Creating Or Editing An On Schedule App

When you add an On schedule app, you create an instance of that app that is unique to your Organization. Each On schedule app performs one or more integration tasks.

Prerequisites

  1. Make sure an agent is available. Select Environment & Tools from the menu.
  2. Under Environment Settings, select Agents to display the Agents page.
  3. The Agents page displays your available agents.
  4. If there are no Agents available, determine whether you want to:
  5. Create your Connections. Configuring Connections to one or more datastores can be done as you add or edit an app, but it may be easier to create them first. If you were invited into this Organization, the Connections may already exist. For information about creating Connections, see Adding a Connection.

Configure The App

Accessing The App Details Page

  1. Select Apps from the menu to open the apps list.
  2. Select an existing app from the Apps List to edit it or select the Create/Import button. On the Create app dialog select All app types > Create a Scheduled app. Then click the Create scheduled app button to display the App Details page for the new app.

For more information on choosing an app type, see the following:

Creating/Editing An App

Note: Changes to apps are saved when you move the cursor off of the modified field.
  1. At the top of the app, edit the generated name from New_Connect_App to your own name for this app.
    Note: The name of this app must be unique within this Organization.
  2. In the Tags field, add or delete tags used to group and filter apps.
    • To add a new tag, click Tags and type the name of the tag you want to add. If this is a new tag, click the Create new "tag name" option. If this is an existing tag, click the tag name.
    • To delete a tag, click the x next to the tag name.
    • To save changes to tags, click outside the Tags dialog.
  3. In the Application Description section, add a brief description for this app. This field is optional.
  4. From the Agent drop-down, select an agent from the list.
    Note: The Connect cloud agent is disabled if the app contains Connections that do not support the Connect cloud agent.
  5. The app is enabled by default. To disable the app, select the Disable App link on the Flows tab. See Disabled Apps for additional information.
  6. On the Flows tab, configure one or more flows to accomplish your integration goals.
    • To create or edit a flow, follow the instructions in Defining An Integration Flow.
    • Source and target Connections are contained within the flows. If you are editing the app, you can change the Connections in your flows to access different data. See Editing Connections.
  7. On the Connections tab, view a list of the Connections used by the flows in this app. On this tab you can: 
    • Select an existing Connection and edit its settings. See the Table of Contents in the Connectors help for Connector specific information.
    • Choose Reset Metadata from the menu to update Connection metadata.
  8. Select the Schedule tab.
  9. Select the method that triggers the app to run. Options include:
    • On-Demand — App is run manually.
    • Scheduled — App is run at a scheduled intervals. See Scheduling An App.
  10. In the Execution History tab, view the status of the executions of this app. See App Peek Execution History. Displays up to 45 days of Execution History for this app.
Note: With a TIBCO Cloud™ Integration - Connect trial subscription, your Organization supports up to 3 apps.

Related Topics

TIBCO Cloud™ Integration - Connect Apps