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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Many a times there arise a need to add up additional objects to dashboard, other than reports that we have built up. We may need to add additional text to label up the objects or put up a description or elaborate a report. Other times we may have to add up the organization logo or
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The basis of everything on dashboard is the grid settings for the dashboard, it should be the first setting one should visit so that we can make sure that dashboard works the way we expect it to be. Let us understand what these settings are and how do we make use of it. Right-Click on
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Once you start adding reports or other objects to the dashboard, the primary task is to give them at a proper size and position. Resize and repositioning can be done in multiple ways. You can click and drag or use Alignment option in right-click context menu. Either way, you will be able to perform the
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