Using File Adapters - advanced

File Adapters are used in the context of a larger busines process. This business process itself may be part of an even greater business process. In order to maximize flexibility and re-use, Business Processes can be defined one time but re-used many times.

If you have not already created one, see Creating File Adapters. The File Adapter must have a Template associated with it.

If you have not already created one, see Creating Business Processes.

For an in-depth discussion on why and when to use Adapter Templates, please see Using Adapter Templates.

Using Adapter Templates:

  1. Open the Business Process to add the adapter to, and open it.
    Note: If you have not already created one, see Creating Business Processes.
  2. In the Business Process editor, locate the Parameters section and click the green Add button. Under the Name column, type the name of the parameter (File_Adapter for example). Click in the Type column, and select Adapter.
  3. In the Script region, click the green Add button. Click on the "Click to select" task. Browse to and select the task that matches the name of the parameter you specified in the previous step. Now, select the File Adapter Template that you want to use.
  4. On the Properties tab, specify a value for the storageNodes parameter by clicking on "Click to Set Value". If you haven't created a variable yet, you can create one now. Otherwise you can select one from the list of other variables or parameters.
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