Niels Thomsen
Articles
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DB2 as a data source - basic guide
What is it? DB2 data source allows you to connect to a DB2 database. How to do it? First of all there are some prerequisites. These prerequisites takes place outside TARGIT and are NOT describ...
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Directory as data source - basic guide
What is it? Directory is a type of data source that can be used as a repository, where Data Discovery automatically creates data sources based on the CSV-files or Excel files that are placed in ...
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Date time as a data source - basic guide
What is it? Data time is a type of data source that is meant for creating a dynamic table of dates that could connect a number of fact tables and create a shared time dimension in your data mode...
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CSV as data source - basic guide
What is it? CSV is a format that shows tabular data with a defined delimiter between each column of data. How to connect through Data Discovery? With Data Discovery you can connect to a local ...
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Alteryx as data source - basic guide
What is it? Alteryx is a platform that contains multiple tools, including a very visual ETL tool that can extract data from multiple sources, transform them and load them into an Alteryx datab...
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6 best practice recommendations for using and maintaining your Data Discovery Environment
When you add a lot of different data sources and cubes to your data discovery environment there are a few things that could help in keeping the environment healthy and also avoid getting misleading...
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8 things you can do yourself to improve performance in TARGIT
Performance is often quite complex to optimize. The list of what can potentially cause bad performance is long and often it turns up that it's maybe a combination of things that causes the performa...
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Create a summary of data in text
Graphs and tables requires interpretation. That takes time.Sometimes you could save the users some time by giving them a summary of the data in text form. Here's an example of how this is done usin...
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Different content in portrait and landscape versions of layout
With layouts you can create special versions of your dashboards for tablets and phones - and even have a portrait and landscape version. If someone accesses your dashboard with a tablet or phone - ...
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Mobile layouts that allow scrolling
When you create a mobile layout, you get this dialogue with a suggested resolution (for portrait mode 400x750). Original dialogue: If you go custom - you can set the height of the layout to a ...