Introduction: In this blog we are going to explain how to create a bar chart which represents the Source wise Cost of Travel with a filter based on Journey_type (multi-select). Please make sure you have gone through the blog “Introduction to Community Reporting Interface” Steps to Creating Bar chart (Axis chart) with Multi Select Parameter
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In this blog we are going to cover how to improve the performance of your Helical Insight instance. When all of these steps are followed it will improve the performance a lot. a. Cache preparation and speeding up the cache preparation:As soon as a user creates the database connection on our datasource page our application
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How to Add Customized Cache Refresh Button at Dashboard Level in Helical Insight Application In below blog, we are going to explain how the dashboard can be refreshed on HTML button click in Helical Insight application Create a sample dashboard (see the screenshot) Open the dashboard in edit mode Create HTML component in the dashboard
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By default Open Source BI product Helical Insight gets installed on Apache Tomcat. In this blog, we will learn how to migrate this from Apache Tomcat to Apache web server. For Apache Web server default HTTP Port is: 80 and default HTTPS port is: 443. Similarly for Apache Tomcat default HTTP port is 8080 and
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From version 5.0 of Helical Insight Enterprise Edition, the entire method of implementing cascading input parameters has been simplified and it can be acheived from the UI itself. Please refer to this blog to learn how to do that. If you are using an older version you can go read further. Cascading Parameter is the
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FOLDER CONCEPT IN HELICAL INSIGHT AND HOW TO ACCESS PUBLIC FOLDER CONTENT. We have a different type of folders like public and private folder. Private Folder: These are the folders which we create for personal use. The files kept in this folder are like reports, dashboards, or metadata will only be available
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Users can now directly use flat files like CSV, JSON, Parquet, TSV, Avro and Sequence Files which are uploaded in AWS S3 instance and using the same they can create reports/dashboards inside Helical Insight. Following steps need to be followed. Step 1: Download, install and start Apache Drill. To learn How to Install Drill. Step
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Introduction: Helical Insight metadata connects with a database which is predefined. Now there might be certain cases in which we would like the metadata to connect to different data sources based on certain condition, for example, different organization etc. Here we have explained how the metadata is connected to different data sources based on logged
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NOTE: This blog is relevant to version 3.0, 3.1, 4.0 and 4.1 of Helical Insight and will not work for any other version. You can know the version from the bottom left (above file browser) or from the admin page. By default there is a page which appears when a user login as administrator or
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By default Helical Insight is accessible using IPaddress:portnumber/applicationextension like 192.169.2.164:8085/hi-ee/. In this document, we have tried to cover one of the use cases of providing sub-domain name instead of IP address or localhost like using login.abc.com rather than the actual IPaddress. Open the file server.xml which is present at the location given below: Location:: \hi\apache-tomcat-7\conf
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