Temporary Storage connection

Introduction

A Temporary Storage connection is configured using the Temporary Storage connector, establishing access to temporary storage on the agent machine. Once a connection is established, you can configure one or more Temporary Storage activities associated with that connection to be used either as a source to provide data to an operation or script, or as a target to consume data in an operation or script.

Create or edit a Temporary Storage connection

A new Temporary Storage connection is created using the Temporary Storage connector from one of these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design component palette).
• The Global Connections page (see Create a global endpoint in Global Connections).

An existing Temporary Storage connection can be edited from these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design component palette).
• The project pane's Components tab (see Component actions menu in Project pane Components tab).
• The Global Connections page (see Edit a global endpoint in Global Connections).

Configure a Temporary Storage connection

Configuration of a Temporary Storage connection includes these fields:

• Endpoint Name: Enter a name to use to identify the Temporary Storage connection. The name must be unique for each Temporary Storage connection and must not contain forward slashes (/) or colons (:). This name is also used to identify the Temporary Storage endpoint, which refers to both a specific connection and its activities.

• Test: Click to verify the connection with the agent. The temporary storage path and files can be specified later during activity configuration.

• Save Changes: Click to save and close the connection configuration.

• Discard Changes: After making changes to a new or existing configuration, click to close the configuration without saving. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

• Delete: After opening an existing connection configuration, click to permanently delete the connection from the project and close the configuration (see Component dependencies, deletion, and removal). A message asks you to confirm that you want to delete the connection.

Next steps

After a Temporary Storage connection has been created, menu actions for that connection are accessible from the project pane's Components tab. See Connection actions menu for details.

Once configuring a Temporary Storage connection, you can configure one or more Temporary Storage activities associated with that connection to be used either as a source (to provide data within an operation) or as a target (to consume data within an operation), or to be used in a script.

Use the Show dropdown to filter on Endpoints, and then click the Temporary Storage connection block to display activities that are available to be used with a Temporary Storage connection:

For more information, see these activities:

• Read: Reads data from a Temporary Storage endpoint and is intended to be used as a source in an operation or called in a script.
• Write: Writes data to a Temporary Storage endpoint and is intended to be used as a target in an operation or called in a script.