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 Cesar Cordero

 Cloud Services, Custom Software Development, Dell Boomi, Enterprise & System Integration, IT Strategy, T-Connect

Dell Boomi provides the concept and implementation of extensions to allow developers and s to have distinct values for di erent environments without having to use multiple connectors of the same type. As an example in a given scenario where a Dell Boomi Process uses a disk connector to read a le but the le location changes from environment to environment. EG:

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1. Test Server le folder location: C:\TEST\Inbound

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2. QA Server le folder location: C:\QA\Inbound 3. Production Server le folder location: C:\PROD\Inbound

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If there is no good understanding of extensions by the implementation team they may have a separate connector for each environment and deploy each connection thereby consuming a license in your Dell Boomi AtomSphere. This will most likely look something like this:

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Enterprise & System Integration Government Solutions Healthcare IT Strategy To be very clear: this approach does work but will consume three connections/licenses and does not leverage the best practice of the usage of extensions for variable runtime-set environment

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The disk speci c le folder con gurations would be contained in each

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Disk Connection as shown below here:

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  When using the best practices approach for Dell Boomi the disk connections should only be created once generically and might look something like this in the Atom’s artifact explorer:

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The point being there only needs to be one disk Connection that is con gurable in the process as “Extended” with con guration values assigned at the time of deployment or at any time after deployment during run time. Let’s create a very simple process that uses our Disk1 Connector and demonstrate how to con gure the same disk connector for three environments. The process might look something like this:

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expertise, best practices, and guidance to deliver a successful integration solution. We hope this blog will help you in your use of AtomSphere. If you have any questions or comments, or need assistance with any Integrations or development questions, please us at [email protected]. Thank you, The Tallan Integrations Team

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