This article will help users to understand how to apply data labels for axis charts. Following are the steps to set data labels: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button. Step 2: Now select the data label option by double-clicking on it Step 3: Click
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This article will help users understand how to Combination charts. Combinations charts can be used in cases where there are two numerical variables and one categorical variable. In these cases users could then create a chart with multiple types of visualizations. Following are the steps to create a combination chart: Step 1: Create any axis
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This article will help users to understand how to rotate axis ticks. Following are the steps to rotate axis ticks: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button Step 2: Now select the Axis tick rotation option by double-clicking on it Step 3: Select the angle
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This article will help users to understand how to create a Multi-axis chart. Multi-axis charts can be useful when there are 2 numerical variables and a single categorical variable. These two numerical variables then can be shown on two separate Y-axes with a common X-axis (categorical variable). Example: Let’s say, we want to show the
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Introduction: Helical Insight metadata connects with a database which is predefined. Now there might be certain cases in which we would like the metadata to connect to different datasources based on certain condition. For example : In healthcare industry the data of the hospital can not go outside the hospital premises. In that case, based
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Requirement: Java 1.7+ Download Helical Insight 2.0 executable and save it in your desired location. In order to install hi-ee using command line 1. Open command prompt (windows) or / terminal (linux and MAC). 2. Go to the location where you have saved Helical Insight 2.0 via terminal/command prompt. Type “java -jar helicalinsight-ee-2.0.0.6954 RC1”. (name
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Helical Insight application version 2.0 executable comes with jetty web server and derby database. Jetty is the webserver and derby database holds information about users and roles. If a user wants they can migrate from jetty to Tomcat and similarly from Derby to some other database. The same details are elaborated in this blog. Part
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We can access report created using Helical Insight application publicly through URL: To get URL of the report you have to follow below steps: 1. Open the file browser and search for the report/dashboard you want to share publicly. 2. Right click on the report/dashboard and open it in a new window. This way you
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Introduction: In certain cases you may want to embed Adhoc reporting interface of Helical Insight inside your application thus empowering your end users to create reports on the fly. But in those cases you want them to be able to create report using only a preselected metadata. This blog will help in creating the adhoc
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In the below blog we will cover the steps to migrate your Helical Insight application to version 3.0. Before starting the migration, please take the backup of following files/folders. 1. Helical Insight Repository (which contains all reports, dashboard, metadata and other work related files) Path in Windows: “..\hi\hi-repository” Path in Linux: “../hi/hi-repository” 2. Take backup
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