Publishing Processors

6.9 Publishing Processors

Configured single processors can be published to the Tool Palette for other users to use on data quality projects.

It is particularly useful to publish the following types of processor, as their configuration can easily be used on other data sets:

Match processors (where all configuration is based on Identifiers)
Parse processors (where all configuration is based on mapped attributes)
Processors that have been created in EDQ (where configuration is based on configured inputs)

Published processors appear both in the Tool Palette, for use in processes, and in the Project Browser, so that they can be packaged for import onto other EDQ instances.

Note:

The icon of the processor may be customized before publication. This also allows you to publish processors into new families in the Tool Palette.

To publish a configured processor, use the following procedure:

Right-click on the processor, and select Publish Processor. The following dialog is displayed:
In the Name field, enter a name for the processor as it will appear on the Tool Palette.
If necessary, enter further details in the Description field.
Select the Published processor Type: Template, Reference, or Locked Reference.
Select the Scope: Project (the processor is available in the current project only) or System (the processor is available for use in all projects on the system).
If you want to package the associated Reference Data with this published processor, select the Package Reference Data with processor checkbox.

Note:

Options that externalized on the published processor always require Reference Data to be made available (either in the project or at system level. Options that are not externalized on the published processor can either have their Reference Data supplied with the published processor (the default behavior with this option selected) or can still require Reference Data to be made available. For example, to use a standard system-level Reference Data set.