NOTE: This blog is relevant to version 1.0 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. Note: This article doesn’t change any functionality or styles of normal application flow. Instead, changes are made in such
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In this article, you will learn about the role of EFW file in a report creation. The EFW file is an XML file which serves as the entry point for the report. This file contains the information required to run the report. Below is the code for sample efw file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <efw>
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This article shows how to connect Helical Insight Application with a MongoDB datasource. In Helical Insight version 1.0.1 beta currently we are not providing a UI for directly connecting to MongoDB which we are working upon. Meanwhile MongoDB datasource usage inside Helical Insight is a backend process. There are 2 file types required for proper
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In our earlier blog “EFW for Creating a Report“, we have discussed about how to create a report using EFW and necessary files required to implement it. For creating a Tabular report using EFW method, there are 4 files required to visualize it which are EFW (.efw) – Entry point of the report. It contains
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Add New Database: Helical Insight supports a variety of databases, it also gives you the flexibility of adding all together a new DB even if it is not present in the list. If your database is not found in the list that comes out-of-the-box, you can add the driver by following the process given below:
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In our earlier articles, we have talked about how to connect single datasource using Helical Insight. This article talks about how to connect multiple datasources using Helical Insight v1.0.1 .In this case we have referred CSV and MySQL as a datasources. Steps: Create a folder inside HI Repository. In this case, we have created a
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Steps: Login into Helical Insight Application. Click on the Datasource tab Now click on the “Edit” option. Now, select Datasource Type. In this case “Virtual Datasource” is selected. On selecting datasource type,a list of datasources will be displayed.Also,intended datasource can be searched using “Search Datasource” in case multiple datasources are present. For further assistance,
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Visualization Framework (VF), is a framework that is used to generate different visualizations. The VF accepts JavaScripts to generate the required visualization. The Adhoc module provides some predefined visualizations and also allows users to add newer, often required visualizations to that list. However, if the user requires to use a certain visualization for an exceptional
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There are various methods of integrating Helical Insight. One of the methods is using iFrame 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 window.
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Introduction: With each and every passing data the amount of data generated in the world is increasing exponentially. The amount of data generated in 2015 is more than the previous decade. Not only we have structured data from databases, but also with coming of various social media platforms like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram etc immense
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