Creating a Connector

This page walks through the Create New Connector panel, opened with Add on the Connectors screen. A connector publishes one or more consumption (gold / C360) tables to an external system through a saved connection. Before you start, make sure the connection you need already exists under Settings > Connection.

Steps

1. Name the connector. In Basic Information, enter a Connector Name. Allowed characters are alphanumerics, spaces, hyphens, and underscores; it cannot be all digits.

2. Select the target system. Choose one of Message Queue, JDBC Connection (RDS), or Storage (File System). This filters which connections you can pick.

3. Pick the connection. In Connection for <target system>, select a saved connection of that target system. If the list is empty, create the connection first under Settings > Connection.

4. Select source tables. In Select C360 Source Table(s), search and check the consumption tables to publish. These come from the consumption layer (for example Consumption.customer_360).

5. Map each table. Each selected table expands to a config card:

   • Target Name — the name the table takes in the external system. Alphanumerics, hyphens, and underscores only (no spaces). Defaults to the source table name.
   • PII Suppressed — check to exclude columns tagged as PII (personally identifiable information) from what this connector publishes.

   Use Expand All / Collapse All to manage many tables, and the trash icon to drop one.

6. Choose the execution mode. Set Execution Mode to live or batch. For batch, a scheduler appears — build a Schedule Cron expression (see Execution modes).

7. Create. Click Create Connector. It is saved with status Not Deployed and appears in the list.

Caution

Every selected table needs a valid Target Name before the form will submit. Names must match the pattern for alphanumerics, hyphens, and underscores.

Field reference

Field	Required	Notes
Connector Name	Yes	Alphanumerics, spaces, hyphens, underscores; not all digits.
Target System	Yes	Message Queue, JDBC Connection, or Storage.
Connection	Yes	A saved connection of the chosen target system.
Source Table(s)	Yes	One or more consumption tables.
Target Name (per table)	Yes	External-system name; alphanumerics, hyphens, underscores.
PII Suppressed (per table)	No	Excludes PII-tagged columns when checked.
Execution Mode	Yes	live or batch.
Schedule Cron	Batch only	Cron expression from the scheduler.

Editing published tables

To change which consumption tables an existing connector publishes, use the Configure Published Tables dialog from the connector’s actions. It lets you add or remove consumption tables and save without recreating the connector.

After creating

A new connector is Not Deployed. On deploy, its connection secret is synced from GitHub into the data platform (secret sync) and its job is created, moving it to Active.

• Execution modes
• Connectors overview