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Advanced Guide: Updating the Advanced Settings for a datasource

Overview

The Advanced Settings for a datasource gives you more control over how your data is being imported into Alli.

Instructions

  1. To update the Advanced Settings for a datasource, navigate to the datasource configuration page.

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  1. Open the Advanced Settings panel and make any changes you need. Click Save in the lower left of the screen to save the changes.

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Advanced Settings Configuration Options

  • Current Owner: Indicates who can make updates to the datasource and what email will receive notifications about the datasource.

  • Tags: Indicates which tags are applied to the datasource. More can be added or removed.

  • Description: Indicates what this data is being used for.

  • Status: Indicates the current status of the datasource.

    • Active: The datasource is importing data on the automated schedule.

    • Inactive: The datasource is not importing data on the automated schedule.

    • Deleted: Deletes the datasource from Alli.

  • Schedule: Indicates the cadence of data imports.

    • Default: The datasource is importing data on the normal automated schedule.

    • Real Time: The datasource is importing data on an hourly cadence.

  • Data Location: The location of where the data is being imported. This can be it’s own table or an existing table.

  • CSV Delimiter: The symbol Alli should use to parse CSV files, if applicable.

  • New Uploads: The mechanism for how Alli will insert data into the Data Location.

    • Add and update: Alli will add any new rows or update any existing rows based on the datasources dimensions and attributes.

    • Replace: Alli will replace the entire existing table’s data with the new data on each import.

    • Replace date range: Alli will delete and replace data for each date within the new data on each import. Requires a date column for the datasource.