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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NOTE: From version 5.2.2 of Open Source BI Helical Insight, we have provided DIRECT inbuilt support to REST API driver. This method is much more simpler to use and recommended. Please refer to this link to learn more : https://www.helicalinsight.com/connect-and-use-an-api-as-a-data-source-in-helical-insight-5-0/ If you are using older version or want to use Apache drill, then continue to
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Adding shadow is one of the many right-click operations available for your use. Depending on which object you right-click on (dashboard, report, text, image, group etc), the properties will be applied only to that object Step 1: Right click and select Shadow. This will give you options related to shadow for that component. In this
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Many a times there arise a need to add up additional objects to dashboard, other than reports that we have built up. We may need to add additional text to label up the objects or put up a description or elaborate a report. Other times we may have to add up the organization logo or
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