The charting engine which we are by default providing with Helical Insight Community Edition is D3 and C3 charts. Being a BI framework we allow you the flexibility to add any sort of javascripting charting engine. In this article we will cover how you can customize the look and feel of these default charts to
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In this article we will learn how to create a dashboard with multiple reports in it. For creating a single report, we create a <div> with a unique id and leave it empty for the chart to be rendered in it. On running the report, chart will be rendered in the created <div>. Define the
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Earlier we have added an input control or filter to the report created using Helical Insight CE. In this article we will be changing the type of input control. There could be various kind of input controls like single select, multiple select, searchable single select, searchable multiple select, date picker, date range etc. See the
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Now that we have learnt how to create a simple report using Helical Insight Community Edition (CE), next step is to add input parameters ,filters to the dashboard and a button on whose click the chart will trigger. Before going in detail on what changes/addition is to be made to the files. Let’s look
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In this article we will cover how to create a report using Helical Insight Community (free) Edition. User will be using a reference folder called Template Folder from the Helical website.(Download Template folder here) This folder contains all the files to make a report with the configurations already defined. What we will do is, after
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In the previous article we had learnt how to create a tabular report. Now in this article , we will be learning how to change the visualization of report from tabular to any other type like bar, pie etc . We will use the .EFWVF files present in the Template folder . A '.EFWVF' file
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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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In this blog we will cover how to connect Open Source BI product Helical Insight application with Hive database. Click on “Data Sources” page. The list of Data sources is present as a collection of icons for each database. Click on “Hive”. Now in the “Create” tab, enter the following details: Host: Enter the server
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Following are the steps to configure Hive Datasource into Helical Insight Application : Go to Tomcat Library folder Path: “ C:\Helical Insight\apache-tomcat-7\webapps\hi\WEB-INF\lib “ Note : Path address will depend on where the Helical Insight application is installed. Here, Helical Insight Application is installed in windows C drive. Extract the jar files provided into lib folder.
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