The best open-source business intelligence tool just got better. The intuitive interface now comes with keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts makes the entire process of using the application much more easier, smoother and more importantly faster. Please note that this is applicable to Helical Insight version 5.0 GIT 830 build onwards. To see the shortcuts
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This blog is only relevant in case of version 4.1. In certain cases we will use EFWD mechanism to fetch dashboard filters data for more advanced use cases. What we want to do is we will be getting the profile values via SSO token and we want that the profile value from token should get
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The much-awaited option to have better designing experience is now available in Helical Insight 5.0 RC2 GIT 830 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 resizing or repositioning of reports, changing attributes, adding or
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With version 5.0 onwards we have revamped the entire UX of dashboard designer and made it much more smoother and easier to use. On the dashboard designer page, there are multiple operations and functionalities which can be done by right-clicking. Now on whatever component the right click happens, the functionality/UX changes get applied to that
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At the dashboard level we given an option of applying HTML, CSS and JS. At the entire dashboard we can apply these code or we can also simply right click and apply as well for any specific component. Browser console can also be used to inspect and findout the div id, class, html tag etc
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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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In this blog we will cover how to show a report in dashboard only when a value in the filter is selected in the open source BI product Helical Insight. Otherwise the chart should be in invisible mode and not visible. When filter value is selected then only the chart should render. Go to the
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In this blog, we will see how to set the background color for report in Helical Insight. The background customization script can be applied on all the charts. In order to use the customization script, click on “Customize” button on report create or report edit page. Note that if you are going to use this
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In this blog, we shall see how to customize the marker for the gauge chart in Helical Insight. The customization is same for both linear and circular gauge. The steps are exactly the same for both linear and circular gauge. In order to apply customization, click on the “Customize” button on report create or report
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Introduction: In many cases we would like to display the filters values which have been selected at a specific place. So in this blog we would describe how that can be done. Concept: Via dashboard.getVariables(NameOfFilterVariable) we can get the values of the selected filters. Fo what we can do is we can create some HTML
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