Managed Folder tree-like view and preview for readable files

PhilippeL

Hello,

My team and me have a massive usage of managed folders for basically anything we do by code. Indeed, we have mixed data types (parquet, json, pickle, xlsx, etc) and to use them we found managed folders easy to use and work in Python.

We find it difficult to navigate in a Managed Folder (DSS 13.5.4) and we think that it would be great to have a display as a tree-like structure of a Managed Folder, for example :

Where the + are clickable buttons to unfold a folder etc.

It would improve user experience since sometimes when we store objects, the data can be sitting far away in the tree.

Plus, it would be great to add some option to copy to clipboard the full path of a selected file.

And last but not least, it would be great to have an enhanced simple preview for readable files like csv, parquet, or even xlsx directly on the managed folder instead of having :

Thank you very much

Turribeach

While there are no built solutions for your requirement there are a couple of ways you can have this functionality:

1. Move your Managed folders to a network share which is mounted in the DSS server but also accessible to Windows and Mac clients as a network share. That way you get your tree-like structure navigation and files preview "for free" as these OSes have that functionality built-in
2. Develop a Dataiku Webapp to display your managed folders in a tree-like structure. You could also implement preview on your file types by using Python to extract few rows from each file format you want to support

While I don't have any association with Dataiku I know that their appetite for new features is dimished if the use case can be covered by custom coding or a different implementation. So I think if you really want this you should at the above options.