Helical Insight gives user an advantage to add JavaScript and CSS in the adhoc interface to make customization’s in the report. Users can also view the SQL query generated for the report. Following are the steps to customize report using JavaScript and CSS: Step 1: After a report is generated, click on ‘Editor’ button from
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A View is a virtual table based on the result set of an SQL statement. It is primarily used for designing complex reports which are a bit difficult to achieve using the drag drop interface. The output structure of those SQLviews are saved as a separate table in the metadata which can then in-turn be
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The ad-hoc interface for creating reports looks like: Tables/columns panel: All the tables and the columns under them can be seen in this panel on the left. Users can use these columns to create a report. Selection area: This is an area where all the columns selected for creating reports are
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In this article you will learn about customizing charts and data table using Adhoc of Helical Insight. In Adhoc, a user can generate various reports.
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A lot of coding best practices emphasize keeping code lean and well organized. The general practices within HTML are no different.
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Different functions like sum, group by, and Count etc. can be applied to the variables. If the user drags or selects a column in the selection area, a function would be applied to that column by default, depending upon the type of variable. Mostly, a group by function is applied automatically for categorical variables and
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Following are the mathematical functions that can be applied to the column: Group by Sum Distinct Count Max/Min Avg Users can observe that by default, categorical variables take ‘Group by’ function and Numerical variables take ‘Sum’ function. These default applied functions can be seen and changed in the Meta data file which is present in
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Metadata is basically a logical DB schema which gets stored locally in the backend DB of Helical Insight and allows users to define which tables, columns they would want to keep. Thus, different Metadata can be created for the different set of users like finance metadata, sales metadata, operations metadata which then can be shared
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In this blog, we will how to connect to a data source in Helical Insight. Overview of Data Sources Tab The list of Data sources is present as a collection of icons for each database. User can search for the data source by typing in the search box. User can also search based on type
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Custom column feature allows user to create a separate derived column which could be required for creating adhoc reports. This is useful when the data is required in different format as that of present in the database. Some use cases of Custom column are mentioned below: We have ‘time of call’ in the database. Let
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