Category: Help

  • Refresh DBRs by Groups

    Refresh DBRs by Groups

    By default when you input a value in a cell containing DBRs in Canvas, all the DBRs will refresh. From Canvas 2.0 and up, you can now group the DBRs so that when you input a value, only the DBRs of the same group as that input will be refreshed. This could greatly improve the…

  • Synchronizing SUBNM and URL

    Synchronizing SUBNM and URL

    This article describes how to make the SUBNM component to sync with the URL whenever it changes. This will also describe how the SUBNM’s initialization works.

  • Repeat more than one row in your table

    Repeat more than one row in your table

    This article describes how to repeat two rows for one item using the angular directive, ng-repeat-start:

  • Customize PDF export layout with CSS and Bootstrap

    Customize PDF export layout with CSS and Bootstrap

    One of the great feature of Canvas is that the style of your dashboard can be different regardless of viewing it in a web browser or as PDF format.

  • Configuring SheetJS (Optional Library)

    Configuring SheetJS (Optional Library)

    Beginning with Canvas version 1.2.2, optional libraries will be included within assets folder but will need to be enabled before it can be used. This will involve:

  • Which files are overwritten during a Canvas upgrade

    Which files are overwritten during a Canvas upgrade

    During a Canvas upgrade, the installer can upgrade either the Cubewise Application Server or the application folders (webapps) or both. That is why you have to be careful about which files you can and can’t be changed to allow upgrades to work smoothly.

  • License file

    License file

    The Canvas application server will not work without a license file. To get a license file, you need to send the server name to your Cubewise local office. You need one license file per server.

  • Deep dive into an application folder

    Deep dive into an application folder

    All application folders are stored in the CWAS/webapps folder, by default you have only two applications ROOT and samples. In this article we are going to describe the folders inside the ROOT folder.

  • CWAS folder

    CWAS folder

    By default the Cubewise Application Server will be installed in the following folder C:CWAS

  • Page break in PDF report

    Page break in PDF report

    When printing a report using Canvas, you can customize as much as you like the PDF output. There are lots of CSS properties that you can use such as CSS Media Queries to update for instance the background color of the PDF. The PDF can be very different from the HTML page.