General Connector Properties

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Connector Components

General Connector Properties Connector-Specific Properties Filter Transformer General Connector Properties Connector-Specific Properties Filter Transformer Parent topic: About Channels and Connectors

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Destination Table

This table shows you all currently configured destinations for your channel. You can see at a glance the type of each destination, whether it is enabled, what chain it belongs to, and more. Column Description Status Indicates whether the destination is enabled or disabled. Only enabled destinations process messages. A channel must have at least one destination enabled. Destination Double-click this cell to edit the name of the destination. Note that while a destination may be renamed, its metadata ID will remain the same. Id The metadata ID that uniquely identifies this destination within the current channel. Connector Type The type of destination connector. To change this, select the destination from the table and choose a new type from the drop-down menu directly below the table. Chain The chain this destination connector belongs to. The first destination in the table is automatically placed into chain #1. To start a new chain, select a subsequent destination from the table, and unch

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Message Metadata

Metadata typically refers to important information about the message, but not the actual message content. Message Metadata includes: Message ID: Every message for any given channel has a unique integer ID, the Message ID. The Message ID is used to organize data in the message browser and join connector messages together. Connector Metadata ID: Each connector has its own ID, referred to as the connector metadata ID. The source connector always has a metadata ID of zero (0). Destination connector metadata IDs start at one (1) and increment for each new destination you add to the channel. Status: Each connector message has a status, which tells the channel the current processing state. For example, the status could be RECEIVED, which means the raw data has been committed to the database, but the message is in the middle of being processed. It could be QUEUED, which may mean it is sitting in a queue waiting to be processed, or one or more attempts have been made to process the message, but

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Channel Components

General Channel Properties Source Connector Destination Connectors Channel Scripts General Channel Properties Source Connector Destination Connectors Channel Scripts Parent topic: About Channels and Connectors

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Destination Connectors

Every channel has at least one destination connector that sends data out to an external system. Destination connectors are configured on the Destinations Tab within the Edit Channel View. In addition to the standard Connector Components, destination connectors include: An Enabled flag that determines whether the destination is currently being used. A channel must have at least one destination enabled at any given time. A Wait for previous destination setting that determines what chain a destination connector belongs to. (For additional information, see Destination Chains. ) A Response Transformer. This is like a regular transformer, except it has its own response inbound data type and response outbound data type, and does the job of modifying the response that an external system returned to a destination connector. It also allows you to decide when to queue / force-error a message. See Response Transformers for additional information. Parent topic: Channel Components

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Edit Channel View

The Edit Channel view is where channels are configured. General settings and other properties not specific to a connector are configured on the Summary Tab. Connector-specific settings are configured on the Source and Destinations tabs. Channel-level scripts not specific to connectors are configured on the Scripts Tab. Navigation Summary Tab The Summary tab is where general settings not specifically tied to connectors are configured. Source Tab The Source tab is where the source connector is configured. This includes the source connector properties, and the source filter / transformer scripts. Destinations Tab You can configure destination connectors on the Destinations tab. Scripts Tab You can configure channel-level scripts using the Scripts tab. Edit Channel Tasks Parent topic: Edit Views

General Connector Properties

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