File Manager overview in PeakAI

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File Manager overview

File Manager is a function within Dock that enables you to access files stored in your Peak organization’s data lake.

The interface mirrors what you would see from your data lake admin portal. This makes it easy to view and manage your files without leaving Peak. This article introduces you to its main functions.

File Manager Home screen

To get to File Manager, click Dock > File Manager.

The File Manager Home screen appears:

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Home folders

The Home screen lists the following folders from your data lake:

  • datascience
    Used mainly by data scientists to store processed data or any other intermediate data.
  • mlflow
    Used to store data generated by the Model Management feature.
  • output
  • Used for storing the output data (downloadable insights) from different areas of the platform.
  • uploads
    Contains files directly uploaded to the platform using Ad hoc Upload.
  • These files are typically used for creating feeds.
  • raw
    Staging location for data feeds.
  • adhoc_file_exploration
    The files uploaded for exploration in SQL Explorer are shown here.

What you can do with File Manager

File Manager has a wide range of functions that make it easy to manage files in your data lake directly from the platform.

Navigate and search

Navigating

Each folder has a navigation path at the top of the screen that you can click on to go up through the folder structure.

Searching

To search for files or folders, enter their full or partial name in the search bar.

The search results are limited to the folder that you are searching from.

Manage folders, upload files, and create feeds

Managing folders

Folders can be created and deleted on paths that you have write access to by clicking CREATE FOLDER and by clicking Delete from a folder's action menu.

For more information, see Creating and deleting folders.

Uploading files

Files can be uploaded to and deleted from your organization’s data lake by clicking UPLOAD FILES and by clicking Delete File from a file’s action menu or directly from a file’s Information tab respectively.

Creating file feeds

A file feed can be created from a file’s action menu or directly from a file’s Information tab.

For more information, see Creating a file feed with File Manager.

Filtering

You can filter the contents of a folder by clicking on the filter icon and applying single or multiple filtering criteria.

Any filters that have been applied to the folder are displayed under the folder title.

The following filter options are available:

Type

Filters the files/folder list based on type (for example, CSV, JSON, PDF).

Only file types that are identified by the system will be shown.

Last updated by

Filter by the last tenant user to update a file.

Choose from a list of all of the users on the tenant.

Date Range

Users can choose from the list of date options in the list.

Available options are:

  • Last week
  • Last 15 days
  • Last month

File size

Choose from the following sizes:

  • Less than or equal to 50 KB
  • 50 KB - 1 MB
  • 1 MB - 5 MB
  • Bigger than 5 MB

Action menus

Both folders and files have an action menu located at the end of the row. To access them, click on the dots.

Folder action menu

The folder action menu contains the following options:

  • View folder
  • It navigates inside the folder and lists its contents.
  • Copy path
  • Copies the full data lake file path for the folder.
  • Copy URL
  • Copies the full Peak platform URL for the folder.
  • Delete
  • Permanently delete the folder and all of its contents.

File action menu

The file action menu contains the following options:

  • View
  • Takes you to the View File tab.
  • Create feed
  • Enables you to create a feed for the file.

For more information, see Creating a file feed with File Manager.

  • Copy path
  • Copies the data lake file path for the file.
  • For example,
  • s3://your-datalake/organization/output/segments-customer-segmentation-high-value/19-01-2022-06-45/kpi.csv
  • Copy URL
  • Copies the full Peak platform URL for the file.
  • Download
  • Enables you to download the file to your local machine.
  • Delete
  • Permanently deletes the file.

View file contents and file information

By clicking on a file or using the file action menu, you can preview its contents or see detailed information about it.

The file details are presented in two tabs:

  • View File
  • Information

View File tab

File Manager lets you view samples of files and preview the images.

The following file types are supported:

  • csv
  • xml
  • json
  • txt
  • jpeg
  • jpg
  • png

Currently, the maximum size of a file to preview is 64 KB, for files larger than this, the system will extract and show a sample preview. The maximum size for an image to preview is 5 MB, for images larger than this, you can download the image and view it.

The following file preview formats are available for non-image files from the dropdown (according to the type of file being viewed):

  • Raw
  • Table
  • Code

Raw file format:

Table:

Code:

Image:

Information tab

From here, you can view detailed information about a file and also copy its absolute path.