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What is the Status Component?

The status component essentially is the feedback loop of the Read, Map, Write process that was discussed in the introduction of the wiki.

In the Process Builder Canvas of DBSync, the Status action or process is located in the data flow of the "Execute" action and is located behind the Reader, Map, Writer of the data flow as shown in the screen shot below: Image Removed

To arrive at the screen shot provided above, please review section Creating Process Definitions of the wiki to add a PDL, and to open a process map. After opening the process map, right click on the "Execute" action on the Process Builder Canvas map and select "open dataflow". At this point you should be able to view the "Status" action and access a screen similar to the one in the screen shot presented above. Next follow the instructions given below:

1. Right-click on the Status Component and select 'Properties' to view the details. You can edit, save, delete and close the window.

2. Select the Adapter type from the drop down list. One can view and edit the properties of the specific adapters, such as the Console Adapter.

3. Click on the edit hyperlink to modify the changes of the specific properties of the xml file. The file should map to all the components, if it does not the application will display an error message.

Note: When more information is needed to complete the mapping, the application will display a message such as, “In order to do the mapping the Reader and Writer should be created and Required Adapters for Reader and Writers should be selected”.

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4. You are able to map the source and the target fields in the status edit window and if you want to edit the information further click on the edit hyperlink or if you want to remove the information then click on the del hyperlink next to the filed names in the Maps.

5. Click Save to save the information.

6. Click Delete to delete the status component.

7. Click Close to close the Status window.

"Trigger" is the mechanism to activate/ Extract information from the source system for use in Target system . In DBSync the Trigger section is as shown below, Trigger facilitates the information to be read from the source system through a mechanism called Query Builder.

There are a advanced version of query building mechanism , where complex queries involving across multiple objects are created , result set can also be viewed at run-time making it convenient for the user to change the query as and when. 

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