DSS Macros¶

Macros are predefined actions that allow you to automate a variety of tasks, like:

• Maintenance and diagnostic tasks
• Specific connectivity tasks for import of data
• Generation of various reports, either about your data or DSS

Macros can either be:

• Run manually, from a Project’s “Macros” screen.
• Run automatically from a scenario step
• Made available for running to dashboard users by adding them on a dashboard.

Macros can be:

• Provided as part of DSS
• In a plugin
• Developed by you

For example, the following macros are provided as part of DSS:

• Generate an audit report of which connections are used
• List and mass-delete datasets by tag filters
• Clear internal DSS databases
• Clear old DSS job logs

Macros are designed to make repetitive tasks or tasks that would require to write code each time easier. Other examples could be:

• Creating a project, adding a set of groups to it and performing various other settings (if you need to create a large number of projects)
• Importing a folder full of files and creating one dataset for each

Some macros can be used by all DSS users (like data-import-related macros) or only by administrators (like clearing internal databases)

You can write your own macros in Python. For more information, see Writing DSS macros