Chapter 5 Advanced Topics This chapter explains advanced topics. The advanced features help you to define a TIBCO Hawk session to monitor the adapter, use variable substitution to override global variables that are predefined in the project, set encoding options before running the adapter so that it can handle files that use different encodings, synchronize LDAP servers, configure the repository for binary attribute support, acknowledge and publish messages, add a user with a password to Active Directory. Finally, some migration issues are presented. Topics • Defining a TIBCO Hawk Session • Using Global Variables • Setting Encoding Options • LDAP Server Synchronization • Configuring the Repository for Binary Attribute Support • Message Acknowledgement • Publishing Messages • Updating Entries in the LDAP Server • Adding a User Account with a Password into Microsoft Active Directory Server • Changing the LDAP Server Connection Parameters • Migrating a Project