In this blog we are going to cover how to connect CSV files in Helical Insight 5.1 via apache drill It will also support flat files like excel ,json , parquet files etc ( process will be same as CSV) Follow below steps : 1. Download, install and start Apache Drill. To learn how to
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In this article we will see how we can create a dynamic parameter for canned reports.This document has been created for Helical Insight version 4.1 GA. A parameter is a variable that takes the value passed by the user and hence the data gets filtered before it is displayed on your screen. A parameter can
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This article shows various types of settings for listeners of parameters added in the canned report. This blog has been created for Helical Insight version 4.1 GA canned reporting module. Briefly, the steps involved in creating a canned report are: Create a connection Write a query without where clause Add input parameter and give its
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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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We had a major release of our version 5.0(Version 5.0 build 960) few months back wherein we had made a lot of changes and focused a lot on improving the entire UI UX as well as there were a lot of changes were made on the backend frontend. We have been working hard on latest
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In this blog we will learn how to use ‘Table’ property to give users the ability to set the number of records per page. Note :This property is applicable for Table only. 1. Open the Reports Module/Tab in Helical Insight and connect with already created Metadata(from SampleTravelData database). 2. Add travel_id column to column shelves
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From version 5.0 onwards of helical insight we are by default supporting Trino. However if you are using an older version of Helical Insight this document can help you understand how to connect and use. 1. Download the Trino.zip and extract 2. Copy trino.xml and trino.js file into below server path ....\hi\hi-repository\System\Admin\SqlFunctions 3. Open sqlDialects.properties
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In many cases when using Open Source BI product Helical Insight in an embedded mode, then we want to dynamically display the list of resources (like reports, dashboards etc) as a list/icons/tiles etc and further clicking on that the report dashboard gets listed. In the below blog, using HTML CSS, we have shown how to
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We are pleased to inform that from the version 5.0 Built 1012 of Helical Insight Enterprise Edition, we are by default providing support of docker also with a lot of configurable options. In this blog we are documenting the steps required of how to deploy and use docker. This document covers all information related how
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