In this blog we will learn about category More Charts visualisations pane and its customisations. More charts aFor Progress chart, we need a measure in rows or columns. It will generate chart with 100 percentage.lso give you charting options like Grid Chart but like a normal chart, not in the form of a grid kind
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There are times where we need to change how the dates and numbers appears on the report. Should it be having a thousand separator, round of to 2 decimal places if this number means an accounting unit, if the number is an ID then it should not have any decimal place or separator. If the
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Introduction: – Most of the users are using dashboards. If we want to give an option to an end user so that they can export the data (in CSV) form of individual reports at the dashboard level. Right now, the CSV export at dashboard level is taking a snapshot and exporting it. This is especially
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In our last post we discussed the need of BI tools. Click here to read about it. In this post let us explore the features that we should consider while purchasing a BI product. We shall further explore what makes each BI product stand out. Before opening the pandora’s box with the tools which are
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Here we will cover the steps about how to migrate your Helical Insight application from an Older version to Helical Insight EE version 4.1.1.18666GA. (released on 24 Aug 2021). With this specific version we have migrated globalConnection.xml to database resulting in better performance and concurrency, pagination at the metadata level and fixing of some other
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In this blog we will cover how to use helical insight with ADFS SSO option. Prerequisite: HI-EE 4.1.18666 or higher must be installed ADFS should be running Steps 1. Save your federationmetadata.xml file on the below path “..hi\apache-tomcat-9\hi-ee\WEB-INF\classes\” It can be downloaded from online based on your ADFS domain https://< your hostname >/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml 2. Generate
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With version 4.1 GA of Helical Insight we are also supporting JWT as well. JWT offers a lot of advantages like enhanced security, sessionless mode support when implementing load balancing server at Helical Insight, another method of SSO implementation and more. In a stateful architecture, when the load or session is shifted to another server,
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Enh : Enhancement Req : Requirement (new feature) HELICAL INSIGHT 4.1.1.18666 GA release: Login: #Enh: Maintain stateless session using JWT Datasource: #Req: Migration of globalConnection.xml from file based to DB #Req: Supporting datasource conncurrency [tested with 1500 connections] #Req: Improved datasource performance [tested with 1500 connections] Metadata: #Req: Implemented pagination in metadata module resulting in
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In the below blog we will cover the steps to migrate your Helical Insight application from older version to version 4.1 GA. Before starting the migration, please take the backup of following files/folders. Helical Insight Repository (which contains all reports, dashboard, metadata and other work related files). Take the backup of entire Helical Insight repository
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In canned reports module, there is the option of using calculated fields. The calculations options are available on right click on any component (text or numeric field) on the canvas. In order to apply the calculation on a field, right click on the field, hover to Calculation option and select the calculation you want to
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