The best open-source business intelligence tool just got better. The intuitive interface now comes with keyboard shortcuts. This blog is relevant to Helical Insight version 5.0 RC 830 build onwards To see the shortcuts hover over the icon and see the shortcut for it and you never need to go back to icon and click
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If you are using SAP HANA and want to use it, in this blog we are covering how to make the connection string as well as make your helical insight instance ready to be used with SAP HANA as a datasource Download the Sap_hana.zip and extract Copy sap.xml and sap.js file into below server path
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In this document we are covering how you can connect to Mongo and another RDBMS (like mysql, oracle, sqlserver etc) and do a crossdb join and create reports. Pre-requisite : – Helical Insight (version 5.0) installed – Apache Drill (version 1.20) installed Useful links : https://www.helicalinsight.com/connecting-mongodb-using-apache-drill/ https://www.helicalinsight.com/drill-installation-helical-insight/ NOTE : Above documents might be using different
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The much-awaited option to have better designing experience is now available in Helical Insight 5.0 RC2 onwards GIT 830 build onwards. Now if something is not the way you imagined it to be, you can simply undo the recent changes. Every action is taken into account, be it application of formatting, changing of color, applying
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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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Before we connect with snowflake let’s understand what is snowflake :- While data is a core asset for modern enterprises, technology’s ability to scale has created a surge of big data. Managing and storing that data has become a critical function for modern business operations. Choosing a data platform that can handle massive volumes of
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Helical Insight application mainly hosted on Apache tomcat application server. There are multiple ways using which we can enable SSL on apache tomcat for ex. HTTPS proxy redirection, AJP redirection, IIS, NGINX, HAProxy, configuring SSL details at apache tomcat level etc. The SSL certificate can be applied at any of the webserver or directly at
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NOTE: From version 5.2.2 of Open Source BI Helical Insight, we have provided DIRECT inbuilt support to REST API driver. This method is much more simpler to use and recommended. Please refer to this link to learn more : https://www.helicalinsight.com/connect-and-use-an-api-as-a-data-source-in-helical-insight-5-0/ If you are using older version or want to use Apache drill, then continue to
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Adding shadow is one of the many right-click operations available for your use. Depending on which object you right-click on (dashboard, report, text, image, group etc), the properties will be applied only to that object Step 1: Right click and select Shadow. This will give you options related to shadow for that component. In this
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