In this blog, we will learn how to use date filter and the various kind of functions which are available on this kind of data. With version 5.0 onwards, Helical Insight is providing a lot of prebuilt date/date time functions for quick filtering along with a new UI for user selection. Below you can see
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In this document we will be covering how to create a drill through report. Refer to our other blog to learn how to implement drill down in helical insight version 5.0 Note: Difference between Drill Down vs Drill Through. Note: Drill Down and Drill Through can only be applied on Table, CrossTab and GridChart visualizations.
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In this blog, you will learn about how to use Apply before Aggregate function. Basically this can be used to specify the sequence in which we would like to apply the dbfunctions along with aggregate functions i.e. whether first aggregate function should get applied or whether first DBfunctions should get applied. Let us understand with
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Following are the steps to add a Header to a Dashboard. This below UI is available from the version 5.0 onwards of Helical Insight: The header option allows giving the entire dashboard or individual components a header, based on where we have right clicked and specifying the configurations. Right-click on the dashboard designer page, when
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Helical Insight supports various relational, columnar, NoSQL databases as well as flat files. This blog shows how to connect to MS Access in Helical Insight. Step 1:Go to the Datasources page and click on MS Access. You will be prompted to download the relevant database driver. Download the driver from the link on our blog
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In the below blog we will cover the steps to migrate your Helical Insight application to version 3.0. Before starting the migration, please take the backup of following files/folders. 1. Helical Insight Repository (which contains all reports, dashboard, metadata and other work related files) Path in Windows: “..\hi\hi-repository” Path in Linux: “../hi/hi-repository” 2. Take backup
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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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