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Quickly Add Unique Identifier to Blox Action Buttons Without Modifying Blox Template

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...

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Track Dashboard Usage With Google Analytics

Plugin Overview This plugin registers every page view from your Sisense instance to your Google Analytics account. https://analytics.google.com Configuration You must specify your Google Analytics "tracking ID" by editing the main.js file.By default...

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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How To Find Your Sisense Version?

Question: How can I find the exact version and build of my Sisense environment? Solution: There are 3 easy ways to find the exact version of your environment: On the web application Open your Sisense web applicationOn the top toolbar, click on t...

Performing an OR between dashboard filters

Analytical Need A common requirement in data analysis is to be able select values from several filters and to see the results that contains all of those values and not only the results where only selected values appear. In fact, the requirement is...

DBfarm Cleaner, remove unattached cubes

When a build fails, the folder that was created up to that point with the data will still remain on your server. This can consume 100s of GB and required to clean from time to time. The attached application runs on the server cleaning all unnecessary...

Enable Sending Sisense Monitoring Logs

Sisense collects data when you or your users install or use Sisense products or services. Sisense uses the data collected for internal and support-related purposes such as improving our products and services, improving customer engagement, conducting...

Developing Custom REST Connectors

Sisense lets you import data from multiple sources using built-in connectors or by a customized connector. Sisense custom REST connectors framework enable you to program your own connectors to popular data sources which support REST services, to impo...

Host a New Webpage on IIS

It some situations, it may be useful to be able to use IIS to host website that work with Sisense. A common example would be hosting a webpage that contains the code for an embedded dashboard. Additionally, it could be useful in scenarios when you w...

Change Sisense web application to port 80

Sisense Version 7.1.3 and below:Sisense Web Application is installed by default on port 8081. When you want your users to simply enter a domain name without a specific port, this can be done by changing the default port of IIS to port 80. You can do ...

Troubleshooting Export to Excel Issues

Introduction In version 6.7, Sisense introduced support for exporting pivot table widgets to Microsoft Excel. For general information about the feature and how to use it, please review https://docs.sisense.com/win/SisenseWin/downloading-pivot-tables-...

Data Denormalization for Faster Dashboard Query Response

Introduction This post will explain how to denormalize your ElastiCube schema in order to get faster query response in SiSense Web. Purpose/Benefit Denormalization of data is used to reduce the query response time in SiSense Web. It is most useful f...

Maximize Dashboard Performance

What is good dashboard performance? Dashboard performance is the time it takes to load a Sisense dashboard. We want our users to have a good experience when working with our data. The time taken to load the dashboard is the first step. Each indi...

Duplicate Drill Hierarchies for Another ElastiCube

Introduction This article will demonstrate one way to create duplicates of your hierarchies that use a different ElastiCubes. This could be useful if you have several ElastiCubes with the same schema, and you don't want to manually re-create the hi...

Resolving the ODBC_Wrapper.dll Error When Connecting Via ODBC

Scenario: A common error when trying to connect via ODBC to a data source is: "Could not load file or assembly 'ODBC_Wrapper.dll' or one of its dependencies..." This error can occur after successfully setting up the ODBC connection in the Windows ODB...

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...

Export Tables To CSV Post Plugin

Download Zip: ExportTablesToCSVPostPlugin Files included: ectools.zipectools_sisense_ver<6.4.zip - (only for versions 6.4 and below)python-2.7.11.amd64.msiconfig_example.txtEC_export.dll This post explains how to install and configure the post plugi...

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