#InterSystems IRIS BI (DeepSee)

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InterSystems Business Intelligence enables you to embed business intelligence (BI) into your applications so that your users can ask and answer sophisticated questions of their data. Specifically, your application can include dashboards, which can include the following:

  • Interactive widgets that execute queries designed for specific user roles or for specific areas of your user interface.
  • Controls such as drop-down lists and data choosers that enable users to modify these queries.
  • Interactive drill options that enable users to view the displayed data in different ways.
  • Options to export, print, and send alerts to other users.
  • An option to launch the Mini Analyzer, which supports free-form analysis.
  • Execute custom actions that are provided as buttons or other controls.

In contrast to traditional BI systems that use static data warehouses, Business Intelligence is kept closely in synchronization with the live transactional data, as required for your business.

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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Nov 26, 2025

I use $SELECT() in Architect to aggregate various data conditions into a single dimension.

I have a data table like this: id, user, userData1, userData2...

Where each user action is the %Integer ID of that action from some source. Then in expression field i use: $SELECT(userAction1:"This user action", userAction2:"That user action".) and so on, up to 14 conditions, excluding the default placeholder 1:"Other" (which is always empty because there is a condition with 100% chance).

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Question Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr · Nov 6, 2025

Hi community
I have a persistent data class where there are some properties that contain underscores in their names, for example:
Property "client_name" As %String(MAXLEN = 250) [ SqlFieldName = client_name ];
In Architect, I would like to use this property in an expression, in this field:

But I can't figure it out. If I use %source.client_name, it gives a compilation error. If I use %source."client_name", it treats it as the string "client_name" instead of getting the value from the field. Any suggestions on how to do this?

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Question Giulia Ghielmi · Oct 30, 2025

Hello everyone! 👋

I have a question regarding roles and resources. 

To give you some context: I have a user who has been assigned only the role %HS_UsageDashboard_Access.This allows them to access the dashboards correctly (by giving the direct URL). Then,  if I try to access the Management Portal with this same user, I can log in with no access to any resources within it (as expected).

The point is that I would like to completely deny him access to the Management Portal, while allowing him to view only the dashboards, as expected from the %HS_UsageDashboard_Access role.

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Question David.Satorres6134 · Oct 9, 2023

Hello all,

I'm trying to build a cube based on a linked table but seems that IRIS is not able to do it :O

Long story short, I have a linked table in IRIS that sources a Microsoft SQL table (using standard linked feature from the portal). It works fine, I can access it using SQL as many other times. On top of that, I've created in DeepSee (ok, Analytics) a cube that uses this class as source. It compiles correctly, no errors given. When I build it with 100 records, all goes well and using Analyzer I can see results.

Existing cube deleted.
Fact table built:             1,000 fact(s) (Max number of worker(s) used at a time: 1)
Fact indices built:           1,000 fact(s) (1 worker(s) used)

Complete
Elapsed time:                  1.788246s
Source expression time:        0.000856s
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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Oct 16, 2025

Hi community.
I have a query:

SELECTFROMSELECT

This query should filter the data by the minimum value of the somDate field, but it doesn't. It displays all values ​​together, regardless of the external filter. The exact same query (without the $$$ tokens, of course) works fine in a regular SQL runtime.
My guess is that the $$$RESTRICT does this

WHERE source.%ID IN (

And outer WHERE is just left unseen
Is there a way to fix this?

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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Aug 21, 2025

I work a lot with IRIS BI, but some features are still a mystery to me. There is a great feature here that allows you to create expressions in Architect.
 
I'm already very familiar with it, but I still don't quite understand what environment it uses.

It can execute system classes like $SYSTEM.SQL,  $PIECE(), %cube, %source(), it can do string concatenation, call methods from another classes.
I have two questions actually.
What environment it uses to execute this? Is it ObjectScript, SQL, MDX or maybe even its own?

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Question Georgia Gans · Aug 11, 2025

Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a treeMapChart in IRIS BI that will then be displayed on my DeepSeeWeb dashboard. In the IRIS BI User Portal, this is an example of what my treeMapChart looks like:

I know there is a huge amount of rectangles in this graphic - I care most about the common components (the largest boxes) but I still want all of the boxes to show. However, it projects to my DeepSeeWeb dashboard as the following: 

The labels do not show, even if I hover over the boxes.

