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...
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...
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...
Animating Sisense Title Elements and Widgets Using CSS Animations Animating Sisense widget elements and dashboard/widget titles is a possible way to enhance the visual appeal and user experience of a Sisense dashboard or highlight a particul...
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...
BloX Write Back Form to a Source Database Sisense BloX Database Writeback This guide demonstrates setting up a simple BloX widget to enable front-end users to write data back to the database. While this guide specifically uses AWS lambda to execute ...
Adding Custom Fonts to BloX Widgets Introduction BloX can import custom fonts to allow more design customization of the widget. A single or multiple custom fonts can be used in a widget. This article explains the steps to add custom fonts to a B...
“Production line” Status Indicators - Dynamic BloX Widget Introduction This article explains how to set up and use an example Blox widget that creates a dynamic visual representation of a "production line". This widget was developed for a manuf...
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...
This article explains how you can embed images from an external drive (Google Drive) to the Sisense widget. Note: The solution is implemented with the help of the Blox plugin and on the L2023.3 Sisense version. In order to embed an image into the Blo...
How to troubleshoot the "Widget Type: Blox is Not Registered" Error and Similar IssuesWhen you see an error on a widget level saying that a specific widget type is not registered (as on the screenshots below (for example, Blox or Table with Aggregat...
Introduction: The Jumbotron template mimics Bootstrap's Jumbotron element and suggests an elegant and actionable header. Installation Instructions: 1. Download the attached template 2. Extract the json file into your BloX template directory: C:\...
The Gradient color in bar/column/line/area chart script contains a styled title bar of 3 KPI with a gradient background. Installation Instructions: 1. Download the attached template 2. Extract the json file into your BloX template directory: C:\Pro...
Question How can I trigger a popup every time I open a dashboard using BloX or JS, as shown in the picture? Answer You already have the code for the popup itself then you can easily wrap it as a plugin and use the "dashboardLoaded" event to tr...
Question When using the Indicator Sparkling template, once I add an Item (dimension) for the sparkline, the carousel navigator arrows appear. Since they are not needed, I would like to hide them. Is there a way to do that? Answer You can use the ...
Question Is there a way to set the default panel of the BLOX widget to the month that is currently set in the FilterDash month? That was when a user loads the page, they don't get confused by the mixed messages of BloX vs rest of widgets? Answer Y...
Question I am trying to make it a widget button and switch the dashboard once it was clicked. Is there a way to achieve it? Answer You can use this script. It uses the standard BloX OpenURL action and will build and style a web page opening button...
Question Would it be possible to add a scroll to a widget location action? So I have a top panel that has an action of: "navigate to Actions widget"? Answer You'll need to create a custom action and include something like: var elmnt = document.ge...
Question When applying the script in BloX - the change is not applied in PDF. The example of the script: This looks fine in the BloX editor, Dashboard, and PDF preview: But the script is not applied to the exported PDF: Answer Replacing the...
