Creating an Application Target Activity

Adeptia Suite enables you to transfer data from any source location to any target location. Once you have fetched the data (by creating a source activity) and defined the file format for the source data or the target data (by creating a schema), you will be required to create a target activity. A Target Activity allows you to identify specific data that you can create and the means to deliver it.
The Application Target activity provides the ability to specify a cloud location as a target activity.

This feature is available in:

Steps to create an Application Target Activity

1. On the Adeptia Suite homepage, click the Develop tab.

2. Go to Services > Target and then click Application.The Manage Application Target screen is displayed (see Figure 51).

   

   Figure 51: Manage Application Target

3. Click the Create New link. The New Application Target screen is displayed.

4. Select the required type of application from the dropdown list and then click the Next button (see Figure 52).

   
   Figure 52: New Application Target

5. Enter the name and description of the new Application Target in the textboxes Name and Description respectively.

    

   Figure 53: New Application Target

6. Click the Add Account button to include your target application account in the dropdown list.
7. Enter a name for your application account in the textbox. Your application account will appear in the list with this particular name.

8. Click the Continue button (see Figure 54).

   

   Figure 54: Add Account

9. Enter your credentials and click the Sign-in button (see Figure 55).

   

   Figure 55: Dropbox Login

10. Click the Allow button to grant access for your account (see Figure 56).
    

    
    Figure 56: Grant Access

    • You may use the same application account in multiple activities, however, adding your account is required only for the first time. Once you add it, the next time you can simply choose your account from the Application Account dropdown list, without entering your credentials or allowing access every time.
    • If you do not already have an application account, after clicking Continue button, you may click the Create an account link to register for the same (see Figure 55).
    • To edit or delete your existing Application Accounts, please refer the Managing Application Accounts section.

11. You may click the Test button to verify a successful connection with your Application Account.

    This feature helps you to avoid the failure of this activity while executing the process flow. To test this activity, select an application account and click Test. If the Application Account specified in this activity exists, the test will be successful, otherwise it will give an error.

12. Click the Browse button of the Folder field to choose the folder location within your application account where you want to send data (see Figure 57).

    

    Figure 57: Select Folder

13. Click the Submit button.
14. Enter the name of the target file in the textbox File Name.
15. If you want to append date and time stamp in the target file name, then select the date and time stamp from the dropdown list Time Stamp.

16. Click Advanced Properties to expand the hierarchy. All items in Advance Properties are displayed.

    To learn about Advanced Properties refer to Changing Advanced Properties section.

17. Click the Save button.