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Customizing your Dashboard with the Custom content widget
Data Studio Dashboards can be configured by adding, ordering and resizing different widgets including Views and Charts. One of these widgets is the Custom content widget: Firstly drag the Custom content widget onto your Dashboard. Next add some text that your colleagues will find useful: Add style 🕶 To make this…
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Automations - License Expiring Event
We have been unable to trigger the License Expiring Event for 'License Days Remaining Less than 365' with a Notification to users. License Expiration is Aug 2, 2025. What needs to happen to trigger this event? We've had a dataset load, complete workflow and waited overnight. We were only able to generate an notification…
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Use a value in your data as the export file name
If you are looking to use a value in your data as the export file name, you may have looked at the Export step and realized that it does not allow you to directly select a value from your data as a filename component. However, you can actually use a workflow parameter as a filename component to achieve this. You will have…
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How can we trigger notification to users if there is a delay in incoming file?
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Notification filters
Let's say I have 100 workflows and would like to set up an automation to send me email when they are completed, except for 3 of them. Is there a way to exclude those three from triggering the automation? In the filter settings for the triggering event I can add a "Workflow is not equal to" filter but it only accepts one…
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Workflow not completed - notification
Hi All! Is there a way to set an (e-mail) notification in case a workflow has been stuck? Meaning it has not been completed after a certain period of time. I know we have a notification for failed workflows, but can not find anything for scenario "started, but not completed." Thanks!
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Notifications based on emails in the data
We have 50 service desks placing orders for customers around the country. We want to monitor those orders for data quality errors and notify the desk leaders of any fails which occur on an hourly basis during the working day. Currently each notification email address has to be typed in manually, so even though the desk…
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How to set up an export file name based on a fixed or variable input
In this article, we will be exploring a number of ways to set up an export file name. Imagine you start with a simple workflow where you have a Source step and Export step. You want to export the source data to a csv file on the server export directory. Use default export file name By default, the filename consists of two…
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Setting up a parameter to work across multiple workflows
Hi, I have a workflow parameter that feeds into both a column and and export. The problem I have is that the export is on a secondary workflow that is triggered by a fire event if it has rows. I have tried to add the parameter to the custom event and added the workflow parameter to both workflows, however I am struggling…
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Triggering workflow executions upon file arrival in Aperture Data Studio v1 versus v2
Aperture Data Studio is commonly used for operational data quality management. This would mean that you are regularly pulling up-to-date information from multiple transactional systems used within your organization such that you can centrally perform data quality checks and improvements. This prepares the data for further…
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Connecting to an SMTP email server that does not require authentication
Data Studio lets you configure an SMTP server connection, which can then be used to send email notifications when particular events occur. Some SMTP servers do not require authentication: username and password details do not need to be provided. In this case, when you click the "Test SMTP Configuration" button after…
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How to trigger an e-mail notification if a job fails
Data Studio has a range of default notification options which allow you to send a custom email to defined users when certain important events occur. One common use for this is to have Data Studio send an email when a workflow execution fails. To do this we'll be using Notifications and Event Data Items. First, you'll need…