Sources can be used to automatically catalog reports and datasets from various systems in dScribe, including a rich set of metadata per asset.
Creating a new source
A new source can be created via the Admin Portal > Sources. To connect to a source, you can make use of one of the Setup guides.
Don't see the connector you're looking for? It's possible that connector was not yet activated on your dScribe tenant. Contact us via our support application.
Scheduling a source
Once the relevant connection details have been added for a source, you can:
Define filtering rules (connector specific) - e.g. exclude PowerBI workspaces
Schedule the source as desired (Daily - Weekly)
Sources can also be crawled on demand by clicking the 'Run now' button. An overview of the 3 next scheduled runs and 3 previous runs will be displayed:
Please be aware that:
filtering in the sources is based on RegEx. This has as consequence that special characters (such as [ ], %, #, $, +, |, (), { }, *, ?, ^ need to be proceeded by a '\'.
Using wildcards. Imagine having 2 workspaces "PRD" and "PRD Sales". To include or exclude workspaces beginning with PRD the following filter should be set 'PRD.*' . The '.*' will include or exclude all characters mentioned after the 'PRD'.
dScribe uses standard APIs provided by the source vendors. As a result, broader authorizations may be required than originally intended. dScribe does not modify or adapt these standard APIs. If these authorizations pose challenges, a custom API will need to be developed by the customer or their implementation partner(s).