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Helical Insight Community Edition
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Pre-Execution in HI Reports

The charting engine provided by default Helical Insight Community Edition is D3 and C3 charts.Anyhow, there will be few requirements which cannot be accomplished with help of default properties.In such cases, we can use ‘JS Editor’ option available and write javascript to achieve that requirement. We can use 4 life cycle events for the report
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Datasource
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Restrict Tables, Catalog, Schema exposed at Metadata via URL

In this blog, we shall show how to restrict the tables, catalog and schema shown at the metadata level via the datasource connection URL. The datasource connection URL can be used to define the tables, catalog and schema that will be exposed or displayed at the metadata level and subsequently the report creation level. Step
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Canned Reports Usage
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Usage of Field Calculations

In canned reports module, there is the option of using calculated fields. The calculations options are available on right click on any component (text or numeric field) on the canvas. In order to apply the calculation on a field, right click on the field, hover to Calculation option and select the calculation you want to
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Datasource
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Connecting Helical Insight to ElasticSearch

In this blog, we will show you how to connect to open source analytics engine, ElasticSearch to Open Source BI product Helical Insight. Follow the below given steps in order to connect Helical Insight to ElasticSearch: Step 1: Download this zip file and extract the contents. Step 2: Go to DataSources page and click on
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Canned Reports Usage
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Inter-Panel Communication on Charts

In this blog we are going to learn how to implement inter panel communication on charts i.e. clicking on one chart the other panels of the dashboard should get updated. In case if you want to implement inter panel communication on table you should refer to this blog For using Inter-panel communication functionality, user needs
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HI
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Session Variable usage in Query View

This blog describes the various attributes of the session variables that can be used in the view of the metadata of Helical Insight. There are four session variables in Helical Insight: user, org, profile and role. The various attributes for each of these are as follows: user: These are attributes related to the users that
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Canned Reports Usage
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Creating Canned Report with Cascading Input Parameters

NOTE: To read about how to use canned reporting in the newer version 6.0 onwards, please read here: Canned Reporting Version 6.0 Onwards Cascading Parameter is the input parameters which are interlinked and upon selecting the first parameter’s value the selected value is passed as a filter in the cascaded parameter and accordingly, the second
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Canned Reports Usage
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Canned Reporting : IMAGE Component

NOTE: If you are using Helical Insight version 6.0 onwards, please refer to this blog: https://www.helicalinsight.com/using-image-component-in-canned-reporting/ NOTE: To read about how to use canned reporting in the newer version 6.0 onwards, please read here: Canned Reporting Version 6.0 Onwards In this blog we are going to cover the points related to the usage of image
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Admin Module
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Remove ROLE_USER as Default Role

Recently we came across one issue which our client has rasied i.e., when we logged into Helical Insight application using SSO then ROLE_USER is setting as default role to that user,so they need to remove that default. To overcome this problem please follow the steps below: Take the backup of below files from respective locations
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Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered