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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...

Filter selections in Blox widget

Question How to show the values selected in the dashboard filter as a Blox widget? Answer 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...

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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BloX Data Input To Keep The Entered Value

Question I want to use the Date picker for filtering, however, the dates selected are not getting preserved by the date picker and might be confusing for the end users whether the date is selected or not. Answer You can use the script to keep the ...

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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Input Parameters using BloX for What-If Analysis

Input Parameters using BloX for What-If AnalysisThis is an alternative to the paid or community Input Parameter plugins.This new BloX Input Parameter custom action:supports multiple levers (input parameters) with just one Apply buttonsupports all wid...

Blox with drop-down and All values in it

Blox with drop-down and All values in it Sometimes we need to have an All values option for our dropdown menu in the BLOX. Especially if we just open the dashboard and filter set to Include all. To create it, press the pencil icon to edit the wid...

How to Create BloX Custom 'From-To' Filter -- All Dates with “Clear” Button

How to Create BloX Custom 'From-To' Filter -- All Dates with “Clear” Button We will create a Blox widget to have date filters with the 'From and To' fields and the button Clear. Actually, this button will add a whole range of dates to the filter. Cr...

Blox Date Filters with Different Granularity - Custom Action Code Snippet

Summary This article provides guidance on how to change time periods on the dashboard using Blox in Sisense. The filter example is displayed on the screenshot below. Step-by-Step Instructions Understanding the Use-Case: Users often create date ran...

How to Display Images in Sisense Blox Dashboard

How to Display Images in Sisense Blox Dashboard Summary This article guides how to display images in the Sisense Blox dashboard. It addresses common issues related to image paths and offers solutions for using both external and internal image source...

Changing Measures In The Entire Dashboard Using Blox User Interface

Objective Display several related values (KPIs/Measures) in multiple widgets in the dashboard based on the user selection, in a simple and easy way, without duplicating widgets/formulas or tables in the Elasticube. As a direct result - the queries b...

BloX Template - Search box to filter 2 dimensions

BloX Template - Search box to filter 2 dimensions This article provides a BloX template for the use case when you need a search box to be able to filter 2 dimensions at once. This solution is based on a custom action developed. See the guide for re...

BloX Template: Title & Details

Introduction: The Title & Details template contains a styled title, followed by 4 key-value sets, providing additional information. It can be used as an informative title, especially in drilling dashboards that describe individual subjects, such ...

Blox - Multi-Select Dropdown List Filter

Blox - Multi-Select Dropdown List FilterThis article will take you step by step on how to create a multi-select dropdown filter using Blox and JavaScript. ElastiCube:1. For each field you want to use in multi-select filter, you need to add a custom c...

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...

Jump To Dashboard Filter

Question How can I pass the filters from the JumpTo Dashboard in BloX? Answer You can choose the filters you would like to pass on to the Jump To by defining them in the action's panelsToInclude property: Each panel that you would like to pass o...

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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Advanced Pivot Widget Scripting - Combining Custom JAQL and the Pivot 2.0 API

Advanced Pivot Widget Scripting - Combining Custom JAQL and the Pivot 2.0 API While the Pivot Table Widget Type is a highly customizable and flexible Sisense widget for representing data in tabular form, certain use cases may be best achieved through...

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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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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

Filter selections in Blox widget

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

BloX Data Input To Keep The Entered Value

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

Using Native Javascript Date Calculations To Modify Sisense Date Filters

Input Parameters using BloX for What-If Analysis

Blox with drop-down and All values in it

How to Create BloX Custom 'From-To' Filter -- All Dates with “Clear” Button

Blox Date Filters with Different Granularity - Custom Action Code Snippet

How to Display Images in Sisense Blox Dashboard

Changing Measures In The Entire Dashboard Using Blox User Interface

BloX Template - Search box to filter 2 dimensions

BloX Template: Title & Details

Blox - Multi-Select Dropdown List Filter

Programmatically Formatting Bar Chart Widget Value Labels in Sisense

Jump To Dashboard Filter

Interactive Time Period Comparison with BloX & Custom Actions

Advanced Pivot Widget Scripting - Combining Custom JAQL and the Pivot 2.0 API

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

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