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...
Advanced Pivot Widget Scripting - Combining Custom JAQL and the Pivot 2.0 API While the Pivot Table Widget Type is a highly customizable and flexible Sisense widget for representing data in tabular form, certain use cases may be best achieved through...
Quickly Add Unique Identifier to Blox Action Buttons Without Modifying Blox Template A customer recently had the unusual request for a method to select and distinguish, via a CSS selector used within a custom Javascript action, for specific Blox but...
Plugin - Custom Coloring of Bar and Column chart-type widgets This plugin modifies the color scheme of bar and column chart-type widgets to match the current color palette of the dashboard. Installation To install this plugin, download and unz...
Plugin - Disable Link To Sisense Server Homepage In Top Left Logo Icon This plugin disables the link to the home page of the top left logo in the Sisense UI. The plugin also removes the logo icon being treated as a link on mouse hover. This logo im...
Expanding on Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters Sisense offers native support for various types of date filter functionalities and also allows users to create and modify dynamic filters entirely using dashboard...
Using the Color Palette Parameter of Sisense Dashboards in Scripts and Plugins Like many other dashboard parameters, the color palette of a Sisense dashboard can be accessed and modified in scripts and plugins for customization and addi...
How to Install Sisense Add-ons This article provides instructions on how to install plugins if you have access to the server where Sisense is installed. Before installing any add-on, please review the README.md file, plugin manual, or guide on the ma...
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...
Plugin - Hide Widget Type in Chart Type Dropdown From User Groups This plugin hides widget types from the widget selection dropdown menu, for user groups set in the config of the plugin. The widget types hidden are set in the config. Widgets o...
Using the "desc" Description Parameter of a Sisense Dashboard via the REST API and the Dashboard Javascript Object The description parameter ("desc") of the Sisense dashboard object is notable for its somewhat unique characteristic – it's not access...
Plugin - Customize Dashboard Loading Screen This plugin enables changing or hiding the new Sisense dashboard loading screen introduced in L2023.6.InstallationTo install this plugin, download and unzip the attachment. Then drop the dashboardLoadingScr...
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...
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...
Debugging Server Side External Sisense Plugins using HTTP Requests Sisense external plugins are server-side Sisense plugins that run on the Sisense server itself, rather than in the client-side browser like standard non-external Sisense plugins. Th...
How to configure more than one JTD (JumpToDashboard) prefix in your appObjectiveThis guide provides a solution to the use case when you need to have 2-different prefixes for JumpToDashboard plugin. This solution could be useful if you want to display...
Histogram Widget - Interactive Script Analytical Need The Histogram widget is great for showing the distribution of a metric across different intervals. However, this widget is not interactive, which makes it difficult for the viewer to drill into p...
Update and add new Highcharts modules for use in Sisense plugins The JavaScript library framework Highcharts is natively included in Sisense and is utilized in many native Sisense widgets as well as in numerous Sisense plugins. Although Sisense typic...
Funnel chart migration from Funnel Add-on to out-of-the-box widget Previously, we had the Funnel widget as a separate solution, which became a part of the product and is no longer supported as a plugin. (https://www.sisense.com/marketplace/funnel-wi...
Jasper Report when adding a template when installing on multi-node Introduction When using Reports Manager you have the option to configure and use Report Manager to use Jasper Reports. For that, you need to configure a dashboard with Jasper Templat...
