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Using Repository Metadata - Job Aid

This document explains the use of built-in and repository metadata in Talend Studio for component configuration. It covers the creation and reuse of various types of metadata, including file and database properties, and outlines key steps for managing metadata in the repository. Additionally, it provides tips on using generic schemas and best practices for updating metadata effectively.

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Using Repository Metadata - Job Aid

This document explains the use of built-in and repository metadata in Talend Studio for component configuration. It covers the creation and reuse of various types of metadata, including file and database properties, and outlines key steps for managing metadata in the repository. Additionally, it provides tips on using generic schemas and best practices for updating metadata effectively.

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Using repository metadata

Overview
This module introduced the concept of built-in and repository properties and metadata. You learned how to create various types of metadata and use them for
component configuration. It focused on file metadata, database metadata, and generic metadata.

What is metadata?
Metadata is a set of shared properties that you can reuse to configure components and Jobs in the same project.

Examples of metadata:

• Database connection settings


• Table schemas
• File properties
• File schemas
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• Cloud storage connection settings

Key steps
In Talend Studio, metadata is created and stored in the repository, and you can reuse metadata across Jobs.

1 Create the metadata in the Repository, in the Metadata folder.


This folder lists all available metadata types.

• Right-click the correct metadata type and create new metadata.


• Enter a name, purpose, and description.
• Configure the properties stored in the metadata.

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2 When configuring components in the Designer, you can configure some
parameters, such as database credentials and data schemas, using
Built-In and Repository properties:
• Built-In: Properties are manually configured at the component level
• Repository: Properties are inherited from metadata in the Repository

You can use metadata in specific Job settings.


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Tips
Generic schemas and metadata update features offer flexibility.

Generic schemas
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You can reuse metadata from one file component in another in the same
way that you can reuse database connection metadata in different
database components. In contrast, you can reuse generic metadata in
components of different types (for example, both file and database).

Generic schemas are created when configuring a schema in the Component


view by clicking the Save icon.

Generic schemas are stored in Repository > Metadata > Generic Schemas.

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Metadata updating

When propagating changes, you must select the components to update.

The Update Detection window lists components used in Jobs in a project


that are configured using the updated metadata.

You can still cut the link between a component and metadata to isolate
the component from the update; the property type is then defined as Built-
In.

Before updating metadata, you can run an impact analysis to list all
components linked to it.
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Best practices
• If you must regularly update metadata, consider the option of duplicating it in the Repository. That way, you have two available versions.
• You can also use context variables in the metadata definition. Component settings are then updated according to the selected context.

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