Integration Definition is used to define entities for which you will be integrating. This could be anything from an EDI Trading Partner to a third-party CRM package.
The screen is deceptively simple, in that all you enter is an ID and a description for the Integration. However, this ID is used throughout the system to help identify all the other aspects of the integration - Data Source Names and Export Specifications, etc.
You may optionally specify name-value-pairs for the integration. These can be any free-form data values that you care to associate to an integration. For example, consider an environment where you exchange EDI transactions between several trading partners. By defining a PARTNER value pair in each of your EDI integrations, you could easily write your integration to use this value without having to write a custom screen to store and modify it.
KT_INTEGRATION/Integration ID
| Integration ID |
Enter the name for your integration entity. If it is an EDI trading partner, it could be the name of the company. Or if it is a third party application, it could be the name of the software. In any case, the name should be easily identifiable as being that integration entity. |
| Description |
Enter a complete description for your integration entity, something to further describe the entity and distinguish it from other entities. |
| Property |
Enter the free-form name of this line item's name-value-pair. |
| Value |
Enter the free-form value of this line item's name-value-pair. When writing your custom integration, you can access this value using the "INT" namespace substitution tag. |