Dimension Adapter editor

The Dimension Adapter editor contains a unique name for this dimension adapter.

The Dimension Adapter editor contains the following tabs:

General

Option Description

Direction

Input Adapter

Required. Must be set to input.

Output Adapter

Required. Must be set to output.

Note: Output dimension adapters are used for diagnostic purposes.

Format

Input Adapter

Required. One of the following:

  • XML - Internal: Recommended (unless you are importing taxonomies from a third-party tool).
  • Binary
  • XML - Externally managed: Used when importing dimensions created in a third-party tool. See "Working with an Externally Managed Taxonomy" in the Endeca Forge Guide for details.
  • Stratify: Used when importing dimensions created with the Stratify taxonomy creation tools. See "Classifying Documents with Stratify" in the Endeca Forge Guide for details.

Output Adapter

Required. Must be XML.

URL

Input Adapter

Required. Location of the input file.

Output Adapter

Required. Location to which the dimension data is saved.

Require data

Input Adapter

Optional. If checked, this field generates an error if the URL does not exist or is empty.

Output Adapter

Not used.

Compression level

Input Adapter

Optional. Indicates to Forge that it must decompress data from this source. The compression level slider setting is ignored.

Output Adapter

Sets the level of compression to be performed on the dimension data when its written to disk. To save on the amount of disk space used, check Custom compression level and slide the bar to Endeca's recommended value of 7.
Note: Compressed data consumes less disk space but takes longer to read and write.

Sources

Required for output adapters. A choice of the dimension adapters and dimension servers in the project.

Note: Generally, only output adapters use dimension sources. For example, you can have a pipeline where an input dimension adapter reads dimension data from a source, and then passes that data to an output dimension adapter that saves it to disk.

Transformer

The Transformer tab allows a dimension adapter to transform external dimension hierarchies, described in XML format into Endeca records XML format. To support these situations, an XSLT transformation can be applied to the source data to convert it into Endeca Records XML, which the Data Foundry can read.

The Transformer tab has the following options:

Option Description

Type

Must be XSLT.

URL

Location of the stylesheet to use.

Comment

Optional. Provides a way to associate comments with a pipeline component.