Although we can add header to a report at Dashboard level, a title can be given to a report at the report level also. This can be helpful when you are sharing a single report or embedding it in your own application directly, without putting on dashboard. 1. Adding Title to a report Select the
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In this blog, we will see how to customize the color of any visualization in Helical Insight application. For reference we are taking example of a Grid Chart with option of Bar, we have also added a dimension to Color property of Marks. Select meatball icon on top right. List of additional menu options will
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Line chart (like bar, line, area etc) is a graphical representation of data based on statistics and numerical values. An axis chart uses the 2 axes- x-axis and y-axis to. One of the axes represents the category which we call it a Dimension, while the other axis represents the numerical magnitude of the observation which
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Please note that this blog is for Open Source BI Helical Insight version 5.0 onwards. By default whenever a person views the report, the data gets cached and if another person views the same report the data gets fetched from the cache memory itself. The default cache timeout is 24 hours (which is also configurable)
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Please note that this blog is relevant to version 5.0 or higher of Open Source BI product Helical Insight. A legend gets created when we add fields in Marks option for any visualization. This is useful to display the values which gets generated by different color, size, or other properties. Legends by default goes to
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There are times where we need to change how the dates and numbers appears on the report. Should it be having a thousand separator, round of to 2 decimal places if this number means an accounting unit, if the number is an ID then it should not have any decimal place or separator. If the
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In this blog, you will see how you can connect Snowflake to open source BI product Helical Insight. To connect to Snowflake, follow the steps given below: Step 1: Download this zip file and extract the contents. Step 2: Now connect to Helical Insight server and go to DataSources page and click on “Add Driver”
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with another Open Source BI product Pentaho. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Pentaho performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below. This comparison is
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with another Open Source BI product Jaspersoft. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Jaspersoft performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below. This comparison is
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with Open Source BI product Metabase. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Metabase performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below DEPLOYMENT DEPLOYMENT Technology
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