Open Source BI product Helical Insight comes with various kind of charts tables and crosstab (pivot) options for visualizing the data. Helical Insight also gives you the option of integrating an external JS chart also in case if you are looking for something which is not directly possible. For this, we are using VF/Visualization Framework.
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Problem Statement: Whenever there is a huge data in Select2 input control, the dashboard/report freezes for sometime or takes time to respond back i.e., when clicked on Select2, it takes lots of time to open and display the dropdown values. Solution: In order to handle huge data in Select2 input control, which has Infinite scroll,
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In this blog, we will see how to pass filters values in the URL for different types of filters. Whenever we want to pass parameters values in the URL, we need to append the filter label along with the value in the URL. This is applicable for reports created using Adhoc interface, ReportsCE interface and
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Below are the steps in order to provide SQL Server 2017 Database as Datasource in SQL Server Installation of SQL Server Download the JDBC driver for SQL Server http://clojars.org/repo/com/microsoft/sqlserver/sqljdbc4/4.0/sqljdbc4-4.0.jar Add this downloaded driver in \hi\hi-repository\System\Drivers Open Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Defender Firewall Turn off the Firewall Click on Advanced Settings 6. Right click on Inbound
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The charting engine provided by default Helical Insight Community Edition is D3 and C3 charts.Anyhow, there will be few requirements which cannot be accomplished with help of default properties.In such cases, we can use ‘JS Editor’ option available and write javascript to achieve that requirement. We can use 4 life cycle events for the report
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In this blog we are going to learn how to implement inter panel communication on charts i.e. clicking on one chart the other panels of the dashboard should get updated. In case if you want to implement inter panel communication on table you should refer to this blog For using Inter-panel communication functionality, user needs
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Migrate Helical Insight To Version 4.0 From Older Version
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This blog describes the various attributes of the session variables that can be used in the view of the metadata of Helical Insight. There are four session variables in Helical Insight: user, org, profile and role. The various attributes for each of these are as follows: user: These are attributes related to the users that
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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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Helical Insight application is having validations on each and every page and actions. This blog elaborates how you can disable those validations, change the messages etc related to validations. The validation logic which is needed to validate different inputs and modules in Helical Insight can be configured in Validation.xml file. <p.‘Validation.xml file’ is located at
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