Cascading Parameter is the input parameters that are interlinked and upon selecting the first parameter’s value the second input parameter’s value will get changed. For example consider a dashboard having 2 filters i.e. First filter is Continent and second is Country. If the user selects “Asia” in continent, then the Country filter only shows the
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In this blog we are going to provide a high level overview of the self service report creation interface of Helical Insight 5.0. For every sub functionality there are detailed documents which can be referred to. With version 5.0 onwards we have introduced a new version of reporting interface whose description we are going to
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With version 5.0 of Helical Insight we have added a lot of advanced functionality in terms of filter usage. One of those functions is called “Display” and “Value” which we would be explaining how to use. When a filter is added, you can click on these 3 lines as shown in the image and click
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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 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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In this document, we are going to explain about usage of DATE RANGE PICKER component in Dashboard Designer. 1. While creating adhoc report, we have to add 2 different date or date time filters on same date or date time column. 1 filter for Starting Date with condition Greater Than or Equal to and 1
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Canned reports are not self service adhoc reports, these are pixel perfect canned reports and they take more time to develop wherein the alignment, size, repetition etc are specified. Even though they take more time to develop, in this blog, we are going to cover what are the best practices which can be followed for
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In this document we are going to cover the usage of dynamic view with one of the sample example. Also we will discuss about what all are must things for creating the dynamic view. 1. What is dynamic view and how it is different from normal view ? – In normal view, you cannot pass
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We are creating a custom drill down function using java script code , we will explain drill down for pie chart as well as Tabular report. Follow below steps in order to creating custom drill down functionality with child dashboard. Step 1: – Create a Parent Report and apply a filter as per your requirements.
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In this blog we are going to explain how to install 2 instances of helical insight on the same server and same tomcat and same port number but with a different extension. Like below http://localhost:8085/hi-ee -Instance 1 http://localhost:8085/bi-ee -Instance 2 (A) So first of all you will install the first version with hi-ee using the
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