How to Enable/Disable the Bold ETL Option in Bold BI.

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One of the features of Bold BI is the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) option, which is crucial for data preparation and manipulation. This article will guide you through the steps to enable or disable the ETL option in Bold BI.

Disable the ETL in the Bold BI you can follow the below steps:

You can hide ETL option from menu for all sites by using the custom_ui.json file. Please refer below document to locate this file and update the changes in file.
https://help.boldbi.com/site-administration/user-interface-customization/
To hide ETL option, you need to add JSON node with ShowMenu option as false as shown in image below in the profiles section. And to apply these changes to all sites, you need to add wildcard (*) entry for site name as shown in image
```
  "BoldETL": {
          "ShowMenu": false,
            "Order": 9
          }
```

Enable the ETL in the Bold BI you can follow the below steps:

We can do this in two ways.

You can just change the ShowMenu as “true” in the below node,

 "BoldETL": {
                 "ShowMenu": true,
                   "Order": 9
                 }

You need to revert the changes that you made to disable the ETL in Bold BI.
- Just remove the BoldETL node in the custom_ui.json file
- Remove the (*) in the Name and Profile name