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Importing an application

In Cloudera Data Visualization, you can import dashboards, apps and other visual artifacts exported from another system. All you need is the appropriate JSON file that captures the complete definition of the app, including its dependencies: its own app definition, subgroup app definitions, visuals, dashboards, datasets, and custom styles.

  1. Click DATA on the main navigation bar.
  2. Select the connection where to import the artifacts.

    In this example Samples has been selected showing connecting to the same data source for both systems.

  3. At the top of the screen, click the Supplemental menu.
  4. In the Supplemental menu, click the Import Visual Artifacts option.

    The Import Visual Artifacts modal window appears.

  5. Click Choose File.
  6. Select the file you want to import.
  7. Specify the destination workspace in the Import to Workspace drop-down menu.
    By default, Cloudera Data Visualization imports the visual artifacts into your Private workspace. However, you can choose the Public workspace, or another custom workspace as well.
  8. Specify how you want to handle thumbnails.
    There are three options:
    • Import from the file
    • Generate new thumbnails
    • Skip thumbnail import
    By default, Cloudera Data Visualization imports the thumbnails from the file. However, you can choose to generate new thumbnails during the import process, or skip thumbnail import.
  9. Define the Disregard artifacts that exist in other workspaces option.
    Before importing an artifact, Cloudera Data Visualization searches for it on the system. If it already exists, it is either updated (if changed from a previous import), or left 'as is'. If it does not exist, it is imported as a new visual artifact. By default, the search domain is the entire system. By selecting this option, you are limiting the search to the specified workspace.
  10. Select the Check data table compatibility option.
    This option is 'on' by default.
  11. Click IMPORT.

    After processing the import JSON file, Cloudera Data Visualization opens the Import interface to show its visual artifacts. In this example, it displays the visual artifacts that you saved earlier into a JSON file during export. All items saved into the app_documentation_collateral.json file during export appear on the interface. The Planned Action column shows that this is a new import for some artifacts and they don't have an assigned ID.

    In the Importing a dashboard example, the dashboard Flight Delay Information, and its dependencies: visuals Departure Delay by Airline & Day of the week, Originating Airport, and Originating Airport by State, the Custom Style Category colors in tables, and the dataset Flight Data were all imported. For details, see Importing a dashboard. The dataset has changed (the description parameter was edited), so the Planned Action is to Replace. The rest of these artifacts is unchanged, so they appear with Planned Action set to None.

  12. Click ACCEPT AND IMPORT.
After the import completes, a success message appears on the Import interface. All the artifacts have an assigned ID, which are generated by the system, sequentially. Visuals/Dashboards and datasets have separate ID queues.

For instructions on how to export an app, see Exporting an application.

For more information about the visual artifact migration utility, see Exporting and importing visual artifacts.