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.

General

• Validate a specification file

• Use variables and references

Data intake

• Access local files

• Cache data

Data processing

• Build a pipeline programmatically

• Branch a pipeline

Data visualization

• Define views

• Build a dashboard programmatically

• Deploy a dashboard

Data output

• Download data from dashboard

Advanced topics

• Access custom components

• Configuring authentication