Question: LAG & LEAD Functions are functions that give access to multiple rows within a table, without the need for a self-join. The LAG function is used to access data from a previous row, while the LEAD function is used to return data from rows fur...
ObjectiveWhen using actions in BloX, it is possible to use user input values in actions' payloads.Unfortunately, the slider element is not considered an input field, and its values cannot be used in actions payloads.In this post, I will provide a met...
Question: For a specific industry, like Education, even though the number of days is roughly the same every year, each academic year can start and end on different dates. The usual way of calculating YTD wouldn't work for this requirements because sc...
Question: How to show the values selected in the dashboard filter as a Blox widget?Solution:Our example uses a filter / field called "Fake Names" First, in your BloX widget's Editor tab: 1. Set "showCarousel" to "true", but add the following option t...
Question: We have multiple clients and to maintain this we modeled the dim_client table and we implemented the data security rules on this table.We have 2 fact tables (fact_sales and fact_budget) to have the sales information and sales target informa...
Question: A data source in your ElastiCube contains a field with multiple values in it delimited by a particular character (i.e - comma, semicolon, space, etc.). You need to parse that field and create a table with a record for every value in the del...
Question: When using "Accumulate By" builds (see below), Sisense will only import "new" records based on a selected INT or DATETIME index field - if values in the source DB exceed the maximum value of that index as of the previous ElastiCube build, t...
Question: How to do a lookup using two conditions (i.e., pulling project number on a unique equipment for a specific day)?Solution: You can only use one field as the key field in Lookup function. So, it is better to create a combined key (using conca...
Part 1: Preparation And Setup Download the BloX Template Here Import the Template into BloX (tutorial here) Create an action called "RelativeDate" Add the code below to the action and save it.if (payload.text == "Year" ) { prism.activeDashboard.filte...
Question: How can I create a Charting Gauge in BloxSolution: You will need 5 items; A field for indicating the pointer-value. In the example the number in the middle and the yellow marker Gauge minimum Gauge maximum One and Two indicate the chart int...
Challenge:When making a BloX widget, there is no UI element that you can use to sort the widget.Solution:This custom BloX action allows you to trigger a sort for any widgets including itself.Steps To Implement:STEP 1A: CREATING THE ACTIONCreate the a...
This article covers the steps to change the date granularity of a widget using BloX actions along with the dropdown input of BloX. In this post, we shall achieve the functionality with the help of single-select BloX buttons that has some color animat...
Question: Sisense Service hangs and I try to start them in Windows Services, but the usual net stop & net start will not restart them. net stop /y will stop all dependencies.Solution: Follow the instructions below to force start a Sisense Service: Lo...
Add the following css to the style tag of the main blox property.Modify the widgetid value to match your blox widget ID. The ID is the text after /widgets/ in the URL bar.Modify the color to be whatever color you'd like to alternate between.widget[wi...
Today we will create a quiz widget in Blox that will looks something like this:This is a blox exercise to show a simple use case for custom actions.The first step is creating a data source file.You can create some csv with have some questions answers...
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