Helical Insight is having various kind of charting options by default present. One of the most commonly used widget is a “Card” widget which can be used to show a single information like the employee name, total revenue, total sales etc. A card widget is used a lot in dashboards. For example: You can refer
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Helical Insight Adhoc reporting interface is having a feature called hidden column. A hidden column allows us to hide a column which can be part of the report selection but it will not be visible in the report as such. For example, We want to arrange according to month number but do not want to
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FOLDER CONCEPT IN HELICAL INSIGHT AND HOW TO ACCESS PUBLIC FOLDER CONTENT. We have a different type of folders like public and private folder. Private Folder: These are the folders which we create for personal use. The files kept in this folder are like reports, dashboards, or metadata will only be available
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In this article, we will see how we can use different filtering conditions for different data types. There can be 3 basic types of data i.e. numeric, textual or date. We will see one by one the filtering conditions for each of these data types. Numeric data Let us consider the ‘sample travel data’ and
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Introduction: Using this blog you will able to enable the Secure Socket Layer(SSL) in the apache-tomcat web server to access the application using HTTPS. This blog is applicable when you are using self-sign certificate and Helical Insight is being used in a stand alone mode not embedded within a third party application. Prerequisite: 1. Java
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Introduction What is SSO ?: Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials. This guide helps you to implement the single sign-on (SSO) using custom token-based authentication, this will results in a user being able to log in to Helical Insight application based
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Cross tabular reports can be used to compare data values for multiple entries in a tabular format. Following are the steps to create a Cross-Tab report: Step 1: Select the columns from the tables that you want to see in the cross-tabular reports Step 2: Click on the CrossTab button as shown below:
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Helical Insight provides a user the flexibility to apply database functions on different data formats like Text, numeric, date, time, date-time, etc. Following are the steps to apply database functions. In the below blog we have shown the steps to apply a single function. But you can also apply multiple nested functions also like outside
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As Helical Insight supports Multi-tenancy, users would like to see data which is relevant to them. For example, Sales managers would like to see the reports/dashboards of sales data, Finance managers would see only financial reports etc. For that, ‘Metadata security’ feature can be used in which user can grant or deny the permission of
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Helical Insight provides the user with the functionality of exporting the Reports/Dashboards into various file formats. Some of the file formats that Helical Insight supports are PDF, JPEG, PNG, Excel etc. Note: Users can also add a new ‘Exporting file format’ like .PPT by using exporting APIs Following are the steps to export a Report/Dashboard:
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