Administration
Setting up Cognos SSO
Question Is it possible to SSO into Cognos from Digital Hive? Answer Yes, it is possible, but it requires our Digital Hive jar files and some changes to all of the IBM Cognos Content Managers in your environment. IBM Cognos Analytics Configuration ...
How to disable download options for Cognos artifacts
Question Is there a way to disable the ability to download the different file types of Cognos report content? Answer Yes, here are the steps to disable the download options: Click your avatar (initials on the top right) Click Manage Digital Hive ...
Running IBM Cognos Analytics Reports
Question How do I run Cognos Reports? Answer The default setting for IBM Cognos Analytics reports is to display the saved report. Here are the steps to execute a report instead of showing the saved report: Click your avatar Select Manage Digital Hive ...
Connecting Digital Hive to GoodData
Question We would like to integrate our GoodData content into the Digital Hive platform. Is this possible? Answer As of the Digital Hive 2024.3 release, it is possible to connect Digital Hive to the GoodData platform. Before GoodData content can be ...
Connecting Digital Hive to Qlik Cloud
Question We would like to integrate our Qlik Cloud content into the Digital Hive platform. Is this possible? Answer As of the Digital Hive 2024.2 release, it is possible to connect Digital Hive to the Qlik Cloud platform. Before Qlik Cloud content ...
Custom Sort Order for Digital Hive Folders
Overview As of the 2024.3 Digital Hive release, it is now possible to create a custom sort order for contents within a Digital Hive folder. There are certain scenarios where alphabetical or time based sorting is not sufficient and a custom sort order ...
Are Tableau Custom Views Supported in Digital Hive
Question Our organization heavily utilizes Custom Views within Tableau. Are these Custom Views accessible and supported through the Digital Hive platform? Answer Tableau Custom Views can be accessed from within Digital Hive. Based on the properties ...
How to Modify the Text and Appearance of Tooltips
Question Is it possible to modify the text of a button tooltip within Digital Hive? Answer Hive authors have the ability to modify both the text of a tooltip as well as the size of the tooltip text. Each widget, such as buttons, have their own custom ...
Using IBM Cognos Analytics APIkey Authentication
Overview As of the Digital Hive 2024.2 release, it is possible to leverage API keys generated in IBM Cognos Analytics, to secure and access Cognos content. This method of authentication should be considered when traditional Single Sign On options ...
Discoverable Search Feature Overview
Overview By default, the only content that appears for a user in Digital Hive is the content that the user would see if they logged into the BI system(s) as themselves. In other words, Digital Hive will not expose content to a user that they are not ...
Search Management Interface
Getting to the Search Management Interface 1. Click the user avatar and select Manage Digital Hive 2. Within the Control Center expand Content then click Search 3. Here you will find the new search and indexing features to better manage indices ...
Enhancing the User Experience with Visual Cues
Question Is there a way within Digital Hive to highlight certain types of content so that users can easily identify relevant objects? For example, highlighting content that has recently been added, that has been certified, or that have been tagged ...
Custom Field Data Types
Question We're looking to create some custom fields and would like to know the differences between the various Data types. Answer There are multiple data types that enable administrators to create metadata schemas that can range from simple to very ...
Unable to Explore Digital Hive Content
Question When using the Explore Content interface to browse the Digital Hive content, a message stating "Something went wrong" and a Try Again button is displayed How do I resolve this? Answer This issue is usually a result of Elasticsearch being ...
Which Tableau APIs does Digital Hive require?
Question In our environment, all API calls made to Tableau are routed through Mulesoft. What are the specific APIs required for Digital Hive to work with Tableau? Answer Here is a current list, as of release 2024.1, of the Tableau APIs that Digital ...
Suppress the Content Ratings and Comments
Question In our Digital Hive environment, it would be desirable to disable the ratings and the commentary. Is there a way to suppress these features from the UI? Answer It is possible to suppress the ratings and comments, but this would have to be ...
Updating Your License Key
Question How do you update the Digital HIve license key? Answer Launch Digital Hive Click your Avatar (initials on the top right) Select Manage Digital Hive Click License Click Update License Enter the License information (Licensee and Key) that ...
