Install and configure Superset reports

For information related to installation of Superset, see Cloud Native Unica Installation and Configuration Guide.

Note:
  • Before creating a Superset dashboard, confirm if you have completed the Superset configuration.
  • Before enabling Superset reports, ensure that you have disabled Unica Insights Reports.

To enable Superset reports within Unica, you must configure the following properties in the Settings > Configuration page and expand Reports and Integrations, and select Superset (Affinium|Reports|Integrations|Superset).

Enabled
Set to True to enable the Unica and Superset integrations. By default, this is set to False.
Superset URL
Superset instance URL.
Superset secret holder
Platform username against which the datasource created with name specified in Superset datasource property. The datasource contains the Superset Admin user login credentials, for example, asm_admin.
Superset Datasource
Datasource name created under the user specified in Superset secret holder property. For example, SUPERSET_DS.

Once the superset configuration in Unica is completed, you can create Superset dashboard through Platform Create dashboard page.

You will see the Embed Superset dashboard option while creating new dashboard only if following criteria is met:
  • The ReportsSystem role is assigned to the logged in user.
  • Under Superset node in Platform configuration, the Enabled flag is set to True.

After you create the embedded Superset dashboard, you can perform the all operations that can be performed in a standalone Superset environment.

Note:
  • User without ReportsSystem role, cannot create or edit the embedded Superset dashboard within Unica.
  • On click of Edit dashboard, all the list of charts available in Superset will be listed.
  • Deleting the Platform dashboard, will also delete its corresponding dashboard created in the Superset.
  • On the embedded Superset dashboards, edit chart and create chart are disabled using custom CSS.
  • If the charts added into embedded Superset dashboard uses userid in the SQL query then only user specific data is shown in the dashboard