Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

In this document, we are covering how you can have an input parameter. This input parameter can be an input parameter text box wherein an end user can provide the value and that can be displayed anywhere in the canvas. Or you can even pass that value from your application and append it into our report URL, thus that value will be shown

Add a parameter whose value an end user should be able decide. Below you can see that we have added a parameter, named it as “dummy” and the datatype of that is String.

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Go to the “Parameter” section and specify the default value

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Now go to canvas and you can create the report that you interested in. When you click on “Calculations/Parameters”, then you can even see the Dummy field also which we had created earlier. You can drag that into the canvas, apply the required “Repeat by” option.

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Now if you view the report, end user can get a text box to write the value. Whatever value he will write, accordingly that will become visible in the report as shown below.

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Example 2: In this example user has provided value as USER HEADER and that value is visible in the report.

Creating custom Input Filter to pass value and display in canned report

Passing value from the URL

In case if you would like that this filter popup box is not visible, rather the value is visible from. For doing that, whatever is the report URL infront of that append the filterlabel and filtervalue. For example in this example, the filterlabel is “dummy”
Hence, the URL will be something like

https://192.168.0.1:hi-ee/#/report-viewer?dir=Canned_Reports_Sample&file=value_from_user.hcr&mode=open&dummy=SAMPLE
https://192.168.0.1:hi-ee/#/report-viewer?dir=Canned_Reports_Sample&file=value_from_user.hcr: This is the canned report URL. You can find this by clicking on Home button, navigating to that specific created canned report, right clicking on it and using “Open in New Window”. This will give the canned report end point URL.
&mode=open: This can have 2 values i.e. open or dashboard. When open is used, the report opens with a top blue band and that top blue band has got options to set other set of configurations like filters, exporting etc. Whereas if mode=dashboard is being used, then the report will open without the top blue band.
&dummy=SAMPLE: Here we can add the filter name/filter label and filter values. Multiple filter labels and their respective values can be appended. If there are multiple values, it can be appended like this [‘value1’,’value2’]

Please reach out on support@helicalinsight.com or forum.helicalinsight.com in case of any more questions.

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