- New Features & Enhancements
- Full Update Notes
Minitab Solution Center Features & Enhancements
The May 2025 Release of the Minitab Solution Center includes enhancements, important bug fixes, and security updates.
Minitab Data Center: Split and Extract
User Benefit
Use the new Split and Extract data cleanup operations to create new columns of data based on a subset of characters/strings from other Text Columns.
Summary
The Split and Extract data preparation steps allow you to subdivide the values within a text column, in order to pull out specific characters, strings, or list items. The Extract function provides more granular methods for parsing values that allows you to create one new column at a time, while the Split function caters to list values that can create up to 10 new columns at a time.
Minitab Dashboards: Enhanced Menus, Multiselect, and Zoom
User Benefit
When creating and editing a Dashboard, use the enhanced asset context menus as well as the multiselect capability to quickly build and organize the layout of your dashboard. And the new zoom feature allows you to more easily navigate across larger canvases.
Summary
Actions specific to sourcing and editing dashboard assets are now available in the enhanced context menu at the top-right corner of each asset. Multiple assets can be simultaneously selected for purposes of moving, deleting, and reorganizing the dashboard layout. And a native zoom control can be used to help navigate larger dashboards.
Minitab Solution Center Full Update Notes
Release Date: 18 June 2025
New Feature in Minitab Data Center
Use the Quick Prep menu to prepare data more quickly. This menu provides convenient access to common filtering options for individual values based on column type.
Problem Resolved in Minitab Data Center
The following issue was resolved in Minitab Solution Center June 2025.
- The "Extract at Index" label extends to two separate lines in German. (287738)
Problem Resolved in Minitab Dashboards
The following issue was resolved in Minitab Solution Center June 2025.
- The related dashboard asset is cleared out and needs to be rebuilt when you rename a column in Data Center. (287698)
Release Date: 21 May 2025
New Features in Minitab Web App
Wafer Plot
Wafer plot is a new visualization tool added to Graph Builder that provides the ability to pinpoint the locations of defective integrated circuits or chips across the wafer. Wafer plot is a specialized heatmap used in semiconductor manufacturing to identify potential root causes of manufacturing issues and facilitates the application of statistical process control methods to monitor and improve manufacturing processes.
Boxplot Y-scale Log Transformation
The Graph Builder now includes the option to apply a log transformation to the Y-scale on a Boxplot so you can visualize the distribution of continuous data that is highly skewed or affected by severe outliers.
Quick Designs
Quick Designs is a simple, guided dialog in the DOE menu to help get you started in choosing a design that is right for your problem. It encompasses most used design settings for: Definitive Screening, Factorial, General Full Factorial, Response Surface, Mixtures, and Taguchi designs.
Command Line and History
The Command Line and History pane is now integrated into the Minitab Statistical Software web application. You can use this tool to quickly repeat an analysis on a new set of data or construct a macro to automate a series of analyses.
Problems Resolved in Minitab Web App
- Unintended behavior occurs in graphical summaries and small data. (187463)
- The deletion of report annotation does not work as expected. (187497)
- Incorrect error handling occurs in Attribute Agreement Analysis with numbers as column names. (187263)
- ANOVA model controls do not handle certain characters. (183904)
New Features in Minitab Data Center
Split a text column
You can split columns that contain values separated by a delimiter into new columns. For example, you can split a column where each cell contains three values separated by a comma into three new columns.
Extract text values from a column
You can extract a specific number of characters or use an index to create a new column or overwrite the current column.
Standardize column lengths
You can specify whether to standardize the number of rows across all columns or allow unequal column lengths for a data set.
Refresh data from source
When the original source data file has updates, you can pull in the latest changes to your file in the Data Center.
New Features in Minitab Workspace Web App
Two new templates
Two new templates are available with this release of Workspace in the Minitab Solution Center. Now, you can identify and catalog the sources of variation in a system with the P-Diagram and stay organized with the Checklist.
Improved printing
You can print entire maps and brainstorming tools by selecting Print on the application view bar or by right-clicking the tool in the Navigator and choosing Print. From your browser’s print view, you can print the tool or export it to PDF by using Print to PDF or
Save as PDF. You can also adjust print settings such as layout, scale, and quality.
New Features in Minitab Dashboards
Pan/Zoom
Instead of using browser zoom, you can adjust the zoom level of the canvas area with a native zoom control. You can also pan vertically and horizontally without relying on the canvas scrollbars.
Allow interactions and paging in Edit Mode
You can fully interact with graph elements in both Present and Edit mode. You can view graph tooltips, zoom and pan on graph data regions, use the graph scale navigator/slider for time series and control charts, interact with graph legend items, and more.
In addition to using the Navigator to switch pages in Edit mode, you can also select different pages of the dashboard using the same page control displayed in Present mode.
Multi-select assets and slicers
In Edit mode, you can multi-select assets and slicers to drag, move, or delete them.
Simplified edit behavior
The Asset menu has improved functionality. In Edit mode, you can right-click to access the Asset menu.
Slicer interactivity
You can interact with slicers in Edit mode. The changes apply to all active assets.
Problems Resolved in Online Repositories
- You are not notified when Autosave fails due to lack of space in Cloud Storage Account (Microsoft OneDrive® and Google Drive™).
- Only the first 200 files are displayed in OneDrive.
- When you share a Minitab proprietary file through email, OneDrive unsuccessfully attempts to show the user a preview of the file and selecting the Open button does not successfully open the file.