Customizing the Offset Size of Selected Categories in Sisense Pie Chart Widgets
In Sisense, pie chart widgets, including the various pie chart style options such as donut charts, are a common way to visualize data. By default, when a user selects a category within a pie chart, that slice "pops out" to highlight the selection. This article explains how to customize the offset size of selected categories in Sisense pie chart widgets by leveraging Highcharts settings of the widget using Sisense widget scripting capabilities.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 expertise or manual widget configuration. This Natural Language Query (NLQ) capability accelerates data exploration and insights generation without needing to manually create new Sisense widgets through the standard UI for each question or data relationship of interest. However, these automatically generated widgets differ from standard widgets in that they do not trigger typical widget scripting events, which poses a challenge for applying custom modifications. This limitation can hinder the application of standard dashboard and widget scripting customizations directly to these widgets. Fortunately, it is possible to modify NLQ-generated widgets programmatically by using JavaScript to manipulate the HTML of the fully rendered widgets without relying on Sisense-specific widget scripting events. This approach involves observing changes in the Simply Ask modal DOM and applying custom code when new widgets are rendered. This article explores how to implement such customizations, providing code examples and notes to help customize NLQ-generated Simply Ask widgets.UserReplaceTool - Automating Dashboard Ownership Transfers - Useful for Deleting User Accounts
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 dashboard ownership to prevent losing Sisense dashboards when a given user account is deleted, as deleting a Sisense user will delete all dashboards owned by that user. The UserReplaceTool addresses this task by automating the transfer of dashboard ownership of all dashboards owned by a given user, ensuring continuity and data integrity. UserReplaceTool is a Python-based, API-based Tool solution designed to seamlessly transfer the ownership of dashboards and data models from one user to another in Sisense. This tool simplifies and automates this process, allowing organizations to reassign dashboard ownership without manual processes or the risk of losing dashboards and widgets. All components are accomplished by using Sisense API endpoint requests.How to properly reboot a k8s node(s)
As part of maintaining a healthy and robust Kubernetes (K8s) cluster, occasional reboots of nodes might be necessary. Whether for system updates, hardware maintenance, or other reasons, it's essential to follow a structured process to ensure minimal disruption to running workloads. Below is a step-by-step guide on safely rebooting nodes within a Kubernetes cluster, covering both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu systems.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 equivalent dynamic ComposeSDK widget component. This approach allows the extraction of all components and parameters of a widget, enabling the creation of an equivalent dynamic ComposeSDK widget component without directly referencing or relying on a specific widget or dashboard ID. The metadata of an existing widget contains all the information needed to create a dynamic version of an existing Sisense widget. It is also possible to use an existing widget ID and dashboard ID to render an existing widget in ComposeSDK, but this does not take full advantage of the capabilities of ComposeSDK to generate new widgets directly.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 typically does not alter the Sisense Highcharts library version with every release, the versions of Highcharts included in Sisense may change when upgrading to a new major version release. Highcharts can load additional chart types and other types of functionality via JS module files that contain code-adding features such as additional chart types, which can be used within plugins along with additional code to create additional widget types. If a plugin utilizes a Highcharts module, you can source the module directly in the "plugin.json" file's source parameter, as shown in this example: "source": [ "HighchartModule.js", ], To determine the current Highcharts version being used in your Sisense version, you can use the "Highcharts" command in the web console while viewing any page on your Sisense server. After identifying the current Highcharts version, you can find the corresponding module hosted on the Highcharts code hosting website using the following URL format: https://code.highcharts.com/${Highcharts_Version}/modules/${module_name}.js For example: https://code.highcharts.com/6.0.4/modules/heatmap.js You can save this module and upload it to the plugin folder or replace the older module JS file simply by copying and pasting the code directly. Be sure to update the "plugin.json" file to point to the new module file if the file name has changed or if this is the first time the module is included. Simply sourcing the module file in the "plugin.json" file is sufficient to load the module into Highcharts; no further code is required to load the module.
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 needing technical expertise or manual widget configuration. This Natural Language Query (NLQ) capability accelerates insights generation without the need to manually create new Sisense widgets through the standard UI for each question or data relationship of interest. In a previously published article , it was discussed how to customize Simply Ask NLQ-generated widgets using scripting, providing multiple examples of basic modifications and more detail on the basic mechanics of scripting Simply Ask widgets. In this article a more complex example wil be shared to show how widgets can be customized in more complex conditional ways: programmatically adding currency symbols to specific data columns in pivot table widgets generated by Simply Ask.
