9 Externalizing Configuration Settings

It is possible to expose a number of configuration settings that are initially configured using the Director application such that they can be overridden at runtime, either by users of the EDQ Server Console user application, or by external applications that call EDQ jobs using its Command Line Interface.

This allows users of third-party applications that are integrated with EDQ to change job parameters to meet their requirements. For example, users might use a standard EDQ job on several different source files, specifying the input file name as an option at runtime, along with a Run Label, used to store results separately for each run of the job.

Job phases are automatically externalized - that is, the Director user does not need to configure anything to allow phases to be enabled or disabled at runtime, using a Run Profile.

The other points at which options can be externalized are below. Click on each point for further information:

• Externalizing Processor Options

• Externalizing Match Processors

• Externalizing Jobs

• Externalizing Snapshots (Server-side only)

• Externalizing External Tasks

• Externalizing Exports (Server-side only)