Business Intelligence nodes¶

Business Intelligence is a powerful add-on application, that allows 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.

Business Intelligence nodes allows you to list, delete and create or update the datasources in Business Intelligence. For more information, refer to Business Intelligence Getting Started documentation.

The "insights hub bi" nodes and their respective functions in Visual Flow Creator are described in the following sections:

• List datasources node
• Config datasource node
• Delete datasource node

List datasources node¶

The "list datasources" node allows you to list all the datasources from Business Intelligence and display the data in the message payload.

Using list datasource node¶

To execute the example flow using list datasources node, follow these steps:

1. From the node palette, drag and drop the "inject" node from the input palette, "list datasources" node from the insights hub bi palette and "debug" node from output palette to the working area. Connect the nodes in a flow as shown below:

   

2. Double click on the "inject" node to edit the properties. For more information, refer to Editing nodes.

3. Double click on the "list datasources" node to edit the properties.

   • Enter the "Name".
   • Click "Done".

4. Save and execute the flow.

The list of the datasources are displayed in the message payload successfully.

Config datasource node¶

The "config datasource" node allows you to create or update a datasource in Business Intelligence.

Using config datasource node¶

To execute the example flow using config datasource node, follow these steps:

1. From the node palette, drag and drop the "inject" node from input palette, "config datasource" node from insights hub bi palette and "debug" node from output palette to the working area. Connect the nodes in a flow as shown below:

   

2. Double click on the "inject" node to edit the properties. For more information, refer to Editing nodes.

3. Double click on the "config datasource" node to edit the properties.

   • Enter the "Name".
   • In the "Model" section, you can select any one of the options from the dropdown menu.
   • Enter the "Datasource name".
   • In the "Project" section, you can select any one of the options from the dropdown menu.
   • In the "Type" section, you can select any one of the options from the dropdown menu.
   • To enter the "Resource Config", click .
   • In the "Acquisition" section, you can select any one of the options from the dropdown menu.
   • Click "Done".

4. Save and execute the flow.

The datasource is created or updated successfully.

Delete datasource node¶

The "delete datasource" node allows you to delete a datasource from Business Intelligence.

Using delete datasource node¶

To execute the example flow using delete datasource node, follow these steps:

1. From the node palette, drag and drop the "inject" node from input palette and "delete datasource" node from the output palette to the working area. Connect the nodes in a flow as shown below:

   

2. Double click on the "inject" node to edit the properties. For more information, refer to Editing nodes.

3. Double click on the "delete datasource" node to edit the properties.

   • Enter the "Name".
   • In the "Datasource" section, you can select any one of the options from the dropdown menu.
   • Click "Done".

4. Create the flow as shown below:

The datasource is deleted successfully.