Bug: Co-ownership via AD group fails
Details below. I'd like to know: (a) Can we get a fix in a future version of Sisense? (b) Do other users and Sisense tech get the same issue? (c) Any advice other than my workaround? Try the following: 1. Co-Authoring enabled. Sisense version L2025.2.0.510 2. UserU1 from Active Directory (via LDAP). Within Active Directory, UserU1 is a member of GroupG1. Within Sisense, UserU1 has the Admin role (I haven't checked if role matters). 3. UserU1 creates DashboardD1. 4. UserU1 makes the Sisense Sysadmin and GroupG1 co-owners of DashboardD1, and removes themselves from the list of shares. Expected behaviour: This should result in UserU1 still having co-owner access to DashboardD1 because they are a member of GroupG1. Actual behaviour (bug): UserU1 does not see the Private/Shared toggle button. UserU1 does not see the Share/Republish button. UserU1 can edit widgets on the dashboard (as expected). When another user edits and republishes the dashboard, it overwrites UserU1's changes. (Also, a colleague reported a scenario where maybe UserU1's dashboard failed to get the updates when the dashboard was republished except when they manually clicked restore dashboard; if so, that's probably related to this.) So, when you have co-owner access to a dashboard via an AD group, that seems to behave more like "Designer" access, or like you have only the "Private" version of the dashboard and can't toggle to the "Shared" version. Using non-AD group: I tried the same except that I created GroupG1 in Sisense instead of via AD. Co-ownership worked. Workaround: Do not grant co-ownership to AD groups. Either use Sisense groups or grant co-ownership directly to users.
Different database connections on staging server vs production server
Hi, We have two cloud servers in Sisense: one for development (staging) and one for production. The staging server connects to our staging database. The production server connects to our production database. All cubes and dashboards are identical except for database connection strings and names. Our Git branching strategy follows these steps: Create a feature branch from staging. Make changes and push them to the feature branch. Open a pull request from the feature branch to staging. Test changes in staging. If approved, merge staging into master (production) to deploy changes. The Issue Git integration tracks database connection names, meaning both servers must either run on staging data or production data—this is not feasible for us. Proposed Solution We suggest implementing a decentralized environmental variable for storing database connections. For example: Use {database-server-name} as a placeholder in configurations. Set database-server-name = db_server_staging on staging. Set database-server-name = db_server_production on production. This would allow the same codebase to dynamically connect to the appropriate database without manual adjustments. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
Request for API to Programmatically Retrieve Widget-Level Error Responses in Sisense Dashboards
We are currently conducting automated tests on Sisense dashboards to ensure data reliability and visualization integrity. To detect failures, we’ve been using HTML tags to inspect widget responses. However, this approach has limitations especially with indicator widgets that use the <canvas> tag, which restricts DOM-level access and makes it difficult to capture error states. We’ve also explored using the POST /datasources/{cubeName}/jaql API to fetch data, but the payload is large and complex, making it challenging to parse programmatically for error detection. Given these constraints, we’re looking for an API or method that allows us to programmatically retrieve widget-level error responses or statuses from the dashboard. This would significantly improve the reliability and coverage of our automated testing framework Feature Request: Introduce an API or system-level mechanism to: Detect and retrieve widget-level error states Identify query execution failures tied to specific widgets Support automated testing and validation workflows
Ability to add many items to add to widget at once
When adding a new piece of data to a widget, instead of having to add one at a time, add a checkbox to each item to the left of each item in the list. The user can check the box for each item they want to add to the widget, instead of having to add one at a time. This will speed up adding many items to a widget.GIT Integration - Preserve Folders between environments
We use GIT Integration to promote our projects from our DEV environment to PROD. When we execute a Pull request in PROD, all the dashboards of the project are imported into the "ROOT" folder of PROD. Would it be possible to preserve the Folder structure of the dashboards as they were placed in the DEV environmentEnable end-to-end tracing visibility for Sisense services to complement existing metric monitoring.
Description: We are looking to send Sisense application traces to SignalFx (Splunk Observability Cloud) and would like guidance on leveraging the OpenTelemetry framework to achieve this integration. Currently, OpenTelemetry is not configured in our environment. We would like to understand: Whether Sisense supports OpenTelemetry out of the box for traces, The required steps to enable and configure OpenTelemetry in a Sisense deployment (Linux EC2, single-node, Kubernetes-based), How to route traces from Sisense to SignalFx, including configuration files, environment variables, and any required Sisense plugins or modules, Any limitations or known issues with trace capture for Sisense microservices, Example configuration snippets or reference documentation for this setup.Grafana Monitoring via Mobile App
As an administrator for Linux Sisense Fusion, Grafana is essential by allowing to monitor the environment's performance. Grafana has a mobile app, yet there is no way to integrate Sisense's Grafana to it after confirming with Sisense's support. It would be nice if there is such an integration that will enable us to monitor the performance via a mobile app.
WAT and ACL Security Model - Default to no access
We have found that if an ACL in a WAT does not match the Elasticube table/column security field, it defaults to providing 'all data'. To avoid a potential human error where a table/column has been renamed, we would like the default position to be 'nothing'.
Overwrite filters in report manager
Currently , If we have to create a schedule using report manager, we need to save a copy of the dashboard with the filters applied and then schedule that particular saved copy. Thus, if for a single report i want to create multiple schedules, i have to create a separate dashboard copy and point the schedule to that copy. It will be much better if we can create the schedule directly on the dashboard and add filters specific to that schedule. The only option i see is to overwrite the dashboard filters using the 'Apply custom filters' option. However, this brings up a JAQL script which the end user may not be familiar with. Thus, to enhance report manager, it will be better to add the below options: 1) Allow user to create a schedule in report manager from the dashboards page, instead of going to the report manager plugin. 2)Add some form of UI when adding custom filters instead of displaying JAQL code, so end user would be able to easily overwrite the filters in the same dashboard by creating multiple schedules instead of multiple dashboards. Note: It is possible through a third party plugin, but would be better to incorporate this in the existing report manager plugin.SQL Snippets Functionality in Sisense Fusion
I have previously worked with Periscope and found the SQL Snippets tool to be very helpful (https://dtdocs.sisense.com/article/snippets#:~:text=To%20create%20a%20SQL%20snippet,button%20and%20name%20the%20snippet.&text=Snippets%20with%20these%20characters%20included,the%20box%20and%20click%20save.) Now my team use Sisense Fusion and we still have a need for this tool, despite it not being a feature in Fusion. We hope to have it available in the future.
