Helical Insight is the future of Business Intelligence (BI) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as it offers advanced features, ease of use, affordability, scalability, security, and customization in one solution and cost negligible as compared to any other off the shelf product in this industry. Its intuitive dashboards, customizable reports, and data visualization tools
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This blog will show how to create a dashboard group and what all editing features can be applied to the dashboard group. A group is a collection of objects on a dashboards like reports, charts, tables, even image components or text components etc. We can have individual set of reports grouped together and placed at
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Although we can add header to a report at Dashboard level, a title can be given to a report at the report level also. This can be helpful when you are sharing a single report or embedding it in your own application directly, without putting on dashboard. 1. Adding Title to a report Select the
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In this blog, we will see how to customize the color of any visualization in Helical Insight application. For reference we are taking example of a Grid Chart with option of Bar, we have also added a dimension to Color property of Marks. Select meatball icon on top right. List of additional menu options will
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Line chart (like bar, line, area etc) is a graphical representation of data based on statistics and numerical values. An axis chart uses the 2 axes- x-axis and y-axis to. One of the axes represents the category which we call it a Dimension, while the other axis represents the numerical magnitude of the observation which
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Please note that this blog is for Open Source BI Helical Insight version 5.0 onwards. By default whenever a person views the report, the data gets cached and if another person views the same report the data gets fetched from the cache memory itself. The default cache timeout is 24 hours (which is also configurable)
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Please note that this blog is relevant to version 5.0 or higher of Open Source BI product Helical Insight. A legend gets created when we add fields in Marks option for any visualization. This is useful to display the values which gets generated by different color, size, or other properties. Legends by default goes to
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NOTE: Starting from version 5.2.3, a few more options have been introduced to enhance functionality. There are times where we need to change how the dates and numbers appears on the report. Should it be having a thousand separator, round of to 2 decimal places if this number means an accounting unit, if the number
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In this blog, you will see how you can connect Snowflake to open source BI product Helical Insight. To connect to Snowflake, follow the steps given below: Step 1: Download this zip file and extract the contents. Step 2: Now connect to Helical Insight server and go to DataSources page and click on “Add Driver”
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Discover Helical Insight, the leading open source alternative to Tableau. Enjoy all the features you need at a fraction of the price. Contact us at support@helicalinsight.com for more information.
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