Content has Disappeared from the Digital Hive Interface
Question It appears that all of the content has disappeared from the Digital Hive interface. When an Administrator accesses the Explore Content tool from their avatar, a blank screen is returned. How do we restore the view of the content? Answer This ...
Digital Hive Logging
Question Is there any logging available to help troubleshoot issues? Answer Digital Hive has several types of log files available for troubleshooting issues. Here are the various Digital Hive log files and what they contain. Theia Log This is the ...
Importing SSL Certificates
Question How do we import SSL certificates into Digital Hive? Answer There are two different scenarios that a certificate may need to be imported: When you want to secure Digital Hive's SSL listener. For example, this is needed if you don't want to ...
Connecting to Qlik View
Question How do we connect Digital Hive to Qlik View? Answer As a Digital Hive administrator, connecting to Qlik View can be accomplished via the following steps: Install the QlikView NTFS Auth Application In your extracted Digital Hive installation ...
Connecting to Qlik Sense
Question How do we connect Digital Hive to Qlik Sense? Answer As a Digital Hive administrator, connecting to Qlik Sense can be accomplished via the following steps: Create a Qlik Sense Certificate Launch Qlik Management Console (QMC) Under CONFIGURE ...
Backing up the Digital Hive Content Store
Question Is there a way to backup the Digital Hive content store? Answer Digital Hive uses PostgreSQL as the application content store. As part of the Digital Hive platform, a daily process executes that creates an archive of the entire content ...
How to 'Enable' Connector Content Within Digital Hive
Question Once the connector parameters for a content system have been successfully applied, how do I select the desired content from the source to appear within Digital Hive? Answer As part of the connector creation process, once the required ...
Connecting PowerBI to Digital Hive Audit Data
Question The Digital Hive Control Center doesn't seem to provide any reports or views around usage of the platform. Is there a way to create reports to show metrics like the amount of reports executed by platform, the number of searches being made, ...
Adding Custom Fonts to Digital Hive
Question The corporate branding guidelines for our company mandates a specific font be used for all material. Examining the available fonts within Digital Hive, the required font is not listed. Is there a way to add the custom font so that it's ...
Customizing the Login Page
Question We would like to brand Digital Hive to seem like it is an extension of our existing applications. Is it possible to customize the appearance of the login page? Answer As a Digital Hive Administrator, It is possible to define the appearance ...
What do the Digital Hive Capabilities Control in the Product?
Question Digital Hive provides the ability to create new roles that contain various capabilities. What do each of the capabilities control? Answer Here is a listing of the Digital Hive capabilities. Please note that these are subject to change in ...
Digital Hive Architecture Overview
Overview Digital Hive is a lightweight, web-based application that is both easy to install as well as to maintain and manage. Other than the Microsoft C++ redistributable (https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=40784), there are no ...
Digital Hive Auditing Explained
Question The Digital Hive Control Center doesn't seem to provide any reports or views around usage of the platform. Is there a way to create reports to show metrics like the amount of reports executed by platform, the number of searches being made, ...
Creating a Custom Color Scheme
Question Within Digital Hive, we can manually change color values, or use predefined color schemes, but is it possible to create a color scheme that can be saved and reused in the future? Answer Custom color screens can be created by Digital Hive ...
Getting Prompted for IBM Cognos Analytics Credentials
Question When viewing a Digital Hive page that contains an IBM Cognos Analytics visualization, the IBM Cognos Analytics login screen appears instead of the visualization. My IBM Cognos Analytics connector credentials are persisted as part of my ...
How to Upload an Image file into Digital Hive as an Administrator
Question There are images that we would like to use during the creation of our Hives. As an Administrator, is there a way to upload the files to Digital Hive so that we don't have to connect to the File System or load the images into a Content ...
Requesting a New License Key
Question Our Digital Hive license key has expired. How do we obtain a new Digital Hive license key? Answer If a Digital Hive key is required for either a new installation, or the current key is about to expire, please email the Customer Success team ...