Question: I'm attempting to select the First Time (day) each product in a list was ordered. Example:Product A | 10/10/2018Product A | 10/30/2018Product B | 09/01/2016Product B | 10/10/2018Result: Product A | 10/10/2018Product B | 09/01/2016 Answer...
Question: I have a list of items that have multiple date-oriented entries. I have a numerical field that indicates days since last scan, so I can filter based on the lowest number of days per item. What I am trying to do is count the number of items...
Question: I have created a custom starred filter, however, when i go to a different account that is not the admin, this does not appear on the date filter. Answer: Designers should be able to view starred filters when dashboards are republished, b...
Question: I'm looking for a way to count number of records below and above median/AVG. Answer: Step 1: Add all category columns (Country, City, ID) to the Rows panel.Step 2: Add a column under the Value panel that calculates the total amount. The ...
Question: When 2 people can design 1 widget and work on it one by one, system doesn't sync the changes. Answer: Whenever a dashboard is created in Sisense, the user who created it is it's owner. Only one user can be the owner of a particular dashb...
Question: I have a dashboard that is referred to via a static Web page. I've developed a replacement dashboard but I want it to have the same exact object id number as its predecessor. So, I want to overwrite a dashboard ID with a completely differe...
Question: I am looking for a solution to filter my data based on time period. I currently have data going back to 2016, but I want to filter it to show only entries for 04/2019 until today. Answer: You can do this with a custom-filter. Add your d...
Question: Is there any kind of way that allows me to filter a field based on "contains word" criteria. Answer: You can set such a thing as a filter on a dashboard, widget, or formula on any dashboard JAQL syntax { "contains": "mm" } You can also ...
Question: Currently, when creating a formula at the widget level, you can filter the formula but by a text field only. How can I filter the formula by the numeric field? For example, this is helpful when creating a percent of total calculation -- I...
Question: I have an example of data below. I want to be able to get a count of the Unique Member ID's that have more than 1 different confirmation number tied to it. So in the simple example below that number would be 1. Member 55555 has 3 entries, ...
Question: How can I use the date in the Pivot values? Answer: You can follow these steps: 1. Convert the date into an Integer with this chunk of SQL: GETYEAR([Date])*10000 +GETMONTH([Date])*100 +GETDAY([Date]) 2. After you have an Integer repre...
Analytical Need In certain scenarios, one would like to show an indicator that presents the ranking of a current selection(filter) out of all the items in the pool. This allows the viewer to quickly understand how well a particular selection is per...
Analytical Need Often times, we are required to present all the existing records in our dimension whether we have or don't have records to aggregate for it from our fact table or simply, perform a left join on-demand instead of the by-product inner...
Analytical Need Send Pulse notification only by the end of the month to track monthly performance.Cube is being built daily. Modeling Challenge Sisense will trigger Pulse alert after every cube build if the condition is met. If the cube is being b...
Description Creating a sorted label for the week days or months (names) in a widget is not a simple task. The base sorting is based on alphabetical order and not on the logical order of days or months. For example (Issue) : Friday Monday Saturday S...
Analytical Need Calculate the pivot grand total at the row level to do calculations such as % of the grand total. You may have tried the following and not received the desired results: ALL function This will ignore your row groupings, which is what...
Month to Date (MTD) and Year to Date (YTD) calculations provide us results of activity in the time between the beginning of a date (can be a month or year in our example) and the beginning of the current month or year. This in turn allows data analy...
Sometimes we'd like to see all our data up to today, not including. It is very easy to achieve this within the Elasticube by creating a custom column which calculates the daydiff between the date to today i.e. daydiff(now(),[date_field]) and then fi...
This article will show how to set conditional formatting on a specific value based on another one that doesn’t directly relate to it. For example, when one wants to show a total of revenue in a specific region and set its color to green in case the ...
