This topic describes the overall layout of the DataStudio page and the features that are related to workflows and nodes for data development. This helps you understand and get started with DataStudio with ease.
Go to the DataStudio page
Log on to the DataWorks console. In the top navigation bar, select the desired region. Then, choose in the left-side navigation pane. On the page that appears, select the desired workspace from the drop-down list and click Go to DataStudio.
On the DataStudio page, you can create workflows and different types of nodes for data development based on your business requirements. For more information, see Create a workflow and Create a node.
The features for different data development operations vary. The following sections in this topic describe these features:
Overall layout of the DataStudio page: describes the overall layout of the DataStudio page.
Features related to workflows: describes the features related to workflows on the DataStudio page.
Shortcut menu related to workflows: describes the shortcut menu related to workflows on the DataStudio page.
Features related to nodes: describes the features related to nodes on the DataStudio page.
Shortcut menu related to nodes: describes the shortcut menu related to nodes on the DataStudio page.
Overall layout of the DataStudio page
The following figure shows the overall layout of the DataStudio page.
Area | Description |
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2 | In this area, you can click the
Note If a specific functional icon is not displayed in the left-side navigation pane, you can click the |
3 | Shortcuts to other services:
Common features of DataWorks services: Note DataWorks services share common features. The following descriptions introduce the common features that are provided by DataWorks on the DataStudio page.
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4 | After you click the Settings icon in Area 4, you can perform system configurations on the following tabs of the Settings page:
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5 | This area displays the shortcut keys that are commonly used in the DataStudio editor. For more information, see Editor shortcuts. |
icon to switch to another workspace in the current region. 
icon to go to another DataWorks service, such as Data Integration or Operation Center. 
icon in the lower-left corner to go back to the homepage of the DataWorks console. 
icon in Area 4 to add the functional icon to the left-side navigation pane on the Settings page. For more information, see 
): You can click this icon to obtain the latest updates of DataWorks at the earliest opportunity. 
): You can click this icon to obtain information about how to use a specific feature based on your business requirements. 
): You can click this icon to go to the Workspace page. On this page, you can view the basic information, scheduling properties, security settings, and associated data sources and open source clusters. For more information, see Features related to workflows
By default, the Scheduled Workflow pane appears after you go to the DataStudio page. On the Scheduled Workflow pane, you must create a workflow before you can organize your data development operations. For more information about how to create a workflow, see Create a workflow. The following figure shows the features related to workflows.
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Note Before you perform data development operations in a new workspace, you must create a workflow and a node in the workflow. For more information about how to create a workflow, see Create a workflow. |
3 | In this area, you can use a directory tree to manage nodes, tables, resources, and functions in each workflow.
The icon before the name of a node indicates the status of the node:
The last time when the node is edited is displayed after the node name. You can double-click the name of a workflow to go to the configuration tab of the workflow, as shown in Area 5 to Area 8. On this tab, you can perform data development operations. |
4 | Resource Group Orchestration ( |
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6 | Tools on the canvas:
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7 | Tabs in the right-side navigation pane:
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8 | Tools in the toolbar and tools above the configuration tab:
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icon to show all solutions or workflows in a workspace. 
): After you modify a workflow or solution, you can click this icon to refresh the Scheduled Workflow pane. 
): You can click this icon to find the node whose configuration tab is displayed on the right side of the current page. 
): You can click this icon to search for a code snippet by using keywords. This way, you can find all nodes that contain the code snippet in the Scheduled Workflow, Manually Triggered Workflows, Ad Hoc Query, and Recycle Bin panes and view the details of the code snippet in a centralized manner. You can also use this feature to identify the node that causes changes to a table. 
): You can click this icon to modify the configurations of multiple tables, resources, or functions at a time. The configurations include the owner, compute engine instance, resource group for scheduling, rerun properties, scheduling type, scheduling cycle, and scheduling timeout period. 
