In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with Open Source BI product Superset. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where superset performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below DEPLOYMENT Technology Stack: Helical
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Helical Insight application mainly hosted on Apache tomcat application server. There are multiple ways using which we can enable SSL on apache tomcat for ex. HTTPS proxy redirection, AJP redirection, IIS, NGINX, HAProxy, configuring SSL details at apache tomcat level etc. The SSL certificate can be applied at any of the webserver or directly at
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In this blog we are going to cover how to connect to an API / HTTP requests from Open Source BI product Helical Insight and use that to create reports. Introduction : Apache drill has introduced HTTP storage plugin from drill version 1.18 and onwards. The HTTP storage plugin lets you query APIs over HTTP/REST.
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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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The basis of everything on dashboard is the grid settings for the dashboard, it should be the first setting one should visit so that we can make sure that dashboard works the way we expect it to be. Let us understand what these settings are and how do we make use of it. Right-Click on
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Once you start adding reports or other objects to the dashboard, the primary task is to give them at a proper size and position. Resize and repositioning can be done in multiple ways. You can click and drag or use Alignment option in right-click context menu. Either way, you will be able to perform the
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In this blog we are going to cover some of the advanced filtering options When we add filters, few more additional options have been added for more granular control. This option gives you additional control over your filters and its application to the reports Unique a. If this option is checked, system will generate unique
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The new Visualization option introduced in Helical Insight is that of Card widget. It gives an option to generate a single value output for reports. Like total sales of current month, or Profit YTD. It generates the single value output as shown below. There is even an option of adding a subchart kind of option
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This topic will show you how the Inter Panel Communication (IPC) works on Dashboards of Helical Insight 5.0 onwards. With interpanel communication you can click on one of the places in the chart of dashboard and the other charts can accordingly get filtered and will show filtered out data. From version 5.0 onwards the entire
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