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Blox with drop-down and All values in it

Blox with drop-down and All values in it Sometimes we need to have an All values option for our dropdown menu in the BLOX. Especially if we just open the dashboard and filter set to Include all.   To create it, press the pencil icon to edit the wid...

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OleksandrB by Sisense Team Member
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How to Display Images in Sisense Blox Dashboard

How to Display Images in Sisense Blox DashboardSummaryThis article guides how to display images in the Sisense Blox dashboard. It addresses common issues related to image paths and offers solutions for using both external and internal image sources.S...

BloX Template - Search box to filter 2 dimensions

BloX Template - Search box to filter 2 dimensions  This article provides a BloX template for the use case when you need a search box to be able to filter 2 dimensions at once. This solution is based on a custom action developed. See the guide for re...

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Liliia_DevX by Sisense Team Member
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BloX Sort Values Action

Challenge:When making a BloX widget, there is no UI element that you can use to sort the widget.Solution:This custom BloX action allows you to trigger a sort for any widgets including itself.Steps To Implement:STEP 1A: CREATING THE ACTIONCreate the a...

intapiuser by Community Team Member
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BloX Template: Title & Details

Introduction: The Title & Details template contains a styled title, followed by 4 key-value sets, providing additional information.   It can be used as an informative title, especially in drilling dashboards that describe individual subjects, such ...

intapiuser by Community Team Member
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Interactive Time Period Comparison with BloX & Custom Actions

Interactive Time Period Comparison with BloX & Custom ActionsHere is a use case on how to leverage BloX widgets in Sisense to create an interactive dashboard for comparing any KPI between two different periods. This solution allows users to select tw...

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BloX Button To Add/Remove Break By

This article details the process of creating a BloX button that applies/removes Break By on one or more widgets. Step 1Create the widget(s) including the Break By field. We will need to retrieve the JAQL for the Break By field and add it later via a ...

intapiuser by Community Team Member
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Switch Multiple Rows In Pivot (As Viewer)

Part 1: Preparation And Setup Download the BloX Template HereImport the Template into BloX (tutorial here)Create an action called "Dim Swapper With Selection"Add the code below to the action and save it. if(payload.data.selectVal != 0){ //...

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BloX Template: Home Page

BloX Template: Home PageIntroductionThe Blox Home Page template allows the dashboard designers to incorporate KPIs as a card widget. Each card can be treated as a visual summary of the dashboard it is referring to.As an example, the TOTAL AMOUNT card...

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shubhamgoel by Sisense Team Member
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Migrating Blox Custom Actions

Migrating Blox Custom Actions   When relocating Sisense resources from one server to another, the Sisense Rest API is a possible method for transferring Sisense components and objects like dashboards, users, groups, and data sources. Similarly, Blo...

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BloX - Date and Timestamp Range Filter

Sisense doesn't currently support filtering on timestamps natively. This article shows how we can leverage BloX to work around this limitation and allow users to select a date and timestamp range to filter their dashboards. (This is an updated versio...

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TriAnthony by Community Team Member
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How to use JumpToDashboard in a Blox widget

How to use JumpToDashboard in a Blox widget This article explains how to use a JumpToDashboard within a Blox widget.  We’ll use a default template “Indicator Right” as an example to implement the JumpToDashboard action within the button.  First, let...

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Sync Blox Input Element with Current Filter State

Sync Blox Input Element with Current Filter State When creating a Blox widget and altering a filter within a dashboard or widget, it is sometimes advantageous to modify the default behavior, so that upon activating a Blox action, the Blox widget in...

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BloX Metadata Changer List

BloX actions allow for a user to attach a script to be executed on a click of a button. A popular use case that has gained a lot of usage recently, has been meta data changing with BloX actions. These actions change an existing widget’s panel items, ...

intapiuser by Community Team Member
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Dynamic Timeframe in Sisense BloX

Dynamic Timeframe in Sisense BloX Analytical Need Understanding the timeframe scope of the data is crucial for contextualizing the dashboard, or report, accurately. Sisense generally accomplishes this by reflecting the timeframe scope within the fil...

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Sisense BloX Custom Actions Guide

Sisense BloX 2.0 has introduced custom actions. These answer any need for interactivity that is not met by the 5 native action types.Once an action is created, its snippet is added to the “My Actions” section of the actions tab, and it can be called,...

intapiuser by Community Team Member
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Relative Date Filter in Blox

Part 1: Preparation And Setup Download the BloX Template HereImport the Template into BloX (tutorial here)Create an action called "RelativeDate"Add the code below to the action and save it. if (payload.text == "Year" ) { prism.activeDashbo...

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