General Settings

The General Configuration settings let you define the web server’s alias, the first day of the week, email settings, and more.

To update one or more settings:

  1. Click Admin in the top menu, and then General Settings on the left.

  2. Update one or more of the following settings:

    • Alias: Define the web server’s alias or IP address. This is especially important when you have customized your domain name (alias), for example, to prevent example, sharing dashboards from the incorrect IP address. Reports are sent from the alias entered in this field.

    • First Day of the Week: Select the first day of the week so all of your Sisense users’ queries are be calculated according to the day you define. By default, the first day of the week is Monday when querying an ElastiCube. Sisense defines Monday as the first day according to ISO 8601. This means that when selecting filters such as Week 1, Week 2, etc., the first day of the week is not that defined by first day of that year, but rather the first Monday of the year. Each week starts on a Monday and ends on a Sunday for 52-53 full weeks in a year.

      Note:

      Changing the first day of week after using a dashboard or widget filter/drill with Weeks filter in use might lead to bad results. To resolve the issue, the Weeks filter should be removed and added again.

    • First Month of Fiscal Calendar: Select the first month of your company’s fiscal calendar. By default, the first month of the fiscal calendar is January.

      Note:

      Changing the first month of the fiscal calendar after using a dashboard or widget filter/drill with the related date fields is in use might lead to bad results. To resolve the issue the date filter should be removed and added again.

    • Default Language Select the language to be displayed in Sisense. If you have defined a custom translation, the name of the language as defined in the settings.json is displayed in this list. Select it to display your custom translation. For more information about custom translations, Internationalization and Localization.

    • Send Emails: You can disable sending emails. This disables emails sent when sharing dashboards as well as any scheduled email reports.

    • Update on Every Change: You can choose whether new dashboards are updated automatically on every filter change or not. Not updating on every change may be useful when users are working with very large datasets where query times might be slower. If you opt not to update automatically, a button becomes available to Viewers on the dashboard that they have to click each time they want to update the dashboard after filter change.

      Viewers can override this setting for individual dashboards by toggling on the “Update on Every Change” switch on their dashboard settings.

      Note:

      Toggling the Update on Every Change switch only impacts dashboards created after the option was toggled off.

    • Patents: Click to open a list of Sisense patents in your web browser.

  3. Click Save.

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