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Dynamic Custom Fields
Most SaaS products let their customers create custom fields.
Each customer chooses different names and uses a different subset of fields.
Sisense does not support this natively. A typical OEM data model exposes generic placeholders such as: f1, f2, f3, f4, f5.
Your application knows what these mean for each customer. Sisense doesn’t, so it shows all placeholders to everyone.
Result:
- Users see irrelevant fields
- Customers complain about empty fields
- You maintain Metadata rules manually
- Some OEMs create one cube per customer
- Onboarding becomes slow and messy
The Dynamic Custom Fields plugin solves all of this.
How the plugin works (real example)
Let’s say your shared schema has 5 generic fields: f1, f2, f3, f4, f5.
Your application stores the meaning of these fields in a mapping table.
Customer A:
- f1 → Product Tier
- f2 → Contract Owner
- f3 → Priority Level
- f4 → (not used)
- f5 → Renewal Score
Customer B:
- f1 → Region Category
- f2 → Account Owner
- f3 → (not used)
- f4 → Account Segment
- f5 → Churn Rating
This means:
- Both customers share f1 and f2 but name them differently
- Customer A uses f3 and f5
- Customer B uses f4 and f5
- Sisense normally shows all 5 placeholders
- The plugin filters and renames fields per user
Customer A sees:
Product Tier
Contract Owner
Priority Level
Renewal Score
Customer B sees:
Region Category
Account Owner
Account Segment
Churn Rating
Without the plugin:
f1, f2, f3, f4, f5 appear for everyone.
What problems this solves:
1. Users stop seeing irrelevant fields
2. You no longer need the Metadata plugin to rename fields
3. You keep a single cube for all customers
4. Your UI becomes accurate everywhere
5. You avoid major OEM BI scaling issues
Where the plugin works inside Sisense
- Dashboard Filter
- Widget Filter
- Widget data panel
- Formula Editor
Additional capabilities
- Auto-detection of new custom fields
When customers add fields in your app, the mapping updates and the plugin automatically:- Adds the new field to filters
- Shows it in formulas
- Shows it in widget panels
- Hides unused placeholders
- Integration with Paldi plugins
- Expandable Pivot – dynamic fields as pivot dimensions.
- Advanced Table – sortable, filterable, exportable dynamic fields.
- Dim Switcher – dynamic fields as switchable dimensions.
Who should use this plugin
This plugin is ideal for Sisense implementations where:
- Customers define their own custom fields
- A single shared schema needs to support many tenants
- Field names differ from customer to customer
- Only relevant fields should appear in Sisense dialogs
- You want to avoid cube duplication or per-customer metadata work
If your product relies on dynamic custom fields, this plugin is the cleanest way to make Sisense reflect your application’s logic accurately.
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