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Dashboard Designer Best Practices

In this blog we are going to cover the best practices which you should follow while creating a dashboard using dashboard designer of Helical Insight so that by default it looks professional and aesthetically appealing: On right-click on any component on the dashboard, a user gets option to change the header, background, alignment of the

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Connect to SQL Spark using Helical Insight Application

In this blog we will cover how to connect Open Source BI product Helical Insight application with SQL Spark database. Click on “Data Sources” page. The list of Data sources is present as a collection of icons for each database. Click on “Hive”. Advanced: If you have any advanced settings required to access your database,

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How to Delete an Applied Database Function in Helical Insight

Once you have created a report using applied database function there might be a need to delete the applied DB function or change those values. In this blog, we will learn how we can go about doing the same. Below is the snapshot of the report which is created by applying Database function on one

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Impersonate Mimic User in Helical Insight

In this blog we shall see how Impersonate/Mimic feature works in Open Source BI product Helical Insight. The impersonate feature has been added to Helical Insight so that when an admin applies certain security conditions for a user/shares certain resources with a user, he can then see via this functionality whether the same have been

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Connecting to Google Big Query using Helical Insight

In this blog, we will provide steps to connect to google big query data source connection in Helical Insight Open Source BI application Prerequsite: Helical Insight is successfully installed Login to BigQuery Web UI, and create dataset and tables by following below link: Create dataset in BigQuery Download required of simba JDBC driver for big

Big Data, big query, big query connection, business intelligence, open source