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Helical Canned Reports: When to Use

Helical Insight 4.0 onwards we provide various methods of reports creation which includes Adhoc Interface, Community Report and Canned Report interface. In this blog we are going to explain when it is ideal to use Canned Reporting interface. If your requirement is more on the data visualization and dashboard then Adhoc interface as well as

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Creating Canned Reports with Multi-Select Checkbox

Canned reporting interface provides one more method of implementing multiselect parameter and that is using checkbox. In this blog we are going to cover how to implement the same. Below is a snapshot of how the checkbox input parameter looks like STEP 1: Create a connection To know more about the types of datasource connections

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Creating Canned Reports with Date Picker as Input Parameters

In this blog we will see how to create a canned report with a date picker as input parameter. We will give an end user an option to select the date, and all the data greater than that specific date will be available in the report. STEP 1: Create a connection To know more about

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Creating Canned Reports with Single Select Input Parameters

In this blog we shall see how to create canned reports with input parameters with single select. STEP 1: Create a connection To know more about the types of datasource connections that can be established, refer to the blog. STEP 2: Write a query without using parameter/where clause After providing the connection details in the

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Creating Canned Reports with a Date Range selector Input Parameters

In this blog we will see how to create a canned report with a date range selector as input parameter. STEP 1: Create a connection To know more about the types of datasource connections that can be established, refer to the blog. STEP 2: Write a query without using parameter/where clause After providing the connection

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