Configured single processors can be published to the Tool Palette for other users to use on data quality projects.
To publish a configured processor in a process, right-click on it in the Canvas, select Publish Processor, and give the processor a name as it will appear on the Tool Palette. The processor can be used like any other processor, but with its configuration options set as they have been configured in the process from which it was published.
Note that the icon of the processor may be customized before publication. This also allows you to publish processors into new families in the Tool Palette.
It is particularly useful to publish the following types of processor, as their configuration can easily be used on other data sets:
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 OEDQ instances.
It is possible to attach Online Help before publishing a processor, so that users of it can understand what the processor is intended to do.
The Online Help must be attached as a zip file containing an file named index.htm (or index.html), which will act as the main help page for the published processors. Other html pages, as well as images, may be included in the zip file and embedded in, or linked from, the main help page. This is designed so that a help page can be designed using any HTML editor, saved as an HTML file called index.htm and zipped up with any dependent files.
If a processor has help attached to it, the help can be accessed by the user by selecting the processor and pressing F1. Note that help files for published processors are not integrated with the standard OEDQ Online Help that is shipped with the product, so are not listed in its index and cannot be found by search.
It is possible to publish a collection of published processors with a similar purpose into a family on the Tool Palette. For example, you may create a number of processors for working with a particular type of data and publish them all into their own family.
To do this, you must customize the family icon of each processor before publication, and select the same icon for all the processors you want to publish into the same family. When the processor is published, the family icon is displayed in the Tool Palette, and all processors that have been published and which use that family icon will appear in that family. The family will have the same name as the name given to the family icon.
Oracle ® Enterprise Data Quality Help version 9.0
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