Create and Edit Environment
The following steps are used for creating an environment in Fabric:
- Creating the environment in the Fabric Studio using the Environments window.
- Populating the connection details of the interfaces via the selected environment.
- Overriding Globals at any Shared, Reference or LU level via the dedicated tab in the selected environment view.
- Deploying all environments to server.
Step 1 - Creating the Environment
Go to Project Tree > Shared Objects and double click Environments to open the Environments window.
In the Environments List grid, do the following:
Enter a meaningful name for the environment in the Name field.
(Optional) In the Comments field, add a description of the environment.
(Optional) In the Fabric URL field, select the server from the predefined list in the Server Configuration tab in the User Preferences window.
The selected Fabric node is used to encrypt the passwords of all interfaces related to the given environment and to run the test connection. If the node is not selected, Fabric uses the local test connection and previous encryption algorithm.
Click Re-Key to use the most updated encryption mechanism and the latest master key to encrypt the passwords of the interfaces.
Click here for more information about Fabric security hardening.
Go to Project Tree > Shared Objects > Environments > Environments to open the window.
Click Create Environment to start the environment creation.
- Enter a meaningful name for the environment in the Name field.
- (Optional) In the Description field, add a description of the environment.
The following activities can be done on each environment:
Click the Delete
icon to delete the environment.Click the Active
icon to disable or enable the environment.Click the Test All Connections button to test the connections of all interfaces under this environment. Once the test connection is completed, the results (success or failure icon) are displayed next to each interface name:
Step 2 - Defining Interface Settings per Environment
Once Name in the Environments List grid is clicked, all DB and non-DB interfaces in the project are copied to the Selected Environment grid and displayed in the tabs. Each interface type is displayed in a separate tab. For example, if the project has DB, SMTP, Kafka and HTTP interfaces, each type is displayed in a separate tab.
By default, all interfaces are enabled. However each interface can be disabled if it is not applicable for the environment.
Select the interface and enable or disable it for the environment by either:
- Clicking the Enabled column checkbox.
- Right clicking the row and clicking Set Selected Rows as Enabled or Set Selected Rows as Disabled. Hold the Ctrl key to select multiple rows.
Populate the relevant fields of each active interface in the Selected Environment grid: Server, User, Password, etc. If the project has several interface types, go through the tabs and populate all mandatory fields.
- Note that when the password is updated, the Fabric Studio re-encrypts it.
Once an environment is added (upper part of the window), all DB and non-DB interfaces in the project appear at the bottom left area of the window. You can go over them and populate their connection details, such as Host and Port.
By default, all interfaces are enabled. However each interface can be disabled if it is not applicable for the environment. This can be done by clicking the Active toggle in the interface.
Step 3 - Overriding Globals per Environment
In addition to the interfaces that are automatically copied to the created environment, Globals can also be overridden per environment via the Globals tab.
The Globals tab grid has the following columns:
To edit the Global variable value, type in the new value. The new value becomes bold and remains like this also when this window is accessed next time, to indicate that it has been overridden.
To revert to the previous value, click the left gray area of the Global variable entry and then click Reset To Original Values.
- Sorting and filtering can be applied on any of the grid's columns.
- To edit the Global variable's value, click the Edit
icon and update the value. The Edit icon then becomes the Reset 
icon, so that the user can revert back to the original value. - To revert several values simultaneously, the user can select the required rows and click the Reset
button. - The icon remains as Reset also when this window is accessed next time, to indicate that the value has been overridden.
Notes:
- Only non-final Globals are displayed in the Globals environment's table.
- New global variables cannot be created per environment.
- When an implementation has been updated - e.g., adding a new global variable in an LU - deploy the updated LU, close the Environments window and reopen it to see the changes in the Globals grid.
Step 4 - Deploying the Environments
Repeat steps 1-3 to create the environments and then do the following:
Save the environments definitions:
The environment cannot be saved when
is displayed to indicate that a mandatory field is not populated.If the mandatory settings are missing, a validation error message opens:
Click Deploy to deploy an environment to the Fabric server. Unlike interfaces, environments are not deployed together with an LUT, Reference tables and Web Services and require an explicit deployment.
Note that environments can be deployed to the Fabric Server either from the Fabric Studio or using a command line to perform an offline deployment from an XML file.
Once the environments' definition is completed, deploy them to the server by clicking the Deploy Environments 
button.
The environments' saving is performed automatically, prior to their deployment. If at least one of the environments has an empty name, the deployment would fail.
