To create a configuration file for your connector, you need a connector-specific property template as well as the system-supplied standard properties.
You can create a brand-new template for the connector-specific properties of your connector, or you can use an existing file as the template.
This section describes how you create properties in the template, define general characteristics and values for those properties, and specify any dependencies between the properties. Then you save the template and use it as the base for creating a new connector configuration file.
To create a template:
Enter a unique name that identifies the connector, or type of connector, for which this template will be used. You will see this name again when you open the dialog for creating a new configuration file from a template.
The names of all currently available templates are displayed in the Template Name display.
If you do not see any template that displays the connector-specific properties that are used by your connector, you will need to create one. Connector Configurator provides a template named None, containing no property definitions, as a default choice.
When you click Next to select a template, the Properties - Connector-Specific Property Template dialog appears. The dialog has tabs for General characteristics of the defined properties and for Value restrictions. The General display has the following fields:
Use the buttons provided (or right-click within the Edit properties display) to add a new property to the template, to edit or delete an existing property, or to add a child property to an existing property.
A child property is an attribute of another property, the parent property. The parent property can obtain values, or child properties, or both. These property relationships are hierarchical. When you create a configuration file from these properties, Connector Configurator will identify hierarchical property sets with a plus sign in a box at the left of any parent property.
Choose one of these property types: Boolean, String, Integer, or Time.
You can set Standard Flags (IsRequired, IsDeprecated, IsOverridden) or Custom Flags (for Boolean operators) to apply to this property.
After you have made selections for the general characteristics of the property, click the Value tab.
The Value tab enables you to set the maximum length, the maximum multiple values, a default value, or a value range for the property. To do so:
The Value column shows the value that you entered in the Property Value dialog, and any previous values that you created.
The Default Value column allows you to designate any of the values as the default.
The Value Range shows the range that you entered in the Property Value dialog.
After a value has been created and appears in the grid, it can be edited from within the table display. To make a change in an existing value in the table, select an entire row by clicking on the row number. Then right-click in the Value field and click EditValue.
After you made your changes to the General and Value tabs, click Next. The Dependencies dialog appears.
A dependent property is a property that is included in the template and used in the configuration file only if the value of another property meets a specific condition. To designate a property as dependent and to set the condition upon which it depends, do this:
== (equal to)
!= (not equal to)
> (greater than)
< (less than)
>= (greater than or equal to)
<=(less than or equal to)