In this blog, we have discussed the steps involved in connecting Helical Insight to Apache Druid. In order to start creating analytics with Apache Druid, follow the below given steps: 1. Download this folder Druid_Configure Files.zip and unzip it. 2. The file named “avatica-1.17.0.jar” is the JDBC driver for Apache Druid. Upload the JDBC Driver
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In this post (Accessing Reports / Dashboards Created Using Helical Insight Publicly), we were passing authentication details (username and password) in the URL along with directory and file name. In this post, we hide those authentication details and just pass directory and file name to the URL. We will write a simple JavaScript code that
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In this article we will cover how to use Mongo Db 3.4.3(plus) version with SSL enabled using Helical Insight. Follow the below steps to use Mango 3.4.3(plus) with SSL Step1: Go to the Helical Insight tomcat lib location Location: C:\Helical Insight\apache-tomcat-7\webapps\hi\WEB-INF\lib Step2: Take the backup of the below jar files from above location calcite-mongodb-1.8.2.jar mongo-java-driver-2.14.3.jar
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There might be certain cases in which people might be interested in embedding report / dashboard built using Helical Insight solution on their website which can then be used by anybody, without the need to login i.e. it should be accessible publicly. In this article we will cover how to access report/dashboard created using Helical
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We Can Use Neo4j Graph Database with EFW reports: Note: This blog is applicable for HI Version Helical Insight v1.0.0 Follow these steps to use Neo4j Graph database with helical insight: Step 1: First we have to Download Neo4j JDBC driver to Neo4j graph database with HI You can download Neo4j driver from here Step
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NOTE: This blog is relevant to version 1.0 of Helical Insight and will not work for any other version. You can know the version from the bottom left (above file browser) or from the admin page. Note: This article doesn’t change any functionality or styles of normal application flow. Instead, changes are made in such
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In this article, you will learn about the role of EFW file in a report creation. The EFW file is an XML file which serves as the entry point for the report. This file contains the information required to run the report. Below is the code for sample efw file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <efw>
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Till now we have created reports and dashboards by downloading and editing the files of Template folder. We are using D3, C3 and datatables for visualization purposes, those relevant CSS and JS files are linked in the template.html file. You might be interested in creating reports and dashboards in your own folder. Below steps will
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Now, that we have made a dashboard with multiple reports (How To Create Dashboard In Helical Insight CE), we will see how we can change the look and feel of the dashboard by adding color, images etc. Since the customization is done in an HTML markup, user can easily add any JavaScript functionalities in<script> tag
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The charting engine which we are by default providing with Helical Insight Community Edition is D3 and C3 charts. Being a BI framework we allow you the flexibility to add any sort of javascripting charting engine. In this article we will cover how you can customize the look and feel of these default charts to
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