Open source BI product Helical Insight from it’s Enterprise Edition 5.2.2 onwards is providing support for connecting to and using REST APIs as a data source. We support GET and POST requests. In this tutorial we would be covering how to use API as a data source. We are providing detailed information on how to
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This blog is relevant to Helical Insight version 5.0 and upwards. In Helical Insight version 5.0 onwards filters are identified by their filter names. If your dashboard is having 5 reports and all of the reports have a filter with filterlabel “Country”. Then changing the value of the filter Country at dashboard level will change
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This document is applicble to Helical Insight version 5.0 and onwards. In this document we are going to use JS and CSS to customize the login page. We use CSS for styling and JS for changing the actual content of an element in the DOM. Customization with CSS : 1. To style the total background
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On charts/tables/visualization we support UTF-8 character, that means whichever language you have the data in, it will appear exactly in the same format in the visualizations. Even the text components or headers or column headers alias etc which you are adding at report/dashboard it can be in anylanguage. However, by default Open Source BI Helical
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From the version 5.0 onwards, in Open Source BI Helical Insight, we have introduced a UI driven method of implementation of relative dates. Relative dates are helpful when you want that the report/dashboard should automatically show data for a specific range when it opens like “Last 7 days”, “Last 1 month”, “Last 3 hours”, “Next
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In Open Source BI product Helical Insight version 5.0 built 1083 onwards, we had added a new functionality called “Reference Line” option. This allows you to add a new reference line which can often be helpful in doing the comparison. Navigate to Marks by clicking on the 3 dots(meatball icon) that appear beside Visualization. Within
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Login to GoogleAnalytics by using your Google credentials,below is the link of that site, https://analytics.google.com/ You will see home page click on start measure. Next,You Have to enter Account Details like a name to Identify the project which you want to track, Enter the name and click on next button. Next, Enter Property Detail like
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Note : Enable SSO in helical Insight before calling SSO post request https://www.helicalinsight.com/implementing-single-sign-sso-helical-insight-application/ If we want to create a sso user using ajax post request, we should call the request as mentioned below Sample code for calling sso code with post request : url : Helical Insight BI URL authToken : SSO token var settings
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NOTE: From version 5.2.1, we have added option of specifying the tick size and color which we have covered at the end of the blog. These, as the name suggests, will be applicable for your axis charts like: Line Charts, Bar Charts, Area Charts etc of Open Source BI product Helical Insight v 5.0 GA
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These, as the name suggests, will be applicable for your axis charts where data label should be vertical instead of horizontal. This property is available on Open Source BI Product Helical Insight version 5.0 GA onwards. Prepare your report with the data label turned on, in order to enable data label use the “Label” option
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