Connect to your local files

Local Files

You can create a data connection to your local data saved on your device. Your local files need to be uploaded to Xceed Analytics so you can create a connection. Currently, we support .csv, .tsv and excel file formats.

Clicking on the file icon will open up a window where you can provide a name and description for the connector you’re creating.

Here you can choose and upload your file. A window for uploading your local file via connector as below, will appear

1. Click the file icon you see in the view.
2. fill up the name and description
3. Choose a delimiter of your choice .The suppported formats as follows:
   • Comma seperated
   • Colon seperated
   • Tab seperated
4. After you click on the delimiter of your choice you will see a sub view which will ask you to add a file from your local system.
5. When you add the file from the local system you will see a progress bar. When the upload is complete you will see a prompt coming up saying File upload successful
6. Click on Create

info

1. Local file dataconnector for tsv, csv assumes that the first row of the file contains the header details.
2. Max File Size Supported for Local file uploads is 500MB.
3. File upload and its responsiveness is subject to the local device memory limitations, internet upload speeds and the availability of disk space on the target.
4. Scheduled refreshes aren’t supported for local files.
5. All Files uploaded are cached in a folder on the target to make them available for analysis. Xceed Analytics doesn’t try to act as a data lake and doesn’t backup or guarantee against loss of data.