Posts Tagged ‘boomi integration’
Boomi Tips: Debugging Connectors
Have you ever having difficulties to view the raw data that is being sent out or received in Boomi platform? Here are the options that you use to overcome this: Charles Proxy This is a very useful networking traffic capturing tool. You can refer to our previous post to find out more about how…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Process Property in Asynchronous Process Execution
In Boomi, you have two sub-processes that are configured to run asynchronously. If you plan to share the value of the sub-processes in this mode, you will need to be aware of the behaviour of the process property as it is not feasible. For example, in Sub Process 1, you have a Set Properties shape that…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Test Environment and Connection
In recent release, Boomi have improved the environment settings where it now allows you to specify the environment classification: Production and Test. This new improvement comes together with the new type of connector: Test Connector. So, how can these improvements help in the development cycle? In a normal Boomi Atomsphere account,…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Cross Reference Lookup Table
We talked about how convenient you can create a simple lookup table for transformation of your data in our previous post. The simple lookup however is not a component itself and imagine that you have tens of map that require the same lookup, you would have to create multiple times of the same lookup…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Attachment Cache
Boomi has introduced a new feature in the Web Service SOAP framework, called Attachment Cache. This feature allows you to post a SOAP request envelop together with an attachment data in a multipart MIME format. This is often useful if the endpoint application handles the SOAP message data and the attachment data separately. To use…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Simple Lookup
In most scenarios when a lookup is required (transforming a value from source to destination, example code “T” from source is transformed to “True” to destination) the Cross Reference Lookup is being used, a great lookup that provides multiple references that can be reused throughout the process or among processes within the same account. …
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Importing DTD into XML Profile
Boomi allows us to create a new XML profile by importing from a XML Schema. However, it can only support the common XML schema, XSD. So, what to do if you only have DTD schema? One quick solution is to convert the DTD to XSD by using the free conversion tool that is provided by…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Application Response Profile
There is a flag in most of the Boomi connector send operation called “Return Application Error Responses”. If this checkbox is checked, Boomi will return you the Error Document (e.g in XML format – depending on the target application) as a response so that you have additional error handling logic after the send operation. …
Read MoreBoomi Tip: How to Post Form URL Encoded Request
In integration, sometimes I will encounter a situation whereby I need to post a data to an HTTP endpoint as a query string in the URL. However, this will not work correctly if the data string is too long (there is a limit in the length of HTTP request URL). To get around this, I…
Read MoreBoomi Tip: Query Operation in Batch Results
Some connectors (ex. Salesforce, Netsuite, etc.) can be configured to retrieve the data in either per document or in a batch results. ‘Batch Results’ is batching all result documents into a single list document. There is one important note to take to get a successful list document. After you have done with the profile…
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