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The "Manage Data Connections" tool is fantastic to save credentials alongside the connection without having to worry when you save the workflow that you've embedded a password.
Imagine if - there were a similar utility to handle credentials/environment variables.
Example Entry Tableau:
Alias | Tableau Prod |
Description | Tableau Production Server |
UserID | JPhillips |
Password | ********* |
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Then when configuring a tool you could put in something like [Tableau Prod].[Password] and it would read in the value.
Or maybe for Sharepoint:
Alias | TeamSP |
Description | Team sharepoint location |
UserID | JPhillips |
Password | ********* |
URL | http://sharepoint.com/myteam |
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Or perhaps for a team file location:
Alias | TeamFiles |
Description | Root directory for team files |
Path | \\server.net\myteam\filesgohere |
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Any of these values could be referenced in tool configurations, formulas, macro inputs by specifying the Alias and field.
Currently the InDB tools require to select a DSN that is defined on your computer.
This makes any workflow which uses a DSN incredibly painful to deploy to the server, since the DSN needs to be created on every worker node and for a large server environment this can mean creating DSN entries on 6+ worker nodes in prod plus prod server plus dev/UAT environment plus dev/UAT worker nodes.
Could we please change the InDB tools to default to DSN-less connections, where the connection persists the connection details in-line so that it can deploy to the server without a DSN setup (since all connection details are contained within the connection string)?
Thank you
Sean
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