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Shortcuts in Adhoc reports interface

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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Data CSV export at Adhoc report

Introduction: – Most of the users are using dashboards. If we want to give an option to an end user so that they can export the data (in CSV) form of individual reports at the dashboard level. Right now, the CSV export at dashboard level is taking a snapshot and exporting it. This is especially
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Open source Alternative to Oracle Reports

Oracle recently released the “Deprecation Notice for Oracle Reports”. As released by Oracle: Oracle Fusion Middleware’s 12c R2 release (12.2.1.3.0) will be Oracle Reports terminal release. You are advised to use or migrate to Oracle BI Publisher for reporting purposes. Oracle BI Publisher is Oracle’s strategic product for enterprise reporting. This reporting solution allows authoring,
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MIGRATION TO Helical Insight EE version 4.1.1.18666GA

Here we will cover the steps about how to migrate your Helical Insight application from an Older version to Helical Insight EE version 4.1.1.18666GA. (released on 24 Aug 2021). With this specific version we have migrated globalConnection.xml to database resulting in better performance and concurrency, pagination at the metadata level and fixing of some other
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Remove ROLE_USER as Default Role

Recently we came across one issue which our client has rasied i.e., when we logged into Helical Insight application using SSO then ROLE_USER is setting as default role to that user,so they need to remove that default. To overcome this problem please follow the steps below: Take the backup of below files from respective locations
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Organization Tab Functionalities

The Organization Tab in Helical Insight is a place where an Organization Lists are managed such as Add New Organization, Delete existing organization and Search in the organization list. Who Manage the Organizations  The organizations are managed by the SuperAdmin. Superadmin is a user with Role as “Admin” but no organization is assigned to him.
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Difference between Superadmin and Admin

Super Admin: An User who does not belong any Organisation and has the highest authority of all. When a Super Admin logs in, the landing page looks like this: Tasks which Super Admin can perform: Organizations Management  ( Add, Delete, Edit, Search organization) Users Management (Add, Edit, Delete, Search Users) Roles Management (Add, Delete, Search
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Search Functionality

In this article, you will learn search functionality. There is a search functionality present at the bottom of the dashboard. Place your cursor in the search bar,  By selecting in what category you want to search (“Reports”, “Dashboards”, “Metadata”,) and then search operation can be done. For more info, contact us at demo@helicalinsight.com
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How to delete a user

In this article you will learn how to delete a user from the existing list. Users Management Tab View Click on Delete button. A confirmation message box appears with the option to either cancel this operation or go ahead and delete the user. Once a user is deleted, a confirmation popup appears on the bottom right
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Adding a new user

To add a new user, click on User Management Tab. After that, click on the Add button and select User. Now a window will pop up which will look like this: Select the Organisation from the list; enter the correct details of the users in the fields shown above and click on save. Admin can
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Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered