SnapLogic Best Practices:Tips and Tricks in 30 Minutes
Praneal NarayanRich Dill
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Agenda
Today’s Topic: Nested Pipelines– What is a nested or sub-pipeline?
– Why use them?
– Creating and using them
– Pipeline examples
ForEach Snap– What is the ForEach Snap?
– What can I use it for?
– How is it different from the Task Execute Snap?
– Pipeline example
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Before We Get Started…..
Documentation
Download the following:– Snaplex
– JSDK
– Snap Packs
– Mac, Linux and Windows Installers
Community Board and Ideas
Don’t forget to use our Developer Community
developer.snaplogic.com
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Nested Pipelines
Provide reusability– A pipeline can be as simple as one Snap or many
– A pipeline can be made up a multiple levels of nested pipelines
Support for guaranteed delivery
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ForEach Snap
Provides the ability to invoke a new pipeline for each incoming document
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A Few Tips
Add GD to the name (or notes) of a Nested pipeline when used for guaranteed delivery
Use functional descriptive names
When building ForEach pipelines, name them 1 of 2, 2 of 2, etc.
Use database tables or JSON documents to control the execution
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Connecting with the SnapLogic Team
@SnapLogic
Facebook/SnapLogic
developer.snaplogic.com
www.snaplogic.com/techtalk
