By default Open Source BI product Helical Insight gets installed on Apache Tomcat. In this blog, we will learn how to migrate this from Apache Tomcat to Apache web server. For Apache Web server default HTTP Port is: 80 and default HTTPS port is: 443. Similarly for Apache Tomcat default HTTP port is 8080 and
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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. Cascading Parameter is the
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FOLDER CONCEPT IN HELICAL INSIGHT AND HOW TO ACCESS PUBLIC FOLDER CONTENT. We have a different type of folders like public and private folder. Private Folder: These are the folders which we create for personal use. The files kept in this folder are like reports, dashboards, or metadata will only be available
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Users can now directly use flat files like CSV, JSON, Parquet, TSV, Avro and Sequence Files which are uploaded in AWS S3 instance and using the same they can create reports/dashboards inside Helical Insight. Following steps need to be followed. Step 1: Download, install and start Apache Drill. To learn How to Install Drill. Step
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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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By default Helical Insight is accessible using IPaddress:portnumber/applicationextension like 192.169.2.164:8085/hi-ee/. In this document, we have tried to cover one of the use cases of providing sub-domain name instead of IP address or localhost like using login.abc.com rather than the actual IPaddress. Open the file server.xml which is present at the location given below: Location:: \hi\apache-tomcat-7\conf
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There are various methods of integrating Helical Insight. One of the methods is using object tag which we would be discussing here. Following are the steps to achieve : Create a report or dashboard using Helical Insight which you want to integrate. Right click on the report or dashboard and open it in a new
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There are various methods of integrating Helical Insight. One of the methods is using embed tag which we would be discussing here. Following are the steps to achieve : Create a report or dashboard using Helical Insight which you want to integrate. Right click on the report or dashboard and open it in a new
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For the Bubble Chart, apart from the standard chart customizations, there is a script which helps the user to customize the color of the chart based on the value. Step 1: Create a report with Bubble chart visualization. Step 2: Double Click on the “Set Bubble Chart Colour” button. A popup will appear. Step 3:
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For the Circle Packing Chart, apart from the standard chart customizations, there is a script which helps the user to customize the color of the chart based on the value. Step 1: Create a report with Circle Packing chart visualization. Step 2: Double Click on the “Set Chart Colour” button. A popup will appear. Step
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