A key aspect of running your Yellowfin site is the ability to inform yourself or your customers proactively when their licenses are going to expire.
When using a date field in a chart, you have the option to enable the Time Series functionality. This will allow you to convert your time axis to display as a proper time scale and view your data trends and patterns over time, rather than what I call a categorical type display.
Most of you are familiar with the yellowfin.log file as this is the file Yellowfin requests if you log a call.
These days everything requires passwords, and lots of them. It therefore is very normal that you will forget a password every now and then.
A great way to make your charts and dashboards more usable is to include dynamic text based on user selections. This can be achieved using Yellowfin’s new Text Parameter Replacement feature.
I am receiving many questions lately from users that are unable to start their Yellowfin environment. There are several reasons for this, mostly it is related to an incorrect Java path.
If you read this blog and you are working in the Business Intelligence (BI) industry, you probably know what I talk about when I say that almost every company I have worked with, every client that I have met often do not know the extent of their data.