Managing a Source

You can enable, hide, ignore, empty, or delete a data source in Prepare.

Important: For Advanced spaces, after uploading a data source to you need to enable the source. By default the source is set to Ignore in Advanced spaces. See Enabling Sources.

Ignored Sources

If a data source is set to Ignore, the data source is not included during Process Data execution. Any data contained in the ignored data source cannot be accessed. When a data source is ignored, all prior relationships configured for the ignored source are canceled. If the ignored data source is the source for an ETL (scripted) data source, upon changing the status to Ignore Source, the ETL data source is no longer valid.

Empty Sources

The Empty Source option truncates all the data from the data source although Birst maintains the structure of the table. This allows you to remove data from a space without having to fully delete the source.

Deleted Sources

The Delete Source option permanently deletes the source from Birst. The database table and all the relationships defined with this source are deleted.

To change the status of a source

  1. Navigate to Prepare.

  2. In the Sources panel, click Actions on a data source you want to manage.

  3. You can:

    1. Click Empty Source to empty the source of data.

    2. Click Model Source to model the source in Relate.

    3. Select Source status, and then click Show source, Hide source, or Ignore source.
      Note: If you ignore a source, the source is grayed out in the Sources panel. If you hide a source, you can re-enable it by clicking Show source.

      4. Click Delete to delete the source.
      Note: If you delete a source, it will be removed from the page.