#data activator

[ibarrau]

[Fabric] Data Activator - Triggers y alerta instantánea

Uno de los servicios más recientes que nos trajo la suite de Fabric es Data Activator. Este no formaba parte del release inicial en preview y poco a poco se fue incorporando junto a los demás.

Hoy ya cuenta con un proceso y desarrollo más maduro que nos permite aprovecharlo para hacerlo parte de nuestros desarrollos. Considero que si alguna vez quisieron poder mejorar la experiencia de las alertas que existían en PowerBi, por este camino vamos a tener una herramienta más robusta para lograrlo. En este artículo vamos a realizar una alerta por teams sobre una regla de un modelo semántico de PowerBi. Por supuesto, no todo es alerta, veamos entonces un poco más en detalle el tema.

Data Activator

Vamos a comenzar como nos gusta hacer aqui en ladataweb, con la definición que Microsoft le da a su servicio:

"Data Activator es una experiencia sin código en Microsoft Fabric para realizar acciones automáticamente cuando se detectan patrones o condiciones en los datos cambiantes. Supervisa los datos de los informes de Power BI y los elementos Eventstreams, para cuando los datos alcanzan determinados umbrales o coinciden con otros patrones."

Dicho de otro modo más criollo podemos programar triggers en orígenes realtime, cómo eventstreams, o de un modelo semántico de PowerBi. Lo que nos garantiza la herramienta es que esta en constante escucha. Entonces, ni bien se cumpla una determinada regla, el trigger se ejecutaría para realizar la acción programada.

Veamos un poquito de teoría antes de comenzar:

Como todo servicio de Fabric, Data Activator puede crear items. Su item es el Reflex o Reflejo. Los Reflex nos permiten conectarnos a un origen de datos bajo el cual vamos a trabajar y las columnas involucradas para nuestros procesos. Cuando los datos ya están involucrados, hay unos conceptos importantes a conocer:

Eventos: Data Activator considera todos los orígenes de datos como una secuencia de eventos, cada uno de los cuales representa una observación sobre el estado de un objeto determinado. Delimitamos una serie de campos/columnas a trabajar.

Triggers: los triggers de Data Activator están diseñados para supervisar los eventos y los datos, e iniciar acciones especificadas una vez que se cumplen determinadas condiciones dentro de estos eventos.

Propiedades: las propiedades de Data Activator son beneficiosas para reutilizar la lógica de un trigger en varios triggers.

Objetos: los objetos de Data Activator pueden ser elementos tangibles, como vehículos o paquetes, o conceptos abstractos, como campañas publicitarias o sesiones de usuario. Al crear un elemento Reflex, se modela el objeto mediante la conexión de uno o varios flujos de eventos. El objeto es el contenedor de los tres anteriores.

Si quisieramos probar el funcionamiento realtime, podemos crear un reflejo y usar el sample de datos de microsoft para entender los items anteriores. En este artículo, vamos a concentrarnos en un trigger para reporte de Power Bi. Para ello el proceso no es igual, no creamos un reflejo directamente sino indirectamente. Basta con abrir un informe en capacidad Fabric. Y clickear en sus opciones:

Todas las visualizaciones tendría el ícono para programar alerta "set alert".

Nos avisa que Data Activator esta en preview y nos da una previa del reflejo a crear y su trigger que luego veremos en más detalle:

Creamos una alerta que avise si el día anterior se vendieron menos de 100 unidades de un producto específico. De esta forma estaríamos alerta si un producto baja el rendimiento.

Esto creará el nuevo item. Abrámoslo. Podemos apreciar que hay dos pestañas, una de data y otra de diseño. La pestaña de data nos muestra los campos involucrados para operar. La de diseño los objetos creados (que contienen propiedades, eventos y triggers)

Pestaña Data:

Pestaña Design:

Aqui nos crea por defecto un evento de los items asociados, en este caso quantity por producto. Tiene una pantalla de muestra de 5 productos y comportamient, la regla/condición del trigger que podemos ver sea menor a 100 y por ultimo la acción (enviar mensaje a teams).

Si quisieramos mejorar la experiencia del mensaje a enviar, podríamos crear una propiedad. Las propiedades nos ayudan a reutilizar medidas preparadas como en este caso cantidad por producto tanto en otro trigger como en mensajes. De momento las alertas de más de una dimensión no son soportadas (10 de Marzo 2024), pero en un futuro lo harán y podríamos usar esos campos para mandar mejores mensajes.

De ese modo nuestra alerta por teams se vería así:

Nos brinda el mensaje esperado y el/los productos en cuestión.

Asi es como puede configurar alertas de power bi con la nueva función Activator. Poco a poco seguramente mejorará con nuevas opciones. Hoy ya nos brinda delimitar reglas por una dimensión como este caso producto, tal vez mañana permita más aún.

Recuerden que puede conectarse a EventStream y desencadenar operaciones como llamar un flujo de Power Automate además del clásico correo o teams. La creatividad queda libre para cada quien.

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[trashmammal-7]

Odo WIP cause I need to start posting more art on here

[tanadrin]

fish-out-of-water character in science fiction to whom humanity is deeply alien, but who does not continually get themselves into awkward social situations because they looked up Human Ettiquette For Dummies, they learned about basic human social dynamics including how humans bond socially, and it is immediately obvious to them after five second of introspection how a highly social tool-using species like humans would benefit from spending a lot of time building social ties

[x23innocencelost]

Reblog for sample size, etc.

This is by individual issue count, not the number of series or trades or what have you.

[canadiancryptid]

Hey so just saw this on Twitter and figured there are some people who would like to know @infinitytraincrew is apparently getting deleted tonight so if you wanna archive it do it now

[azira7]

YURI!!!! THE CROWD GOES WILDDD

[chainsawctopus]

The princess slayyyyyed

Drew all the different princesses @savedatateam got so far on their first stream! I am once again asking you to go support them right now they're great guys please I swear

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Prompt: Jason and Jazz are the reincarnation of Thomas and Martha Wayne

Either bruce or alfred realize it when they walk in on jason and jazz dancing in one of the lesser-used rooms in the manor to one of martha's favorite vinyl records.

[unlikebee]

refining my book Murderbot design! Obviously, it needs lots of pockets in its line of work, and plenty more screentime. I think this would be early mb, first and second book as it starts to find the ways it feels most comfortable. I also feel like a tiny, scruffy ponytail for when its hair starts to grow out is just a necessity. It's a busy secunit-- it doesn't have time to deal with that mullet!

I tried to include the tech aspects in a few spots, like the arm that it removes in one of the later books and reattaches, built in earrings for its feed, and some facial joining points. All its feeds face towards itself-- but a career in printmaking has prepared me for writing all the backwards text!

No justification for the blue hair, it just felt right (: Anyone else headcannon mb with a non-natural hair colour or other specific elements?

[freakdroids]

Data winking at Picard and scanning him w his eyes. last gif is a slowed down version so u can more easily see it

[david-talks-sw]

I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.

He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.

"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."

My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.

But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.

In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...

This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.

But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?

"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."

And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.

Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...

... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...

... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).

I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.

Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.

Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.

We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:

Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.

Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.

There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.

But the problem I encounter is that:

Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.

We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.

And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.

Edit: Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.

So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.

[icewindandboringhorror]

indeed my exact process once every 8 months or so

[eddis-not-eeddis]

I got an hourly planner and instead of planning out my day, I just write in it if I’ve done something that I’m proud of or that I enjoy, and it’s amazing how much I’ve gotten done lately and how much fun I’ve had now that I’m trying to impress myself.