Step 3 - Select a Destination Function

What is a Destination Function?

The Destination Function decides what data should be posted to the Destination system and when.

Configure your Destination Function

Through the Control Panel you can easily access the page "Destinations" in the left side column. When entering the Destination page you will see a list of all Public Destinations, as well as your Private ones.

If you want to configure a Destination, you can do so by clicking the "Create Destination" button. From the Create Destination page you should fill in the below fields.

• Title - Give the Destination function a title that is relative to the Destination, for example: "FTP POST Orders" or "GBP Orders to FTP"

For this example, choose FTP POST Orders Test

• System - this is your Destination system (e.g. the System you are posting data to)

For this example, choose FTP

• Function - this is your Destination function (e.g. the configuration of what information you will post to the system)

For this example, choose PostFiles

• Key - This is a dropdown list of the keys you have added to HighCohesion. Please select the key for the Destination system as enabled in Step 1

• Trigger - The Trigger defines the logic for when the Destination function should be triggered. You can choose from three pre-defined options:

  • Aggregate (e.g. the Destination is triggered when all events for a specific Job has been completed). This is well suited for the cases when you want all Events to get posted to your Destination system as one file

  • Real time (e.g. the Destination is triggered when the first Event for a specific Job has been completed). This is well used for Streams with Sources run on webhooks, to directly POST a file to the destination System.

  • Scheduled (e.g. the Destination is triggered based on your defined Cron Schedule). This is rarely used, but could be used for Destination systems that require that Files are POSTED at a specific time.

For this example, please select Aggregate

• Settings - this is necessary to provide additional details such as the the FTP location paths, access rights etc. All of the settings added to Destination configurations should be entered in TOML format, this makes the settings easy to read, edit and update. For a guide on TOML format please see the link: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml.

The below settings states that the destination system format is XML, defines the output file naming convention, instructs the system of where to look for files on the remote location and indicates the root XML element. For this use case, please add the remote_path to your test FTP location. For more FTP configurations, see here

formatting = "xml"
filename_format = "orders_##DATETIMEFORMAT__Ymd_H-i-s__##.xml"
remote_path = ""
root_attribute = "version=1.0"
root_element = "root_order"