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Note: Defaults are not used unless the configuration is sent to the Workflow service.
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OL Connect Proxy Address: Enter the machine name or IP Address where the OL Connect
Server resides.
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Port: Enter the port to use to communicate with the OL Connect Server. Default: 9340
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User name: Enter the user name expected by the OL Connect Server.
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Password: Enter the password expected by the OL Connect Server for the above user name.
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Update Data Records
The Update Data Records action task updates records in the OL Connect Database using values from
the current Metadata or from JSON.
Each of the OLConnect Content Creation tasks can do the same, if the Update Records from Metadata
option is enabled for that task.
The Update Data Records task can be useful when data needs to be updated multiple times before
actually generating content, for instance when Postal Address Cleansing and Sorting is a two-pass pro-
cess.
Input
The current Job File is not used by this task. In order to update values in the Connect database, the
task requires that the current Metadata contains record IDs, or that the given JSON contains a JSON
Record Data List (see: "Types of JSON in Workflow" on page77 and ).
Processing
The records, of which the IDs are found in the source data, are updated either from the Metadata or
from JSON.
Note: Date strings conforming to ISO 8601 are parsed and stored in the OL Connect database as
Unix timestamps, i.e. the total number of seconds from the starting time of UTC (Universal Time,
Coordinated) to the current time (with zero time zone offset). For instance: 1675950179.
Output
The Job File is not changed by this task.
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