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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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Programmatically Formatting Bar Chart Widget Value Labels in Sisense

Programmatically Formatting Bar Chart Widget Value Labels in SisenseThis article outlines ways to programmatically format Sisense Bar Chart Widget Value labels via widget scripts, covering methods to prevent label overlap and apply consistent styling...

Troubleshooting "BBP Error 1551" in Sisense ElastiCube Builds

Troubleshooting "BBP Error 1551" in Sisense ElastiCube Builds Summary This article provides a comprehensive guide to troubleshooting the "BBP error 1551" that occurs during the build process of ElastiCubes in the Sisense Windows environment. The err...

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....

Resolving Quest Service Fluctuations in Sisense on Windows

Resolving Quest Service Fluctuations in Sisense Summary This article could help you fix the Quest service issue in Sisense fluctuating between active (green) and inactive (red) states under the https://yourhost/app/test page. Step-by-Step Instructi...

Export a table from the elasticube to a CSV

* Disclaimer: This works for Windows only. It will work in future with Linux versions as well. Once it does, I will update the post. Sometimes, we need to export a table from the Elasticube to a CSV file. We can then import it to the next build, to s...

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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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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How to Install Sisense Add-ons

How to Install Sisense Add-ons This article provides instructions on how to install plugins if you have access to the server where Sisense is installed. Before installing any add-on, please review the README.md file, plugin manual, or guide on the ma...

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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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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Sync Blox Input Element with Current Filter State

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 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...

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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Planning, Executing, and Monitoring your Dashboard

Introduction The following article discusses a dashboard's (high-level) development cycle. It breaks the process into easy measurable steps that start from the initial KPI planning all the way to maintaining and adjusting your end product. Table of C...

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...

Bookmarks

Download: Latest version (Sisense v7.0+), legacy version (Sisense v6) Introduction This article explains how to create filter bookmarks using Sisense. Purpose/Benefits It is easy for dashboard users to add/update filters on a given dashboard, but an...

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

Knowledge Base Articles

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

Programmatically Formatting Bar Chart Widget Value Labels in Sisense

Troubleshooting "BBP Error 1551" in Sisense ElastiCube Builds

Exploring the Potential of Sisense Jump to Dashboard Filter Configurations

Resolving Quest Service Fluctuations in Sisense on Windows

Export a table from the elasticube to a CSV

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

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

How to Install Sisense Add-ons

Migrating Blox Custom Actions

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

Sync Blox Input Element with Current Filter State

Animating Sisense Title Elements and Widgets Using CSS Animations

Debugging Server Side External Sisense Plugins using HTTP Requests

Update and add new Highcharts modules for use in Sisense plugins

Planning, Executing, and Monitoring your Dashboard

How To Find Your Sisense Version?

Bookmarks

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