In this blog we are going to cover the points related to the usage of text component. Text is the most used component in creating canned report and can be used for creating dynamic as well as non dynamic content like label, heading, titles, static text etc. A text field can be dragged from left
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Introduction: In this blog we are going to explain how to use checkbox in multi select parameters in Community Edition Reports. Here we are creating a sample report which shows travel medium wise cost. Please make sure you have gone through the blog “Introduction to Community Reporting Interface.” Steps to create pie chart using filter
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In this blog, we shall see how to create a stacked bar chart in Helical Insight. To create stacked bar charts, the first dimension (shown on the axis) will be the first column. Each data item to be shown in the stack should be shown in separate columns. Hence in certain cases you might have
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Introduction: In many cases we would like to display the filters values which have been selected at a specific place. So in this blog we would describe how that can be done. Concept: Via dashboard.getVariables(NameOfFilterVariable) we can get the values of the selected filters. Fo what we can do is we can create some HTML
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Once you have created a report using applied database function there might be a need to delete the applied DB function or change those values. In this blog, we will learn how we can go about doing the same. Below is the snapshot of the report which is created by applying Database function on one
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In this blog we shall see how Impersonate/Mimic feature works in Open Source BI product Helical Insight. The impersonate feature has been added to Helical Insight so that when an admin applies certain security conditions for a user/shares certain resources with a user, he can then see via this functionality whether the same have been
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Check the java version with the command java -version if it successfully installed then you can see the version else you will see the below image. Java –version If you get result similar to the below image you do not have Java installed. The list shows you which packages in your system have Java available
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Helical Insight is having various kind of charting options by default present. One of the most commonly used widget is a “Card” widget which can be used to show a single information like the employee name, total revenue, total sales etc. A card widget is used a lot in dashboards. For example: You can refer
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Helical Insight Adhoc reporting interface is having a feature called hidden column. A hidden column allows us to hide a column which can be part of the report selection but it will not be visible in the report as such. For example, We want to arrange according to month number but do not want to
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Introduction: In this blog we are going to explain how to implement inter panel communication between tabular report and a pie chart in the Dashboard. For using Inter-panel communication functionality, user needs to create two reports i.e. parent report and child report. Here parent report is Tabular report and Child report is Pie chart. Parent
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