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Elevate Your Data Product’s Quality with Streamlined Version Control leveraging Our Git Integration

Elevate Your Data Product’s Quality with Streamlined Version Control Leveraging the Sisense Git Integration! In today's CI/CD ecosystems, efficient asset migration from development to production environments is crucial for delivering high-qualit...

BloX custom script which adjusts functionality to existing solution for date filter

You can refer to the following article: https://community.sisense.com/t5/knowledge/creating-from-to-date-using-blox/ta-p/771 which already does have a working solution on how to create a date filter with BloX widget, however 100% of customers are exp...

Reverse Proxy with Nginx + SSL configuration

Reverse Proxy with Nginx + SSL configurationNginx Reverse proxy configurationStep 1. Nginx reverse proxy server set up In this example, we are using nginx, we can install it on the same device as Sisense. To install it run1. Install nginx for Ubuntu/...

How to export snapshot file from Grafana

In case when it is not possible to share dashboard via https://snapshot.raintank.io/ (for example due to security policies) next flow could be used to export JSON of dashboard with required data included:Open required dashboard and set the time rang...

Enabling Timezone by User

Analytical Need Often times, you would have the need to support user across the globe that are digesting data from your dashboards. At these scenarios, the timestamp that was recorded and stored in the DB could be different for the users based on...

Elasticube Modeling With Data Security: Best Practices

Adding Data Security to an existing Elasticube Model can have little to great effect on the performance of the system. It is important to already have planned the Elasticube Model with the intention to apply Data Security in the future. This article...

Setting Up SSO SAML 2.0 With Keycloak

Keycloak supports applications that support SAML 2.0, such as Sisense. This page describes how to add Sisense to Keycloak and configure SSO-support with SAML 2.0 by creating a Keycloak client and connecting it to Sisense. This article assumes you hav...

REST API - Adding Data Level Security

When building code to automate the process of adding users (or groups), it may be beneficial to add security around those users. Follow the steps below to learn how to add data level security through the REST API: Step 1 From your SiSense home pag...

Reorder pivot columns by viewers

Need A common requirement for self service BI is to enable the viewers to save their own report. This can be achievable in Sisense if you are a designer of a dashboard. However, when you are a viewer, you cannot even re-order the pivot columns as...

RBAC - Example Of Using Access Roles And Department Roles

With the Role Based Access Control, Admins have more control over what their users can do and on which dashboards. With memberships to multiple roles, Admins can specify the dashboards each user can see and what kind of privileges they have on those...

Resend Invitations to Inactive Users in Bulk

Steps: 1) Download Python and install it on your PC or the Sisense machine (make sure to add python to the PATH to easily initiate installation of directories). 2) Run CMD and type the following commands to add libraries used as part of our solution...

Setting Up SSO SAML 2.0 with OneLogin

OneLogin is a single sign-on service where its users only have to enter one set of credentials to access their web apps in the cloud and behind the firewall, including Sisense. OneLogin’s policy-driven password security and multi-factor authenticatio...

Setting Up SSO SAML 2.0 with Salesforce

This page describes how to add Sisense to Salesforce and configure SSO-support with SAML 2.0. Note: This page reflects a 3rd party’s application which may change. If the steps described here do not match what you see in your Salesforce account, you c...

Setting Up SSO SAML 2.0 with Okta

Okta provides secure identity management and single sign-on to applications that you can add to your Okta account. From Okta, you and your users can log in to Okta and then access applications such as Sisense without having to log in to each applicat...

Email Troubleshooting - Sisense 7.2+

This guide will demonstrate a few official first steps for troubleshooting many of the common issues that we see with the emails portion of the Sisense Application. This guide exclusively focuses on Sisense Version 7.2+. Please follow all of the rele...

MongoDB logs take too much Drive space

Question: MongoDB logs keep growing and lead to no available space on Drive. Solution: Need to Enable Log Rotation In MongoDB. The following properties, located in "C:\Program Files\Sisense\Infra\MongoDB\mongodbconfig.conf", enable the log rotatio...

Force Start A Sisense Service From Windows PowerShell

Question: Sisense Service hangs and I try to start them in Windows Services, but the usual net stop & net start will not restart them. net stop /y will stop all dependencies. Solution: Follow the instructions below to force start a Sisense Servi...

How to install new kernel or update existing one in Ubuntu

Some OS related issues could be fixed by installing a different Linux Kernel. In this article we will review how to install a new kernel and make it bootable by default.Installing a new kernelDisplay version of currently running Kernel: uname -r Exam...

SSO Router Plugin Usage With Examples

SSO Router Plugin Usage With Examples SSO Router PlugIn Overview: The SSO Router plugin allows multiple SSO providers. The plugin works only with JWT SSO.Installation steps are described in the Single Sign-On (SSO) Router Technical details page her...

Advanced Configuration Control via API Calls

Advanced Configuration Control via API Calls Frequently, there are situations when a user is required to change some Sisense parameters when access is not available due to a wrong configuration, or it is required to automate switching of some config...

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