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Welcome to Cleo Clarify v5
Cleo Clarify supports every phase of business integration – building, integrating, and maintaining – in one simplified, streamlined product. An individual may create, test, and deploy integration processes from beginning to end, or Clarify can be used by teams with multiple participants and roles – including business analysts, developers, and IT operations personnel.
Designing Integration Solutions
This set of comprehensive topics describe the available resources, tools, and processes used to transform data as part of an integration solution.
Processing the Data
This set of topics describe how to use Business Processes to sequence and execute the tasks necessary for your integration solution.
Business Processes
A Business Process is an object that performs tasks on data, in a user-defined sequence.
New Business Process Tasks
Several new Business Process tasks have been made available for the latest version of Clarify. Many allow for better looping and control structure operations. The tables below provide details about each Business Process task, its purpose, parameters, and usage. Within each task description, bold text indicates mandatory parameters. All parameters are Input, unless designated as Output.
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Welcome to Cleo Clarify v5
Cleo Clarify supports every phase of business integration – building, integrating, and maintaining – in one simplified, streamlined product. An individual may create, test, and deploy integration processes from beginning to end, or Clarify can be used by teams with multiple participants and roles – including business analysts, developers, and IT operations personnel.
- What's New in the Current Release
  Cleo Clarify v5 introduces several new features. Many of these are closely interconnected, supporting the functions of other features, editors, and resources. For the latest feature descriptions, please refer to the Clarify v5 Release Notes on the Support Portal of Cleo.com.
- Getting Started
  Clarify is a platform-independent business integration middleware that tackles a wide variety of business integration requirements. It supports Business-to-Business, Application, Data, and Cloud integration, with one investment in middleware, tools, and skills.
- Architecture
  Clarify is divided into two components: a design-time environment (Clarify Studio) and a runtime environment (Clarify Server).
- Navigating the Studio
  Learn how the Studio is structured, and get familiar with its user interface.
- Guidelines and Recommendations
  Cleo recommends specific guidelines for creating, managing, testing, and deploying Projects, Packages, and objects.
- Sharing Resources
  Clarify supports options for sharing the same objects between different Projects, and for sharing the same objects and Projects between different users.
- Versioning & Synchronizing Projects
  Clarify provides an interface to the Subversion® version control system, which allows users to share their projects on repositories, where they are stored afterwards.
- Designing Integration Solutions
  This set of comprehensive topics describe the available resources, tools, and processes used to transform data as part of an integration solution.
  - Sending and Receiving the Data
    This set of topics describe how to use objects to input and output data.
  - Defining the Data
    This set of topics describes how to use Schemas to define source and target documents or data.
  - Transforming the Data
    This set of topics describe Rulesets and how to use rules to transform your data.
  - Routing the Data
    This set of topics describe concepts and objects used to identify, process, and route data.
  - Processing the Data
    This set of topics describe how to use Business Processes to sequence and execute the tasks necessary for your integration solution.
    - Business Processes
      A Business Process is an object that performs tasks on data, in a user-defined sequence.
      - Creating Business Processes
        Create a Business Process in Clarify to perform certain tasks on data, based on a defined sequence.
      - Adding and defining tasks
      - Using Fields
      - Sequencing tasks
      - Pass or Fail Columns
      - Using a Business Process within another Business Process
      - Referencing a Business Process from another Business Process
        To pass data from one Business Process to another, reference the second Business Process as a task in the first Business Process.
      - Referencing a Business Process from a Ruleset
        Reference a Business Process in a Ruleset to process data mid-transformation (instead of waiting for an entire transformation to complete).
      - Branching from Business Process to Business Process with a Compare Task
        Make the tasks within a Business Process branch out to another Business Process based on a Compare task.
      - Context Points and Business Process Tasks that work with RDOs
        The ability to manipulate and pass variable parameters between a Business Process and a Ruleset is based on a concept called the Context Point in Clarify.
      - Business Process Tasks
        The tables below provide details about each Business Process task, its purpose, parameters, and usage. Within each task description, bold text indicates mandatory parameters. All parameters are Input, unless designated as Output. Each task uses a newer, user-friendly naming convention. Beside each name, in parenthesis, is the version used in older/legacy Clarify versions. Either one can be used in the filter section of the Business Process editor to search for an action.
      - New Business Process Tasks
        Several new Business Process tasks have been made available for the latest version of Clarify. Many allow for better looping and control structure operations. The tables below provide details about each Business Process task, its purpose, parameters, and usage. Within each task description, bold text indicates mandatory parameters. All parameters are Input, unless designated as Output.
        
        Array
        
        Adapter
        
        Collections
        
        Control Flow
        
        Date
        
        Exit Point
        
        Logging
        
        Math
        
        Messaging
        
        Mime
        
        Miscellaneous
        
        Monitor
        
        Properties
        
        String
        
        Time
        
        Transformation
        
        XML
      - Adding an AbstractTask
        An AbstractTask is an abstract Java class that can be extended to add custom tasks to the Business Process task library.
    - Process Schedules
      A Process Schedule object allows you to execute existing Business Processes at specific times or at regular intervals.
    - Transformation Settings
      Transformation Settings is an object used to define data delimiters and escape character settings for source and target data transformation activity in Clarify. This object is required when working with Business Processes and Rulesets.
  - Wizards and other Tools
    This set of topics describe several Wizards and other tools to assist in the creation and configuration of Project resources.
- Promoting Resources to Servers (deployment)
  Promotion describes the act of moving different resources (mainly objects and Projects) into a server environment that can be used for testing or production-ready integration with external servers. The Studio provides two methods to promote resources – either locally or remotely.
- Integrating Clarify with Other Applications
  This set of topics describe how to configure Clarify to integrate with external applications, programs, and interfaces.
- System Maintenance
  The following topics discuss guidelines, provide recommendations and best practices, and explain available tooling which support good system management and health for your Clarify environments. Topics cover everything from backups and upgrades, to data purging and daily operational maintenance.
- Studio Installation and Configuration
  This set of topics provide installation procedures, system requirements and other configuration details for the Clarify Studio.
- Server Installation and Configuration
  This set of topics provide installation procedures, system requirements and other configuration details for the Clarify Server.

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