I'm building a dashboard in Data Studio and want to add a 'button' like feature that basically calls/runs a python function that downloads some content locally(on the client machine). I have the python function almost ready.
The question I have is where do I host this function so that it is callable from Data Studio?
Ideally, I wanted to create a Cloud function that would host the python function and get triggered when the button is clicked. This would work till this point but, will not download content locally. What options do I have to accomplish this?
Currently it is not possible to trigger Cloud Function or something similar from the Data Studio Front end, especially when you are intending to download content locally.
The only thing I can think of is, you can create a custom connector which will call the Cloud Function (via URL trigger). Then use the connector to create a data source and attach that data source to a table or chart. That way, every time that page (with the table/chart) is refreshed, the connector will call the Cloud Function and retrieve the associated data.
A function can be triggered by HTTP, so you can make it publicly available and just drop a link to it in a dashboard.
Just add a gray square around this link and make it look like a button. You may want to check the box to open the URL in a new tab, so your dashboard is not closed when the link is clicked.
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I've done some analysis using Pandas on a csv file and have created a number of graphs using matplotlib and plotly.
I'm trying to get these graphs in a html page so my team can see them on a dashboard.
I know it's possible to download the image and embed into html, however, the csv file I performed my analysis on will be constantly updated i.e. I need a way of include the graphs on a html page which auto refreshes.
Is this possible?
I think it would be possible and check pyscrpit
https://pyscript.net/
where you can use python in html
https://github.com/pyscript/pyscript/blob/main/docs/tutorials/getting-started.md
here are some tutorials to get and idea of what I am talking about and to start
Then you can host the html page anywhere you like and they will see when you update it
Voila or Panel to make a dashboard is another way to go. That needs an active Python kernel at this time. (That is as opposed to the pyscript / webassembly route. JupyterLite currently works in WASM and Voila in WASM is in development.) Examining demonstrations available at the Voila Gallery will give you a sense of how it can work. All those example demos are served via MyBinder. And you can use that too, if your code and data can be public. If it cannot be public, you'd need to host a server that only your team can access.
JupyterLite would also be possible if you don't mind your team being able to see the code cells and things that compose your Jupyter notebook stepping through the analysis. That would not require an active Python kernel server-side because it is based on WebAssembly that would run inside the client machine, like PyScript. So all you would need to do was a have a server that can serve static files. That's a lower bar than Voila that would run on the server. How to get started deploying JupyterLite is here.
I would checkout out Dash or Plotly, here you can add generation of the graphs in a callback for isntace. Which would update them when the .csv updates. Good luck!
I am working on application where I am giving a functionality to user where they can signin from dropbox by using my application but when I am trying to get the file from Dropbox I am unable to do it. When user choose the desired file from dropbox and click on choose and then nothing happen. Can anyone please help out either is it possible to do it or not? If yes, how can we do it? I am at beginner level. Please help me out and explain the whole process to do it in detail.
Are you using public Dropbox files?
Then you just need to fetch the item by URL and download it. If this happens in a browser tool, you'll need JavaScript and not Python to download it.
Or you leave out JS and just use Python to render an HTML page where a button is for a Dropbox file and clicking the button triggers a download of the file. That is a generic HTML task you can search for.
If you need access to sign in Dropbox and view private files, consider using a Python library built around Dropbox.
See the Python Dropbox guide. Are you using a library like that? Please share as your question was vague.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/python#
Also please share an explanation of what your logic is or a small code snippet. I can't see what you are doing yet so I don't know where you are missing something or making a mistake.
From the screenshot, I see you're using the Dropbox Chooser. That's a pre-built way to let your end-users select files from their Dropbox accounts and give them to your app.
Make sure you implement the success and cancel callback methods as documented there for the Chooser.
In the success callback, you'll get the information for the selected file(s). That occurs in JavaScript in the browser though, so if you need that on your server, you'll need to write some JavaScript to send that up to your server, e.g., via an AJAX call or a form or whatever means you use in your app.
