration for a better-guided user experience and streamlined the upload and configuration process. 3D contextualization is now available to integrate and visualize the 3D content in the CogniteCore data model.
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We're introducing new Cognite connectors where you can extract and write back data for the Petex PROSPER simulation tool. (Beta)
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We've added production ready extractor support, hosted by Cognite, for MQTT, and Kafka, as well as Beta availability for Azure Event Hub, REST APIs Cognite hosted extractors.
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Automate the execution of data workflows with triggers, and nest data workflows with sub-workflow tasks that reference other workflows. This is typically useful if you want to orchestrate complex workflows or reuse workflows.
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In Transformations, you can write to the type property of nodes and views containing properties of type enum, list of direct relations, and reverse direct relation.
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CDF can now retrieve data points based on a named time zone, or using specified time offsets (with 15-minute increments). The data point aggregates using the Gregorian calendar-based units of time, such as days, weeks, months, quarters, and years. The default value is your regional setting.
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Data modeling now includes two inspection endpoints for views and containers.
InField
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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Observations on desktop. Create observations in the desktop version of InField.
The desktop version lets you view, filter, and change observations made by you or field workers. You can also send observations to SAP and see the status of the observations you sent. You can delete observations with the status Draft or Not sent.
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Search improvements
- Desktop. Find a checklist or a template by its name.
- Mobile. Find a checklist by its name and search for assets within a checklist.
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Extend your work screen
On the desktop, you can extend the right-side panel when adding tasks to templates and viewing work orders and checklists on the Overview page. You can also extend the tasks panel on the Checklists tab.
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Extended description
In the Description field, add more information to the task. The character limit is now 3000.
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InField on Google Play
Download the InField application from the Google Play Store to your Android devices.
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First-time users onboarding
On the sign-in page, new users can select their application language, location, and discipline before they sign in for the first time.
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Write-back to SAP source system - Update maintenance notifications and attachments in SAP S/4HANA source systems. Will deliver a scalable multi-cloud product to General Availability (AWS, Azure & GCP) for InField.
InRobot
The features described in this section are currently in beta testing and are subject to change.
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User interface updates
- Check the status of the robots when they're in control, running the mission, docked, stuck, etc. You can also check the battery charge and see when the robot is charging.
- When creating a mission, collapse the right-side panel to get an extended view of the map, video stream, and logs.
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Deploy InRobot with CDF Toolkit
Use the CDF Toolkit to set up pre-built configurations for InRobot.
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Integration with SV600
The SV600 Fixed Acoustic Imager integrates with the robot, allowing it to detect unheard or unseen air leaks..