Externalizing connection property values for a configurable connection type

In addition to the preconfigured connection types in intsrvrsources.xml, you can specify the connection properties for other connection types in the files <Actuate11_HOME>\BRDPro\eclipse\plugins\com.actuate.ais.embeddable_<version>\Config\aisconfigfiles\etc\data_integration\datasources.xml and $AC_SERVER_HOME/etc/data_integration/datasources.xml, for example:

<ConnectionType Name="My_Database">

  <ConnectionParams>

    <ConnectionParam Name="database"

      Display="Database"

      Type="string"

      ValueIsCaseSensitive="false" />

    <ConnectionParam Name="username"

      Display="User name"

      Type="string" />

    <ConnectionParam Name="password"

      Display="Password"

      Type="masked" />

  </ConnectionParams>

</ConnectionType>

To externalize the connection property values for a configurable connection type, add a ConnectOptions element to the data source connection configuration file’s Runtime element, for example:

<Runtime>

…

  <ConnectOptions Type="My_Database_Connection">

    <Property PropName="database">My_Database</Property>

    <Property PropName="username">My_Database_User</Property>

    <Property PropName="password">My_Database_Password</Property>

  </ConnectOptions>

…

</Runtime>

The property names listed in the ConnectOptions element must match the connection parameter names listed in the ConnectionParams element in datasources.xml. The match is case-sensitive.

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