Before sending a report or dashboard via email or scheduling reports and/or dashboards to be emailed, it is necessary to configure the email ID from which these emails will be sent. In order to do this, open the mailConfiguration.properties file present at .. \hi\hi-repository\System\Mail\ You will see the following: Provide the details of your email
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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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Update License in Helical Insight This Article will help you in deploying Helical Insight license in the enterprise version. Get the Licence file. The license file name will be “hdi.licence” Go to the below-mentioned application path In Windows: “..\Helical Insight\hi\apache-tomcat-9\webapps\hi-ee” In Ubuntu: “..\Helical Insight\hi\apache-tomcat-9\webapps\hi-ee” Copy the hdi.licence file and paste in the above-mentioned directory Restart
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When the user exports dashboard, a snapshot of the dashboard is taken and then stored in the selected format. However, if a user wants data from the tables on the dashboard to be exported, it is not possible for the entire dashboard. This is because there are a number of different reports on the dashboard
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This blog is relevant to version 4.1 or older version of Helical Insight Enterprise version. Rounding Decimal Values in Card Widget Using JS Post-Fetch Method in Helical Insight Application Open the application create a sample card visualization To apply rounding functionality using js post fetch method Open the editor and paste the below script hi_container.set("postFetch",function(c){
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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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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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Authentication Token requirements for SSO with HI application Token Format: Company=<tenant_name>|username=<username>|role=<role1,role2..>|profilename1=<profilevalue1,profilevalue2>|profilename2=<profilevalue3,profilevalue4>expTime=<timestamp> Company=<organization_name>|username=<username>|role=<role1,role2..> |expTime=<timestamp> Token mainly comprises of 5 parts separated by a “|” (pipe separator). Token Encryption Token generated in the given format, has to be encrypted to make it secure. Chosen Encryption Algorithm details: Algorithm – AES Mode – ECB Padding – PKCS5Padding Secret
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There are various methods of integrating Helical Insight. One of the methods is using object tag which we would be discussing here. Following are the steps to achieve : Create a report or dashboard using Helical Insight which you want to integrate. Right click on the report or dashboard and open it in a new
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