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Creating the Disconnected Application Configuration File

The disconnected application configuration file defines a disconnected application and provides the information so that the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager and Siebel Analytics Web can download that application. It names all the Disconnected Analytics elements required to use Siebel Disconnected Analytics.

The configuration file consists of XML tags and their respective attributes. To create and maintain the disconnected configuration file, you need to understand the basic concepts of XML.

Use the following guidelines when you create your disconnected application configuration file:

• The base name of the file must exactly match the name of the disconnected application, and the suffix of the file must be XML. In the example of the retail application described in Creating and Testing Tables and Indexes in the SQL Anywhere Database, the disconnected application configuration file would have the name Retail.xml.
• The file may contain non-ASCII characters. When the file contains non-ASCII character, the file must be saved in UTF-8 format. If you save in another format, Siebel Analytics Web will encounter parsing errors when reading the file.
• The file must reside in the disconnected application directory. For the retail application example, the directory would be D:\SiebelAnalyticsData\Disconnected\Retail. For a description of disconnected directories, see About the Disconnected Directory Structure.

For a description of XML tags (and their associated attributes) that may appear in a disconnected application configuration file, see Disconnected Analytics Configuration File Reference.