Publishing a Flow

To publish a data flow, follow these steps:

Drag and drop the Publish node from the operations palette into the canvas.
1. Drag the Publish node onto the last output node of the data flow. By simply having this publish node in the data flow diagram, the flow is now published.

 

Publishing a flow creates a virtual schema in a user-specific location under the system folder /services/databases/users named like <domain>_<user>. “/services/databases/users” is a system provisioned virtual database and is meant to be used by TDV instances/clusters supporting self-service, data provisioning use cases. Specifically, it allows individual users, such as analysts, to publish data flows, defined within TDV Web UI, in the form of data endpoints that can be consumed by external reporting, visualization or data science tools of their choice.

To see a list of the endpoints, click on the Publish node. A Publish Configuration window displays below the canvas and has the following tabs:

Publish tab: This tab displays the Default Publish Location (non-editable) and an optional editable Description field.

Endpoints tab: The endpoints tab displays a list of client locations where the published flow is available for consumption. This list includes the jdbc, odbc, ado.net and odata endpoints.