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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · May 19, 2025

I have a widget that uses "choose Data source" control option. Termlist for the control consist of the two data sources and i want to set one of them by default. For example: I have two data sources, one is grouped by month, the other by year. I need to set the one that is grouped by year by default 

Using default value at the bottom return an error

How can i achive that?

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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Mar 25, 2025

Hi!
I have question about MDX functionality in context of IRIS Analytics.

How does IRIS MDX distinct selection works? Is there any restruqtion when analyzing strings? Like special symbols or length?
Here is an example
I have this data:
 6 rows and 2 of them unique
Then we create data cube based on this model and examine it with Analyzer
 
Detailed listing

6 rows an ONE unique string. Which is obviously not true. 
This happed only with string with symbols in it
My task is to get the right amount of unique strings

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Question David.Satorres6134 · Feb 18, 2025

Hello all,

We are currently developing a set of cubes in Unified Care Report (UCR) for data analysis purposes. However, we are encountering issues with cube dependencies, where certain cubes rely on others to be compiled beforehand. The complexity of these dependencies is becoming increasingly difficult to manage, particularly when attempting to deploy the cubes.

The problem arises when trying to compile a cube that depends on another cube, which may also have its own dependencies. For instance, when compiling the Test.Cube.EncounterHealthPlans

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Question DJ Pavucsko · Oct 28, 2024

Hi, I'm new to the Analytics world in Intersystems and was attempting to print and/or export selected rows from a detail listing in a pivot on a dashboard.  I am able to print and/or export all the rows; but if I select a specific set of rows, it prints out the entire detail listing; not the selected rows. Please advise on the best approach to accomplish this task.  Thanks.

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Question Virat Sharma · May 29, 2024

Hi All,

I am working on SQL based KPI in IRIS BI. I want to remove below highlighted search text box in "auto" filter type.

We cannot use other type like only dropdown etc. Is there a way we can do this ? 

One way I can see is writing own control instead of using default control but I am not aware how to do this. I didn't find any sample code for this. 

Is there any sample code available for writing custom control which I can refer.

Please assist

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Question Nick Petrocelli · Nov 13, 2023

Hello all,

Currently I am trying to create a pivot table based on a cube with several calculated measures that perform a distinct member count, as in https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20231/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls… . However, when I add these measures as the columns of the pivot table, the resulting row generation step can take a long time (at least five minutes). This includes row generation when performing drill-downs.

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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Feb 3, 2023

When requesting /MDX2JSON/PivotVariables/Patients?Namespace Patients shoud be passed to a method but its not. When argument passed directly into the method it works.

Has something changed in IRIS and this syntax is deprecated, or is there a bug and the colon is ignored? What could it be?
This question is continuation from https://community.intersystems.com/node/534811

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Question Colin Overton · Jan 19, 2023

Hi All,

I'm looking to write a 3rd party front end for BI cubes and have been directed towards the REST API here: https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20222/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls…

I've had quick test using postman and can use those fine, the issue I have is that there are some areas of metadata not exposed by the api that are essential to write a front end tool. I can list the cubes and measures using the /INFO/ paths, but that seems to be the limit of what is available.

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Question Max Maduri · Aug 30, 2022

Hello,

I am still trying to figure that Calculated Measure stuff and I hope to learn from you. I have several cubes I am trying to create calculated measures using the Calculated Member Expression.

I have a cube called Cards. There is a measure called count that give total cards count of 15,000. There are two dimensions I am considering. One is the CreditGrade (A, B, C, D, nograde) and the other is the date of the scoredate.(2000-2015).

The CreditGrade dimension has two hierarchies. H1 being the creditnumber and H2 being the CreditGrade (The one I need).

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Question Steve Pisani · Jun 8, 2022

Hi,

I have 3 simple tables:  Encounter, Patient and Immunizations.  Encounter makes  a reference to Patient, and Patient contains a list of Immunization objects.  

I've tried using PowerBI to access IRIS (using ODBC connector, not InterSystems BI connector),  PowerBI reports the error:

Expression.Error: The column 'Patient' of the table wasn't found.
Details:
    Patient

it does this for two of the three tables I need only (Patient and Encounter), but not for Immunization IRIS table.. 

Anyone know why and how to fix  ?

Thanks - Steve

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