How we can open Saved Reports using “Open” & “Open in a new window” options and Data can be exported in XLS, CSV, PDF formats at individual Report levels in the following manner: 1. Go to File Browser on the Home Page (present at the bottom left). 2. Browse to the Desired Report/dashboard. Select it,
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Note: These features are present as part of version 5.0 onwards. A numeric field is called as a measure and non-numeric (like varchar, text, date etc) field is categorized as dimension. Whenever a measure is dragged by default the helical Insight application applies aggregate function i.e. sum on top of it. But in some cases
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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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Based on the kind of data that has been used as a filter, we get various kind of filtering condition. In this blog we will cover the same. There can be 3 basic types of data i.e., numeric, textual, or date. We will see one by one the filtering conditions for each of these data
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With version 5.0 of Helical Insight onwards we have introduced a different method of implementing drill down and drill through making the entire process much more smooth and simple to implement. Note: Difference between Drill Down vs Drill Through. In Drill Down, we go to a granular level of information within same chart. We can
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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 document we will be covering how to create a drill through report. Refer to our other blog to learn how to implement drill down in helical insight version 5.0 Note: Difference between Drill Down vs Drill Through. Note: Drill Down and Drill Through can only be applied on Table, CrossTab and GridChart visualizations.
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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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