This blog is relevant to Helical Insight version 5.0 and upwards. In Helical Insight version 5.0 onwards filters are identified by their filter names. If your dashboard is having 5 reports and all of the reports have a filter with filterlabel “Country”. Then changing the value of the filter Country at dashboard level will change
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This document is applicble to Helical Insight version 5.0 and onwards. In this document we are going to use JS and CSS to customize the login page. We use CSS for styling and JS for changing the actual content of an element in the DOM. Customization with CSS : 1. To style the total background
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It is possible to add one or multiple filters in Helical Insight. By default all the filters gets added in AND expression i.e. Filter1 AND Filter2 AND Filter3 which means it shows an overlap of data wherein all the filtering conditions value gets satisfied. But in some cases we may want to change and use
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From the version 5.2 onwards of Open Source BI Helical Insight, we are directly supporting DuckDB out of the box. Hence the steps mentioned in this blog are not required. In the below image we have highlighted from where you can find out about the current version of your Helical Insight instance. Connection string looks
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On charts/tables/visualization we support UTF-8 character, that means whichever language you have the data in, it will appear exactly in the same format in the visualizations. Even the text components or headers or column headers alias etc which you are adding at report/dashboard it can be in anylanguage. However, by default Open Source BI Helical
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In Open Source BI product Helical Insight version 5.0 built 1083 onwards, we had added a new functionality called “Reference Line” option. This allows you to add a new reference line which can often be helpful in doing the comparison. Navigate to Marks by clicking on the 3 dots(meatball icon) that appear beside Visualization. Within
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This property is valid for Open Source BI product Helical Insight version 5.0 1083 build onwards. By default records per page is 10 but in some cases you may want that the report should open, by default, with some other number of records per page. But using this option you can select how many records
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In the Open source BI product Helical Insight version 5.0 build 1083 onwards we have introduced concept of Recycle Bin. It will have same functionality as any recycle bin. If you delete any report, dashboard, folders, metadata or datasource connection etc it will not be removed completely, it will get stored in recycle bin. From
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In this blog we will learn how to use ‘Table’ property to give users the ability to set the number of records per page. Note :This property is applicable for Table only. 1. Open the Reports Module/Tab in Helical Insight and connect with already created Metadata(from SampleTravelData database). 2. Add travel_id column to column shelves
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From version 5.0 onwards of helical insight we are by default supporting ElasticSearch and OpenSearch. However if you are using an older version of Helical Insight this document can help you understand how to connect and use. 1. Download the Elastic_Search.zip and extract 2. Copy elasticsearchsql.xml and elasticsearchsql.js file into below server path ....\hi\hi-repository\System\Admin\SqlFunctions" 3.
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