Usage of Visual Explorer nodes¶
Visual Explorer is a powerful add-on application for MindSphere, that allows for creating custom visualizations of your data. You can integrate data from different assets, files or queries in a single dashboard and apply custom calculations, filters or aggregations.
Visual Explorer nodes allows to list, delete and create or update the datasources in Visual Explorer. For more information, see Visual Explorer Getting Started documentation.
Note
To enable these Visual Explorer nodes in Visual Flow Creator, you need to login Visual Explorer application at least once.
List datasources¶
The "list datasources" node allows to list all the datasources from Visual Explorer and display the data in the message payload.
Example¶
To execute the example flow using list datasources node, follow these steps:
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Create the flow as shown below:
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Save and execute the flow.
Output in the message payload¶
The list of the datasources are displayed in the message payload successfully.
Config datasource¶
The "config datasource" node allows to create or update a datasource in Visual Explorer.
Example¶
To execute the example flow using config datasource node, follow these steps:
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Create the flow as shown below:
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Edit config datasource node to create or update a datasource.
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Save and execute the flow.
Output¶
The datasource is created or updated successfully.
Delete datasource¶
The "delete datasource" node allows to delete a datasource from Visual Explorer.
Example¶
To execute the example flow using delete datasource node, follow these steps:
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Create the flow as shown below:
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Edit delete datasource node to delete a datasource.
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Save and execute the flow.
Output¶
The datasource is deleted successfully.
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