Data connections

In the Data Connections dashboard, you define data connections within a specific application. Select Dashboards > Applications Administration > Data Connections.

Data connections provide access to these categories of data source:

  • OLAP
  • XMLA Providers

    This category includes external OLAP providers.

  • Relational Providers

On the Usage tab, you can specify which clients and other applications the data source can be used with.

For XMLA and relational connections, you can edit the properties of connections only through the options on the Advanced tab, and on the Service Specific tab of a service in the Services dashboard. There is no interface in which to view or edit connection strings directly.

The Advanced tab for OLAP has an option to select the format of the unique names of elements. This enables you to create multiple data connections to the same OLAP database, each with a different unique name format.