I would like to create a Jupiter notebook extension with a custom request handler. My goal is to have a link, like localhost:8888/NotebookCreatorExtension?data={"cells": [...], ...}, and jupyterhub would create a notebook in the user's root directory with the content written in the data parameter (the data is basically the json of the notebook that I'm trying to load onto the server).
I tried creating a PUT request from the application that was generating the link and contents of the notebook and it would open up in Jupiterhub but the problem was I needed a token in which I used mine, but I want this to work for all users in the server and generating a token is not the way I want to go.
I have the code for generating the link with the contents of a Jupyter notebook. Just need to figure out how to create an request handler extension or if it's even possible to do what I want to do.
You will have to implement a custom content manager to modify the way notebooks are created. Refer to https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extending/contents.html#writing-a-custom-contentsmanager for how to writing a custom content manager.
Instead if you meant adding a new API for a custom behaviour and not modifying existing content APIs, you may refer https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extending/handlers.html on how to write one.
Let me provide a little background.
An organization i am volunteering for delivers meals to people who are unable to come pick them up during the holidays.
They currently have a SQL Server DB that stores the information of all their clients along with the meal information for each year.
Currently a Java desktop application connects to the SQL Server DB and allows several functions to happen.
i.e. Add a client, add meals, remove clients, print delivery sheets.
I am hoping to use python Flask to rewrite the application as a web based application. The one function i am interested in at the moment is the print delivery sheets function.
The way this works is there is a setting for the current year. When you click the print deliveries for year button it will batch print a document for each customer onto an 8.5" x 11.5" paper. The sheet will be split in two with the same exact information on each side. This information includes the customer name, address, number of meals and so forth.
What i am wondering is how/what would be the best way to setup this template so that i could batch print it using python. I was thinking of creating an html template for the page but i am not sure how that would work.
Again i need to pass in every customer within that year into the template and batch print to 8.5" by 11.5" sheet.
What i am asking is.....
How could i create a template for the print that i can pass every customer two.
How would i print that template for every customer in a batch manner for every customer.
I was hoping to do this all in python if possible.
Thank you for your time and help.
If you are already deploying this as a web app, it will probably be easier to design and generate a pdf. You can use an html to pdf converter, which there are several of on PyPI, or there are plenty of resources online, such as:
How to convert webpage into PDF by using Python
https://www.smallsurething.com/how-to-generate-pdf-reports-with-jinja2-and-pyqt/
Once you have found a way to generate PDFs, you can then just use them like any other PDF, and either have the user download them or print them from the browser (this may require a little bit of Javascript, but this shouldn't be that hard since it should pretty much just be a window.open call.
For instance, you can add a button
<button onclick="getPDF()">Download PDF</button>
Which will then call a function called getPDF() which you define, which finds a way to generate the pdf.
function getPDF() {
// Find the uri for the pdf by some method
var urlToPdf = getUrlToPdf();
// Open PDF in new window
window.open(urlToPdf, "_blank");
}
Note Since you are using Flask, you can include the URL for the pdf in the source for the page, even the Javascript using the {{ }} syntax. Then the pdfs are only generated when someone requests that route.
This way you will not have to worry about connecting to a printer yourself at all, just use the browser to handle those kinds of tasks.
I tried web.seeother("link"), but this does not open it in a new tab. Now I can generate a link with a _blank tag, but then the user has to click on the link separately that is separate button for generating the link and another button to follow that link. I want to perform both with a single click. A server side method to do this would be best.
I am using the web.py framework.
As the document says web.seeother() is used for redirecting a user to another page. So a more clear way for asking your question is: "how to make web.seeother() open a link in a new tab"?
As I have observed the documents, There is no way to do that on server-side.
Not a web.py issue. Cannot be done from server-side by any python or non-python framework, must be done in the Client.
From the client, you can set target="_blank" in the HTML, or use javascript with something like window.open(url). Javascript will allow you to set size and position of second window.