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Externalizing Processor Options

There are two stages to externalizing processor options:

• Select the processor options to externalize
• Provide meaningful names for the externalized options at the process level.

Note: The second stage is optional, but recommended to ensure the externalized option has a meaningful name.

Select processor options to externalize

1. In the Canvas area, double-click on the required processor. The Processor Configuration dialog is displayed.
2. Select the Options tab.
3. Click the Show Externalized Options button on the bottom-right of the dialog.
4. Each option on the tab has a check box and a drop-down field next to it. Check the boxes of the options to be externalized. Select New to create a new externalized option, or to share a previously externalized option such that its value is used to drive a number of processor option settings in the process, use the drop-down box to select an existing externalized option.
5. Click OK to save, or Cancel to abandon.

Rename externalized options

Externalized processor options are used (overridden in jobs) at the process level.

Each externalized processor option for the process has a default name. Use the following procedure to assign a different name:

1. Either:
• right-click on the relevant processor, and select Externalize; or
• select the Canvas and click on the toolbar.

The Process Externalization dialog is displayed. This displays all the externalized options available in the process.

2. Ensure the Enable Externalization check box is selected.
3. Click on the required option in the top area of the dialog. The bottom area shows the processor(s) that the option is linked to, and allows you to link directly to the processor(s) in the Canvas.
4. Click Rename.
5. Enter the new name in the Rename dialog.
6. Click OK to save, or Cancel to abandon.

Note: The name you give to the externalized option is the name that must be used when overriding the option value, either in a Run Profile, or from the command line, using the syntax for such override options. For a full guide to this syntax, complete with examples of overriding externalized option values, see the instructions in the template.properties file that is provided in the config/runprofiles directory of your OEDQ installation.