Datazen survival guide
Find links to articles, blogs, videos and other great content provided by and for the Datazen community. Please help us keep this page up-to-date by adding links to content worth sharing.
Documentation
Setup
- Datazen hardware recommendations for moderate to heavy query workloads
- (video) Datazen server installation
- Setting up Datazen server (SQL Server Pro Magazine)
- Getting Started with Datazen, Microsoft’s New Mobile Dashboard Platform (SQL Server Pro Magazine)
- Installing and Configuring a Distributed and Load Balanced Installation
- How to setup your Datazen server to leverage Office365 for e-mail notifications
- How to setup a test/dev Datazen server in Azure
- How to configure ADFS authentication for Datazen Server
- ADFS SETUP: Detailed Blog Post with Step by Step instructions
- Configuring Single-Sign-On
- Datazen Rendering Engine - fix rendering issues instructions
- Running Datazen Publisher on Windows Server
- Use a PowerShell script to restore your Datazen server
- An overview of Datazen Security Options
- Adjust Max Query String Length in web.config for Datazen
- SQL Server Migration Assistant for Datazen (Preview)
Data sources
- Use Excel as a data source for KPI's in Datazen
- Load on Demand, large data source, parameterized queries: blog post | video | docs
- Implementing Row Level Security for SSAS Data Views
- Personalizing data views
- Good example around how to write an MDX query for Datazen (about halfway through the blogpost)
- Another example on how to create a data view against Analysis Services
- Setup HDInsight as a data source in Datazen
- Setup SAP HANA as a data source in Datazen
- Connect to SAP from your Datazen Server using the Theobald connector
- Create a custom ODBC data source for Datazen
- Problematic column names in Datazen data sources
- How to enable user activity reporting in Datazen
- Tutorial - How to build a Datazen dashboard using Analysis Services data and MDX queries
- Setup Teradata as a data source in Datazen
- Datazen Data View Parameter Replacement Functions
- Tutorial - Datazen Load on Demand Using Analysis Services and MDX
- Oracle ODBC Error - Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow error
Dashboards
- Datazen = Beautiful Mobile Dashboards to Make Power Pivot Shine (on powerpivotpro.com)
- How to implement Drill-through functionality in Datazen
- Cascading Selection Lists
- Custom Maps: Working with | implementing
- Embedding HTML viewer: Web app | SharePoint
- Combine Datazen dashboards with Power BI Q&A functionality
- How to build dashboards directly on your test/dev Datazen server
- How to drill-through from a Datazen dashboard to Power View in SharePoint
- Using Datazen with Plus One to visualize your social media data
- Sample Custom Branding Packages: SampleWhiteBrand and SampleBlueBrand.
- Documentation for Custom Branding
- How to render a Datazen dashboard as an image file
- Insert a live Datazen dashboard into a PowerPoint slide
- Set default selection values for HTML5 dashboards in Datazen