Edit Component Dialog
The Edit component dialog allows you to edit component attributes in each component. You can access the dialog by double-clicking the component that has been pasted in the Graph Editor pane.
This dialog consists of two tabs: Properties tab and Ports tab.
Properties tab presents an overview of component attributes that can be set.
Ports tab presents an overview of both input and output ports and their metadata.
Properties Tab
In the Properties dialog, all attributes of the components are divided into 5 groups: Basic, Advanced, Deprecated, Visual and Common.
Only the last two groups (Visual and Common) can be set in all of them.
The others groups (Basic, Advanced, and Deprecated) differ in different components.
However, some of them may be common for most of them or, at least, for some category of components (Readers, Writers, Transformers, Joiners, or Others).
Basic. These are the basic attributes of the components. The components differ by them. They can be either required, or optional.
May be specific for an individual component, for a category of components, or for most of the components.
Required. Required attributes are marked by warning sign. Some of them can be expressed in two or more ways, two or more attributes can serve to the same purpose.
Optional. They are displayed without any warning sign.
Advanced. These attributes serve to more complicated (advanced) settings of the components. They differ in different components.
May be specific for an individual component, for a category of components, or for most of the components.
Deprecated. These attributes were used in older releases of CloudConnect Designer and they still remain here and can be used even now. However, we suggest you do not use them unless necessary.
May be specific for an individual component, for a category of components, or for most of the components.
Visual. These are the attributes that can be seen in the graph.
These attributes are common for all components.
Component name. Component name is a label visible on each component. It should signify what the component should do. You can set it in the Edit component dialog or by double-clicking the component and replacing the default component name.
See Component Name for more detailed information.
Description. You can write some description in this attribute. It will be displayed as a hint when the cursor appears on the component. It can describe what this instance of the component will do.
Common.
Also these attributes are common for all components.
ID. ID identifies the component among all other components of the same type. If you check Generate component ID from its name in → → and your component is called e.g. 'Write employees to XML', then it automatically gets this ID: 'WRITE_EMPLOYEES_TO_XML'. While the option is checked, the ID changes every time you rename the component.
Component type. This describes the type of the component. By adding a number to this component type, you can get a component ID. We will not describe it in more detail.
Specification. This is the description of what this component type can do. It cannot be changed. We will not describe it in more detail.
Phase. This is an integer number of the phase to which the component belongs. All components with the same phase number run in parallel. And all phase numbers follow each other. Each phase starts after the previous one has terminated successfully, otherwise, data parsing stops.
See Phases for more detailed description.
Enabled. This attribute can serve to specify whether the component should be enabled, disabled or whether it should run in a passThrough mode. This can also be set in the Properties tab or in the context menu (except the passThrough mode).
See Enable/Disable Component for a more detailed description.
Pass Through Input port. If the component runs in the passTrough mode, you should specify which input port should receive the data records and which output port should send the data records out. This attribute serves to select the input port from the combo list of all input ports.
See PassThrough Mode for more detailed description.
Pass Through Output port. If the component runs in the passTrough mode, you should specify which input port should receive the data records and which output port should send the data records out. This attribute serves to select the output port from the combo list of all output ports.
See PassThrough Mode for more detailed description.
Ports Tab
In this tab, you can see the list of all ports of the component. You can expand any of the two items (Input ports, Output ports) and view the metadata assigned to each of these ports.
This tab is common for all components.
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