): You can click this icon to upload the data in an on-premises file to a table in DataWorks. You can import data in an on-premises file only to a MaxCompute table. 
): You can click Create to quickly create a workflow, node, table, resource, or function. 
icon to search for the node. 
icon to specify the types of nodes that you want to search. After you specify a node type, the directory tree displays only nodes of the specified type in the current workspace. 
icon: indicates that the node of the current version is not committed. You can click this icon to commit the node. 
icon: indicates that the node is not deployed. You can click this icon to deploy the node. 
): You can click this icon to change the resource groups for scheduling used by multiple nodes in a workflow during data development. If multiple resource groups for scheduling are used in your workspace, you can use this feature to change the resource groups for scheduling for the nodes in the workspace based on your business requirements. This helps you improve resource utilization. After you change the resource groups for scheduling used by multiple nodes, you must deploy the nodes to the production environment so that the change can take effect in the production environment. 
): You can click this icon to switch the layout of the canvas to Vertical, Horizontal, or Grid. 
): You can click this icon to select nodes to form a node group and perform operations on the node group to manage selected nodes. 
): After you modify a workflow, you can click this icon to refresh the workflow. 
): You can click this icon to horizontally align the nodes on the canvas. 
): You can click this icon to adapt the current workflow layout to the size of the canvas. 
): You can click this icon to center nodes on the canvas. 
): You can click this icon to change the scale of the directed acyclic graph (DAG) of nodes to 100%. 
): You can click this icon to zoom in on the nodes in the current workflow. 
): You can click this icon to zoom out on the nodes in the current workflow. 
): You can click this icon and enter a keyword in the search box to search for a node whose name contains the keyword. 
): You can click this icon to view the current workflow in full screen. 
): You can click this icon to show or hide the engine information of each node. 
): You can click this icon to commit one or more updated nodes in the current workflow to the Deploy page. 
): You can click this con to run all nodes in the current workflow. 
): If the current workflow is running, you can click this icon to stop the nodes from running in the workflow. 
): You can click this icon to go to the Deploy page and view the nodes to be deployed in the current workflow. Then, you can deploy nodes based on your business requirements. 
): You can click this icon to go to Operation Center in the production environment to view the O&M details of nodes in the current workflow. 
icon to view all configuration tabs that are open from the drop-down list. 
icon to close one or more configuration tabs. Shortcut menu related to workflows
You can move the pointer over a workflow and right-click the name of the workflow. The following figure shows the shortcut menu that appears, and the following table describes the features supported by the shortcut menu.
Feature | Description |
Create Node | This feature allows you to quickly create nodes of different types. When you create a node, the system displays the node types that are recently used. If you click one of the node types, the system configures the Engine Instance and Node Type parameters based on the information about the node that was last used of this type. You can create a node of a type that was recently used by using this method. |
Create Table | This feature allows you to quickly create tables of different types. |
Create Resource | This feature allows you to quickly create resources of different compute engines. Note You can use this feature to create resources of only the MaxCompute, CDH, and EMR compute engines. |
Create Function | This feature allows you to quickly create functions of different compute engines. Note You can use this feature to create functions of only the MaxCompute, CDH, and EMR compute engines. |
Board | This feature navigates you to the canvas of a workflow. |
Change | This feature allows you to modify the name, owner, and description of a workflow. |
Delete | This feature allows you to delete the current workflow. Note If you perform this operation, all objects in the workflow are deleted. Proceed with caution. The following options are available to cope with situations where an object cannot be deleted:
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This feature allows you to modify the configurations of multiple nodes, resources, or functions at a time. For example, you can modify the owners, compute engine instances, and scheduling properties of multiple objects at a time. This feature also allows you to commit and deploy multiple modified objects to the production environment at a time. |
Features related to nodes
After you create a workflow, you can create different types of nodes for data development based on your requirements. For more information, see Overview. Different types of nodes provide similar features. This section describes the features that are provided by DataWorks on the configuration tab of an ODPS SQL node.
