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In a Reference Data profile configuration, you can select the tables that should be available for query and editing via the Reference Data Management dashboard, or RESTful interface. For information about these interfaces, see the Reference Data Management Dashboard or RESTful Interface for Reference Data Management.

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To create a new Reference Data profile configuration, click the New Configuration button from the Configuration dialog available from Build View, and then select Reference Data Profile from the menu.

The contents of the menus in the menu bar may change depending on which configuration type has been opened in the currently active tab. The Reference Data profile uses the standard menu items and buttons that are visible for all configurations, and these are described in Common Configuration Buttons.

To open an existing Reference Data profile configuration, click on the configuration in the Configuration Navigator, or right-click on the configuration and then select View Configuration.

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The General tab is displayed by default.

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Setting

Description

Database

This is the database the agent will connect and send data to.

Click the Browse... button to get a list of all the database profiles that are available. For further information see Database Profile. If changes have been made in the selected database, click the Refresh button to retrieve updated db metadata that will be reflected in the table selector when adding entries into the Tables section of the configuration dialog.

The Reference Data profile is supported for use with the following databases:

  • Oracle

and
  • PostgreSQL

databases.
  • MariaDB

Enable Enhanced Logging

When you perform any of the following operations, entries are written to the System Log, and DB Ref event notifications are generated:

  • Commit changes to the database

  • Perform import operations

Select Enable Enhanced Logging to include information about executed SQL statements in the event notifications.

For more information about DB Ref events, see DB Ref Event.

Tables

Configurations of selected tables are listed here.

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Setting

Description

Table

Select a table for the selected database with this table selector.

Read

Select this check box to enable read access to the selected tables. Users of the profile can query and export data.

Write

Select this check box to enable write access to the table data. If Read is also selected, users of the profile can insert, update, delete and import data.

Last Update

Select this check box to enable the Last Update feature. Last Update allows users to specify two columns in the table that will be used to automatically record the username and timestamp of when an entry was updated.

Note

Note!

When creating tables to include the User column and Timestamp column, ensure that these columns are not UNIQUE and does not have any PRIMARY KEY constraints.

The datatype for the User column should be set as VARCHAR and datatype of the Timestamp column should be set as TIMESTAMP.

User Column

This is to specify the name of the User column to be used for the Last Update feature. This column will be updated with the name of the last user to perform an operation on the record. This column can not be edited from Reference Data Management UI

Timestamp Column

This is to specify the name of the Timestamp column to be used for the Last Update feature. This column will be updated with the the timestamp when performing an operation on the record. This column can not be edited from Reference Data Management UI

To Add a Table 

Note

Note!

Reference Data Management does not support tables that contain a column that has both GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY and PRIMARY KEY constraints. Having one or the other constraint in a column in your table will not affect Reference Data Management.

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