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This article gives an overview of the available blocks in the Alation Cloud Catalog connector in Qlik Application Automation. It will also go over a basic usecase creating a datasource and a table linked to it using this connector.
More information on this connector can be found here: Using the Alation Cloud Catalog connctor
This connector consists of:
There are also a few blocks available for managing metadata and jobs, for example, to trigger or see details of a job. You can use the Raw API blocks in order to configure other endpoints that are not covered by default.
For authenticating, you will need to provide your username, password, and specify your Alation subdomain.
Let's now go over a basic example of how to create a datasource and a table linked to that datasource using the Alation Cloud Catalog connector:
The information in this article is provided as-is and to be used at own discretion. Depending on tool(s) used, customization(s), and/or other factors ongoing support on the solution below may not be provided by Qlik Support.
Nice to see this article,
Can you add the field in connection details like domain name
as of it is hard coded with InstanceName.alationcatalog.com
Please enter the name of your instance. For example - 'mycompany' incase of 'mycompany.alationcatalog.com'.
Alation cloud domain is alationcloud.com. so would be like customername.alationcloud.com
That will make available this for most customers.
Thanks,
Suraj
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All the best,
Sonja