Create Dynamic Organizational Charts with Jedox

Create Dynamic Organizational Charts with Jedox

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
Organizational charts are essential tools for visualizing the structure of teams and organizations. They help to showcase relationships between different roles or departments, making it easier to understand the chain of command or responsibilities. Using Jedox, you can create a dynamic and interactive organizational chart that automatically updates with changes from your spreadsheet data. Why Use an Organizational Chart? Organizational charts can be used for: Visualizing Team Structures: Understand how teams and departments are organized. Presenting Hierarchies: Show the chain of command or reporting lines. Onboarding New Employees: Help new hires quickly familiarize themselves with the organization. How to Create a Dynamic Chart in Jedox With Jedox widgets, creating an organizational chart becomes an easy process. Widgets allow you to dynamically pass spreadsheet data into an HTML/JavaScript code snippet to render visualizations. Here’s an example: Spreadsheet Setup: Organize your data in a parent-child format. Usually, this is the data that comes from Dimension. For this example, we will copy bellow table into dimension "OrgStructure" which will be used in...
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Simple Scrolling Marquee Widget for Your Jedox Dashboard

Simple Scrolling Marquee Widget for Your Jedox Dashboard

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
Creating dynamic and visually engaging dashboards is crucial for effectively presenting financial data in Jedox. One way to add a dynamic visual element to your dashboard is by incorporating a scrolling widget. This guide will walk you through creating a simple marquee widget, which can display important announcements or highlights within your Jedox dashboard. What is a Marquee? It is a scrolling text effect that runs across a webpage. Although the HTML tag is outdated and not recommended for modern web development, it is still supported by many browsers and can be used for quick and simple effects like the one we are creating here.   Why Use a Marquee Widget? Dynamic Content: It adds a dynamic element to your dashboard, making it visually appealing and drawing attention to important information.Ease of Use: Simple to implement and customize, a marquee widget can be quickly added to any dashboard.Highlight Important Information: Use a marquee to highlight important announcements, updates, or key financial metrics.   Adding the Marquee to...
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Connect Jedox Cloud and Power BI

Connect Jedox Cloud and Power BI

by Jedox 4 Beginners4 Comments
To connect Jedox to Power BI, you will need to follow these steps: Make sure that the oData Hub service is running. (check Cloud Console) Obtain the Jedox OData API URL: usually, add odata before the cloud name. Example https://odata.test-jedox4begginers.cloud.jedox.com/DATABASENAME. It is also essential to add a database name at the end. In our case, we will put Biker as a database. Connect to Jedox from Power BI: Here, click on the "Get Data" button in the Home tab, and select "OData Feed" from the list of available data sources. Paste the Jedox OData API URL into the "URL" field, and click "OK" to connect to the Jedox server. Add the username and password. Depending if your team is using SSO choose Windows or Basic for standard Jedox credentials. Import data into Power BI: Once connected to the Jedox server, you can select the Jedox cubes or views you want to import into Power BI. Select the cube or view from the list of available tables,...
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Building Dynamic Calendars in Jedox

Building Dynamic Calendars in Jedox

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of crafting a calendar widget within the Jedox platform. This endeavor requires the presence of a Day dimension enriched with an additional attribute named 'NextDay.' The overarching goal is to fashion a dynamic calendar capable of accommodating additional dimensions, effectively transforming it into a versatile data planning hub. This widget can prove invaluable for various use cases such as task planning, reminders, and monitoring planning cycles availability, all achieved seamlessly within a spreadsheet environment without the need for any coding expertise. Basic familiarity with Excel is all that is required. Creating the Time Dimension The foundation of our calendar widget is laid with the creation of a Time dimension. Utilizing a straightforward dimension creation approach, we will employ the Dimension Template 'Day.' This template will undergo augmentation with an extra attribute known as 'NextDay,' dynamically generated through Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes. The 'NextDay' attribute serves as a representation of the following day...
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How to create a colour picker in Jedox?

How to create a colour picker in Jedox?

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
Jedox has a wide range of possibilities when it comes to reporting since it is working based on Excel technology. Having that in mind it might happen that sometimes you will need to add a colour picker to your dashboard. Here is an example of how it could be done. On the spreadsheet, you can put the colours which could be chosen Set up a macro which will be trigged when colour is clicked ="<a href=""#"" title='"&U5&"' style=""height:100%;width:100%;display:inline-block;color:"&U5&";background-color:"&U5&";"" onclick=""Jedox.wss.macro.exec([true,['Module1.saveColorToVariable','"&V5&"']])""> </a>" Create the macro in the Macro Editor function saveColorToVariable ( $color ) { define_variable ( 'varColor' , $color ); //return do_close(); } That is it!! In case you are not a person who has much sense for colours, there are amazing patterns of colours on this website. An example of the project can be found here....
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Create slideshow widget in Jedox

Create slideshow widget in Jedox

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
Jedox provides many possibilities when creating a report or a dashboard. Apart from native components like buttons, combo, and checkboxes, lists and dynaranges Jedox allow developers to code their own widgets. One of them could be the slideshow widget. This widget can make your dashboard more interactive and interesting. Widgets in Jedox are coded via HTML and this is how you can create one. For our example, we will use Biker's best database whereas for dimension Product we will add attribute images. Value of attribute is the location of the image behind [ Example /pr/jedox/images/Bikes/Mountain Bikes.png ] Idea is to create an array of elements that could be used in the widget, which will contain: Product Name Product Image Data of selected Measure Measure That we will do with Dynarange and it should look something like this: Since coding behind the widget is a bit complex there will be a project available for download here. To learn more about widgets and what possibilities you can have with them check the...
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Creating sudoku in Jedox

Creating sudoku in Jedox

by Jedox 4 BeginnersNo Comments
Primarily designed as a planning tool, Jedox offers a wide range of possibilities when it comes to development. If we forget for a second HR, cost center, or some financial consolidation model and let our creative mind flow, we could come to this kind of application. Sudoku is a game that is designed in matrix form where the goal is to fill the cells with numbers from 1 to 9 that are not repeating on any axes. For our little project, we will design a database that will keep scores of users and set up the Sudoku. Dimensions inside will be: User (Copied from System database) Day Version of Sudoku [Easy,Medium,Advanced] Measure [Duration] For the Sudoku setup itself, we would have two dimensions Xaxe and Uaxe. Series of conditional formatting values will be responsible for checking if the numbers are in the correct order. Here you can find the whole project.  ...
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