Area | Description |
1 | Node development-related features in the top toolbar:
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2 | Properties tab:
Lineage tab: This tab displays the dependencies and auto-captured lineage between the current node and other nodes. Versions tab: A version is generated each time a node is committed and deployed. On this tab, you can view the historical versions and information about each version of the node. The information includes the user that committed the node, the time when the node was committed, change type, status, and remarks. The following descriptions provide the different states of a node version:
Code Structure tab: This tab uses SQL operators to display the code structure of the node. |
3 | SQL editor: You can write SQL statements in the editor based on your business requirements.
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4 | Features in the upper-right corner:
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): You can click this icon to save the code and configurations of the current node. 
): You can click this icon to save the current code as an ad hoc query. Then, you can view the ad hoc query in the Ad Hoc Query pane. For more information, see 
): You can click this icon to commit the current node. 
): You can click this icon to commit the current node and allow other users to modify the code of the node. 
): If you are not the owner of the node but you want to modify the node, click this icon. 
): You can click this icon to run the code of the current node. Values need to be assigned to the variables in the SQL statements only once. If you modify the code, the variables in the code still use the initial values that you assign. 
): You can click this icon to run the code of the current node based on the configured parameters. Each time you click the Run with Parameters icon, you must assign values to variables in SQL statements. DataWorks obtains the initial values when you click the icon. After you assign values to custom parameters, DataWorks replaces the initial values with the values assigned to the custom parameters. 
): You can click this icon to stop the node that is running. 
): You can click this icon to refresh the configuration tab of the current node and return to the node configuration tab that is last saved. 
): You can click this icon to test the code of the current node in the development environment. Smoke testing in the development environment allows you to simulate the value replacement of scheduling parameters in the production environment. After you select a data timestamp, DataWorks replaces the values in the specified data timestamp with the values that you specified. This feature checks the result of value replacement for scheduling parameters. 
): You can click this icon to view the operation logs of a node that runs in the development environment. 
): You can click this icon to go to Operation Center in the development environment and perform O&M operations. For more information, see 
): You can click this icon to sort the code of the current node. This prevents the code in a single line from being excessively long. 
): You can click the icon to share the current node with other users. 
icon to return to the first line of the SQL editor. 
icon to view the SQL editor in full screen. 
icon to quickly run a code snippet to test whether the code snippet is correctly written. For more information, see Shortcut menu related to nodes
You can move the pointer over a node and right-click the name of the node. The following figure shows the shortcut menu that appears, and the following table describes the features supported by the shortcut menu.
Feature | Description |
Rename | This feature allows you to change the name of the node. |
Add to Favorites | This feature allows you to add the node to favorites. After you add the node to favorites, you can click My Favorites in the upper-right corner of the Scheduled Workflow pane to view the node. If you want to remove the node from favorites, right-click the node name and select Remove from Favorites. |
Move | This feature allows you to move the node to another workflow. |
Clone | This feature allows you to clone the node. The new node is of the same type and has the same owner and resource properties as the original node. Note The new node has a name that is different from that of the original node. |
This feature allows you to view the historical versions and information about each version of the node. The information includes the user that committed the node, the time when the node was committed, change type, status, and remarks. | |
This feature navigates you to Operation Center so that you can view information about the node. If the node is committed to both the development and production environments, you can select View in Operation Center (Production Environment) or View in Operation Center (Development Environment). | |
This feature allows you to commit the code of the node for review. A node that is committed by a developer must pass the code review before the node can be deployed. | |
Delete | This feature allows you to delete the node and the dependency configurations of its ancestor and descendant nodes. After you click Delete to delete a node that has been deployed to the production environment, you must go to the Create Deploy Task page, create a deployment package for the node, and then deploy the node. This way, the node is deleted from the production environment. For more information, see Undeploy nodes. |