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The first time you connect to Zeppelin, you'll land at the main page similar to the below screen capture.
On the left of the page are listed all existing notes. Those notes are stored by default in the $ZEPPELIN_HOME/notebook
folder.
You can filter them by name using the input text form. You can also create a new note, refresh the list of existing notes (in case you manually copy them into the $ZEPPELIN_HOME/notebook
folder) and import a note.
When clicking on Import Note
link, a new dialog open. From there you can import your note from local disk or from a remote location if you provide the URL.
By default, the name of the imported note is the same as the original note but you can override it by providing a new name.
The Notebook
menu proposes almost the same features as the note management section in the home page. From the drop-down menu you can:
This menu gives you access to settings and displays information about Zeppelin. User name is set to anonymous
if you use default shiro configuration. If you want to set up authentification, see Shiro authentication.
You can check Zeppelin version in this menu.
In this menu you can:
This menu allows you to save credentials for data sources which are passed to interpreters.
This menu displays all the Zeppelin configuration that are set in the config file $ZEPPELIN_HOME/conf/zeppelin-site.xml
Each Zeppelin note is composed of 1 .. N paragraphs. The note can be viewed as a paragraph container.
Each paragraph consists of 2 sections: code section
where you put your source code and result section
where you can see the result of the code execution.
On the top-right corner of each paragraph there are some commands to:
code section
result section
To configure the paragraph, just click on the gear icon:
From this dialog, you can (in descending order):
code section
result section
At the top of the note, you can find a toolbar which exposes command buttons as well as configuration, security and display options.
On the far right is displayed the note name, just click on it to reveal the input form and update it.
In the middle of the toolbar you can find the command buttons:
code section
of all paragraphsresult section
of all paragraphsresult section
of all paragraphscode section
and result section
of all paragraphs will be exported. If you have heavy data in the result section
of some paragraphs, it is recommended to clean them before exportingOn the right of the note tool bar you can find configuration icons:
default
, simple
and report