How to edit connection on existing dashboard or visualization

Scenario: You have built a dashboard on a development database connection and you need to migrate to a production server using production database. How do you change the connection on the dashboard charts and visualization? There are two ways to change/update connection settings. Method 1 1. Let say you created a connection handle mydb_dev and … Read more

How to delete or disable JDBC or database connection

Here are the steps to disable or remove any connection handle From the launch pad, click on Manage project/Users Switch to the “Database” Tab Select the connection handle by clicking on it Next, click on the pencil icon to edit the row Change the status from “Active” to “Disable” This will remove the connection handle … Read more

How to use SQL to build Dashboard

From SQL Query to Analysis InfoCaptor is extremely versatile dashboard application. It started initially just as “SQL Dashboard“. What do you mean by “SQL Dashboard”? This was the MVP (minimal viable product) for a Dashboard tool. The basic premise of the idea was that a developer can type any SQL query and produce the information. … Read more

A Lazy person’s bare minimum website traffic dashboard

Journey Begins Once you start your own business or startup, the very first thing that comes to mind is “How many visitors did my website receive?” Google Analytics provides tons of metrics and it becomes quite a chore to keep up with all the dashboard pages and filter options. As a small biz owner myself, … Read more

How to draw a Sankey diagram

What is a sankey diagram? Sankey Diagram is kind of a flow chart that has multi-purpose use. It can be applied in lot of different domains. Even though they are popular to visualize manufacturing flow or energy flow diagrams, there are other domains like HR, Finance, Web analytics etc where you can find the benefit … Read more

How to standardize the look and feel of dashboards using CSS templates

Within InfoCaptor Dashboard software, every component is allowed to look different by providing different color schemes for background, border, text and the actual graphics. This gives lot of freedom for a creative designer. For average business users , we don’t need this much creative freedom, a standardized dashboard theme that looks aesthetically beautiful is more … Read more

Create engaging visualization with brand new Sankey generator

Introducing brand new Sankey Visualizaton With the latest release of InfoCaptor, you can build Sankey Diagrams by just drag and drop operations. Sankey Visuals are one of the most powerful visualizations. It illustrates flows of any kind, where the width of each flow is based on its quantity. It gives complete bird’s eye view of … Read more