Helical Insight application version 2.0 executable comes with jetty web server and derby database. Jetty is the webserver and derby database holds information about users and roles. If a user wants they can migrate from jetty to Tomcat and similarly from Derby to some other database. The same details are elaborated in this blog. Part
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We can access report created using Helical Insight application publicly through URL: To get URL of the report you have to follow below steps: 1. Open the file browser and search for the report/dashboard you want to share publicly. 2. Right click on the report/dashboard and open it in a new window. This way you
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Introduction: In certain cases you may want to embed Adhoc reporting interface of Helical Insight inside your application thus empowering your end users to create reports on the fly. But in those cases you want them to be able to create report using only a preselected metadata. This blog will help in creating the adhoc
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In the below blog we will cover the steps to migrate your Helical Insight application to version 3.0. Before starting the migration, please take the backup of following files/folders. 1. Helical Insight Repository (which contains all reports, dashboard, metadata and other work related files) Path in Windows: “..\hi\hi-repository” Path in Linux: “../hi/hi-repository” 2. Take backup
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Introduction: Using this blog you will able to enable the Secure Socket Layer(SSL) in the apache-tomcat web server to access the application using HTTPS. This blog is applicable when you are using self-sign certificate and Helical Insight is being used in a stand alone mode not embedded within a third party application. Prerequisite: 1. Java
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Introduction What is SSO ?: Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials. This guide helps you to implement the single sign-on (SSO) using custom token-based authentication, this will results in a user being able to log in to Helical Insight application based
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Following are the steps to add/edit report border: Step 1: Click on the Customize button Step 2: Double-click on Border icon Step 3: Select the border size, color and type of border and the click on ‘OK’ Step 4: Now click on the apply tick mark as shown in the image below to generate the
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Following are the steps to add/edit report sub-heading: Step 1: Click on the Customize button Step 2: Double-click on Report Sub-Heading icon Step 3: Enter the text for the report sub-heading and choose the font type, size, color, alignment etc. and click on ‘OK’ Step 4: Now click on the apply tick mark as shown
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Cross tabular reports can be used to compare data values for multiple entries in a tabular format. Following are the steps to create a Cross-Tab report: Step 1: Select the columns from the tables that you want to see in the cross-tabular reports Step 2: Click on the CrossTab button as shown below:
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In this article we will be explaining about Time Series chart and when to use it. A Time Series chart is a graph that you can use to evaluate patterns and behaviour in data over time. Time Series chart displays observation on the y-axis against equally spaced time intervals on the x-axis. Time Series charts
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