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How to add date parameters to the Dashboard query You have a dashboard query for which you want your users to enter a date (From and To) and the user should be able to query for records that fall between …

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Once you purchase a license of InfoCaptor, Please send us the following information. Go to Help Menu -> Register Copy the highlighted User key text (sample user key shown in yellow below) Please email the above user key so that …

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How hard is to create a decent interactive Dashboard? To illustrate my point, here is an example tutorial, [just glance through the document from top to bottom and come back to continue this dialog] tutorial from Microsoft website The tutorial …

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Lets follow some comparison and arguments to determine if InfoCaptor is really an Anti Dashboarding tool. For this comparision we will refer to the Dashboards from the big vendors as big-guy-dashboards. Big-guy-dashboards are huge in all respect- InfoCaptor is agile …

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In the previous article we saw how to Enable Automatic Dashboard Refresh Now we add a very powerful Dashboard feature: Drills Create Drills - Drill from one portlet to another We will create a drill from the "By Region" portlet …

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In the previous article we added a parameter (Create dashboard Parameter) and now we go on to enable Auto-Refresh. Dynamic Refresh of Dashboard when changing Parameter First take a note of the internal identifiers for each of the Graph portlet …

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In the previous articles we added a Pie chart (Create Pie chart from Excel Data) and a Bar Chart (Create Bar chart from Excel Data). Now we add parameters to the dashboard Add Dashboard Parameters or List of drop down …

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In the previous article we added a pie chart (Create Pie chart from Excel Data) and now we continue adding a Bar chart Now we add a Bar chart to our Excel Dashboard Top Countries select country_name, sum(quantity_sold) as qty_sold …

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In the previous article (Create summary view portlets from Excel Data) we saw how to add a tabular portlet to the dashboard. Now we continue adding a Pie chart Create Pie Chart (Glet) We will convert each of the above …

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In the previous article  (Create your first excel based dashboard) we created our first dashboard and now we continue adding more content to it. Create Summary Portlets Using the same data, we can create any slice of data by grouping …

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