The web configurator offers a reduced range of functions compared to the desktop configurator, but can be run in any modern web browser without prior installation.
The client can be accessed via configurator.biexcellence.com. It connects securely and directly to your open bi server using CORS.
Target group
The Web Configurator is aimed at system administrators and configurators and supports the following tasks:
Licence check
General settings via server parameters
Activity monitoring via system status and console trace
Definition of host headers for multi-domain management
Monitoring of batch jobs
Transport management
Administrating users, user groups, organisations and roles
Connection definition to source systems
Administration of blogs and blog entrys
To extend the standard tables with table attributes, to maintain basic entities and the CMS, the web configurator also offers limited functionalities.
Functionality
The web configurator first requires the entry of the login data:
After successful login, the menu bar on the left shows the available tasks:
The contents are shown in uniform lists. The list displays can be individually configured via the columns selector switch. Entries can be created, changed or deleted via the icons in the list header. The arrow icon appears each time associated detailed elements can be displayed for a selected element.
The maintenance fields available for each task are documented in detail in the Entities section.