How to Guides#
Lumen’s How to Guides provide step by step recipes for solving essential problems and tasks. They are more advanced than the Getting Started material and assume some knowledge of how Lumen works.
Data Intake#
Learn how to use a local or remote file as a source for your dashboard.
Learn how to locally cache data to speed up reloading from a remote Source.
Data Processing#
Learn the basics of how to build a Lumen Pipeline programmatically with Python.
Learn how to build branching pipelines, allowing for views of the same source data at different steps in processing.
Visualize and Deploy#
Learn how to define views on your dashboard.
Learn how to build a Lumen Dashboard programmatically with Python.
Learn how to deploy a visual instantiation of your dashboard.
Validation#
Learn how to validate the YAML file that specifies a Lumen dashboard.
Data Output#
Learn how to enable your dashboard’s viewer to download data.
Advanced Topics#
How to use variables and references to link objects across the YAML file.
Learn how to access local files that build custom components.
Learn how to configure authentication for your dashboard.
Learn how to perform custom actions with callbacks.