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Mastering custom actions in Sisense: debugging and understanding payload properties

Mastering custom actions in Sisense: debugging and understanding payload propertiesWhen you use a custom action from the community, develop your own, or try to understand why your action does not work as expected, sometimes you need to change the cus...

Setting Date Filter Members to Specific Days of the Week in Sisense Programmatically

Setting Date Filter Members to Specific Days of the Week in Sisense Programmatically Sisense natively supports a wide range of date filter functionalities and formats. However, certain scenarios may call for unusual custom programmatic forms of da...

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Ensuring Accurate PDF Export Headers When Programmatically Modifying Dashboard Filters in Sisense

Ensuring Accurate PDF Export Headers When Programmatically Modifying Dashboard Filters in Sisense When working with Sisense dashboards, programmatically modifying filters upon dashboard load via dashboard scripts for a specific user or circu...

Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters

Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters Sisense natively supports various types of date filter functionalities. However, there are instances where a dynamically updating date filter is desired based on dynamically ch...

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Builds fail because libraries used in Custom Code tables are not installed

Use case You have specific libraries in Notebooks that have to be installed to run Custom code tables. However, these libraries can be uninstalled automatically (during upgrade or other system changes). Solution Add the following Python code into th...

Advanced Scripting for Sisense’s Simply Ask NLQ: Adding Currency Symbols to Pivot Tables

Advanced Scripting for Sisense’s Simply Ask NLQ: Adding Currency Symbols to Pivot Tables Sisense’s Simply Ask feature empowers users to create visualizations instantly by asking natural language questions, simplifying data exploration without needi...

Modifying Simply Ask Natural Language Query Generated Widgets with Scripting

Modifying Simply Ask Natural Language Query Generated Widgets with Scripting Sisense's Simply Ask feature empowers users to create visualizations instantly by asking natural language questions, simplifying data exploration without needing technical ...

Sisense Compose SDK

Sisense Compose SDKThe Future is ComposableIn the fast-paced world of data-driven applications, developers are constantly seeking innovative ways to create customized data products that seamlessly integrate into their projects. Sisense has stepped up...

Limiting Date Range Filters in Sisense Dashboards

Limiting Date Range Filters in Sisense Dashboards Use Case Overview Wide date ranges in Sisense dashboards can lead to performance issues, especially when using live models or querying large datasets. For live data models, large queries increase cost...

Exploring the Potential of Sisense Jump to Dashboard Filter Configurations

Exploring the Potential of Sisense Jump to Dashboard Filter Configurations Introduction: Sisense Jump to Dashboard offers a powerful way to enhance the user experience and streamline data exploration with the help of different filter configurations....

UserReplaceTool - Automating Dashboard Ownership Transfers - Useful for Deleting User Accounts

Automating Dashboard Ownership Transfer in Sisense with UserReplaceTool Managing and deleting user accounts in Sisense can create manual processes when users leave an organization or change roles. A frequent issue is the reassignment of dashboar...

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Using the InternalHttp Function Within Scripts and Plugins

Using the InternalHttp Function Within Scripts and Plugins The InternalHttp function is a Sisense function within the Sisense internal Prism object. The prism object and the InternalHttp function are present on all Sisense pages and can be used in sc...

Interactive Time Period Comparison with BloX & Custom Actions

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...

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Resolving Export Limitations in Sisense

Resolving Export Limitations in Sisense This article addresses the inability to export more than 50,000 rows from a table in CSV and PDF formats in Sisense. The issue arises when the widget displays over 50,000 rows, but the export only includes 50,...

Converting an Existing Sisense Widget to a Dynamic ComposeSDK Widget Component

Converting an Existing Sisense Widget to a Dynamic ComposeSDK Widget Component Using either the widget Sisense API's, or the Sisense widget JS API object, it is possible to determine all components and parameters of a widget required to create an eq...

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Dashboard Dictionary

Use Case My users and designers were looking for an easy way to get insights into how certain dashboards and widgets were built in terms of formulas and filters. Solution For this, I have written a Python script that takes a list of dashboard IDs...

Expanding on Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters

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...

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Using the "desc" Description Parameter of a Sisense Dashboard via the REST API

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...

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Debugging Server Side External Sisense Plugins using HTTP Requests

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...

Update and add new Highcharts modules for use in Sisense plugins

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...

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Ensuring Accurate PDF Export Headers When Programmatically Modifying Dashboard Filters in Sisense

Knowledge Base Articles

Mastering custom actions in Sisense: debugging and understanding payload properties

Setting Date Filter Members to Specific Days of the Week in Sisense Programmatically

Ensuring Accurate PDF Export Headers When Programmatically Modifying Dashboard Filters in Sisense

Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters

Builds fail because libraries used in Custom Code tables are not installed

Advanced Scripting for Sisense’s Simply Ask NLQ: Adding Currency Symbols to Pivot Tables

Modifying Simply Ask Natural Language Query Generated Widgets with Scripting

Sisense Compose SDK

Limiting Date Range Filters in Sisense Dashboards

Exploring the Potential of Sisense Jump to Dashboard Filter Configurations

UserReplaceTool - Automating Dashboard Ownership Transfers - Useful for Deleting User Accounts

Using the InternalHttp Function Within Scripts and Plugins

Interactive Time Period Comparison with BloX & Custom Actions

Resolving Export Limitations in Sisense

Converting an Existing Sisense Widget to a Dynamic ComposeSDK Widget Component

Dashboard Dictionary

Expanding on Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters

Using the "desc" Description Parameter of a Sisense Dashboard via the REST API

Debugging Server Side External Sisense Plugins using HTTP Requests

Update and add new Highcharts modules for use in Sisense plugins

Ensuring Accurate PDF Export Headers When Programmatically Modifying Dashboard Filters in Sisense