Helical Insight is an Open Source Reporting Framework which is used for creating reports and dashboards from a variety of data sources. You can be using relational databases, NoSQL databases, columnar databases, flat files etc; you can connect to your database in 4 easy steps and start creating analytics. Helical Insight is one of the
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NOTE: This blog is relevant to version 3.0, 3.1, 4.0 and 4.1 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. By default there is a page which appears when a user login as administrator or
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Users can connect to Elastic Search via Dremio. The following steps need to be followed: Step 1: Install and start Dremio. To learn how to install Dremio, click here. Step 2: Open Dremio console in the browser by entering your-host-ip:port in the address bar. Here, Dremio is on the localhost. Default port for Dremio is
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This blog will let you know to export excel using apache poi hwf and customize the excel like adding more information like the filters used in the report, heading. We should create an object in HTML file which contains the map-id from an efwd file, all the required input parameters for executing the query and
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In order to remove default admin and default user buttons from login page of Helical Insight application, we need to follow below steps: Go to the location where Helical Insight application is installed. Now search for ‘loginBody.jsp’ file which is located at “webapps/hi-ee/WEB-INF/jsp/login/loginBody.jsp” directory Open ‘loginBody.jsp’ Comment the following section of code as shown below.
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Prerequisite : IIS server version 6+ is installed and running. Make sure “ISAPI Extensions”, “ISAPI Filters” and ”CGI” are checked. To verify go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn on Windows Features. Check “Internet Information Services” inside that you will find all these 3 modules. Apache Tomcat 9+ is installed. Testing Environment
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NOTE: This blog is relevant to version 3.0, 3.1, 4.0 and 4.1 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. This article briefs you about how you can completely white label and change the look and feel
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Objective of this blog is to discuss how we can add the scrolling text from right to left anywhere in the ad-hoc report or dashboard in Helical insight as shown below. How to Add Scrolling Text in Dashboard in Helical Insight Application...! The detailed description to achieve the above discussed objective is documented follows: STEPS:
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From version 5.0 of Helical Insight Enterprise Edition, the entire method of implementing cascading input parameters has been simplified and it can be acheived from the UI itself. Please refer to this blog to learn how to do that. If you are using an older version you can go read further. Introduction: Cascading Parameter are
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Helical Insight application is having validations on each and every page and actions. This blog elaborates how you can disable those validations, change the messages etc related to validations. The validation logic which is needed to validate different inputs and modules in Helical Insight can be configured in Validation.xml file.
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