How do we setup the visual?


This visual has 2 main configuration blocks: Config and Format

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Config

This section contains the settings for the cloud storage provider. The settings depend on the specific provider, so we will detail all the cases below.

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Microsoft Azure

Before looking at the configurations, please make sure you have your Azure storage account set up. In case of doubt on how to do that, here is a tutorial.

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Storage account name: This is the name of the Storage account in Azure

Container name: The Storage account can have multiple containers where the files are stored. This may be useful to have isolated environments, for example. The Storage Explorer visual will connect to the one specified here.

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Shared access signature: This is how the visual gets permission to interact with the Storage account. For more information about how this value works and how to generate it, read this.

AWS

AWS is Amazon’s cloud provider services. In order to use them, a configured S3 service is needed. Here is more information on how to set that up.

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Bucket name: S3 can be configured to have multiple buckets where the files are stored. This may be useful to have isolated environments, for example. The Storage Explorer visual will connect to the one specified here.

Bucket region name: S3 can be configured in different regions, similar to how there can be multiple buckets.

Access Key Id: This is the Id to pair it with the secret access key.