An extension adapter manages much of the housekeeping for data sources attached to it, and determines what is available to set or change in the configuration interface for those data sources. The Configuration tab is where you make these choices.

Many aspects of the user interface operate in the same way for most or all of the configuration activities you can perform. These are explained in the introductory sections:

Because you configure the same fields for properties on the first several Configuration subtabs, these subtabs are grouped and described together in Configure Simple Properties.

Properties on the other tabs are configured in somewhat different ways: