From 388cde9d3038950386db7dbbddc4831c0afa7e2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Erik=20F=C3=B8lstad?= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:44:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme --- README.md | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 81623ee..f1d39bc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,20 +10,16 @@ Bigtable viewer is an application that lets you query the contents of Google Big Download and run the [installer](https://github.com/erikmafo/BigtableViewer/releases/latest) for your operating system -Set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path of a file containing the -credentials for a service account with access to your Bigtable tables. - ## Basic Usage -When the application has started, click on the 'Add instance' button +To use different credentials than GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, click on 'File'->'Set credentials'. -Enter the project and instance id of a Bigtable instance. The application should display all the tables of the instance. +To add a Bigtable instance click on 'Add instance', enter the project and instance id and click 'Ok'. +The application should display all the tables of the instance. Click on the table that you would like to query. A default query, selecting the first 1000 rows of the selected table, should appear in the query box. Click 'Execute' to execute the query. -To use different credentials than GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, click on 'File'->'Set credentials' - ## Table schema Bigtable viewer works best with tables where the data in each column corresponds to a standard data type. By clicking