Create and Edit Environment
The following steps are used for creating an environment in Fabric:
- Creating the environment in the Fabric Studio using the Environments window.
- Populating the connection details of the interfaces via the selected environment.
- Overriding Globals at any Shared, Reference or LU level via the dedicated tab in the selected environment view.
- Deploying all environments to server.
Step 1 - Creating the Environment
Go to Project Tree > Shared Objects and double click Environments to open the Environments window.
In the Environments List grid, do the following:
Enter a meaningful name for the environment in the Name field.
(Optional) In the Comments field, add a description of the environment.
(Optional) In the Fabric URL field, select the server from the predefined list in the Server Configuration tab in the User Preferences window.
The selected Fabric node is used to encrypt the passwords of all interfaces related to the given environment and to run the test connection. If the node is not selected, Fabric uses the local test connection and previous encryption algorithm.
Click Re-Key to use the most updated encryption mechanism and the latest master key to encrypt the passwords of the interfaces.
Click here for more information about Fabric security hardening.
Go to Project Tree > Shared Objects > Environments > Environments to open the window.
Click Create Environment to start the environment creation.
- Enter a meaningful name for the environment in the Name field.
- (Optional) In the Description field, add a description of the environment.
The following activities can be done on each environment:
Click the Delete
icon to delete the environment.Click the Active
icon to disable or enable the environment.Click the Test All Connections button to test the connections of all interfaces under this environment. Once the test connection is completed, the results (success or failure icon) are displayed next to each interface name:
Step 2 - Defining Interface Settings per Environment
Once Name in the Environments List grid is clicked, all DB and non-DB interfaces in the project are copied to the Selected Environment grid and displayed in the tabs. Each interface type is displayed in a separate tab. For example, if the project has DB, SMTP, Kafka and HTTP interfaces, each type is displayed in a separate tab.
By default, all interfaces are enabled. However each interface can be disabled if it is not applicable for the environment.
Select the interface and enable or disable it for the environment by either:
- Clicking the Enabled column checkbox.
- Right clicking the row and clicking Set Selected Rows as Enabled or Set Selected Rows as Disabled. Hold the Ctrl key to select multiple rows.
Populate the relevant fields of each active interface in the Selected Environment grid: Server, User, Password, etc. If the project has several interface types, go through the tabs and populate all mandatory fields.
- Note that when the password is updated, the Fabric Studio re-encrypts it.
Once an environment is added (upper part of the window), all DB and non-DB interfaces in the project appear at the bottom left area of the window. You can go over them and populate their connection details, such as Host and Port.
By default, all interfaces are enabled. However each interface can be disabled if it is not applicable for the environment. This can be done by clicking the Active toggle in the interface.
Step 3 - Overriding Globals per Environment
In addition to the interfaces that are automatically copied to the created environment, Globals can also be overridden per environment via the Globals tab.
The Globals tab grid has the following columns:
To edit the Global variable value, type in the new value. The new value becomes bold and remains like this also when this window is accessed next time, to indicate that it has been overridden.
To revert to the previous value, click the left gray area of the Global variable entry and then click Reset To Original Values.
- Sorting and filtering can be applied on any of the grid's columns.
- To edit the Global variable's value, click the Edit icon and update the value. The Edit icon then becomes the Reset icon, so that the user can revert back to the original value.
- To revert several values simultaneously, the user can select the required rows and click the Reset button.
- The icon remains as Reset also when this window is accessed next time, to indicate that the value has been overridden.
Notes:
- Only non-final Globals are displayed in the Globals environment's table.
- New global variables cannot be created per environment.
- When an implementation has been updated - e.g., adding a new global variable in an LU - deploy the updated LU, close the Environments window and reopen it to see the changes in the Globals grid.
Step 4 - Deploying the Environments
Repeat steps 1-3 to create the environments and then do the following:
Save the environments definitions:
The environment cannot be saved when
is displayed to indicate that a mandatory field is not populated.If the mandatory settings are missing, a validation error message opens:
Click Deploy to deploy an environment to the Fabric server. Unlike interfaces, environments are not deployed together with an LUT, Reference tables and Web Services and require an explicit deployment.
Note that environments can be deployed to the Fabric Server either from the Fabric Studio or using a command line to perform an offline deployment from an XML file.
Once the environments' definition is completed, deploy them to the server by clicking the Deploy Environments button.
The environments' saving is performed automatically, prior to their deployment. If at least one of the environments has an empty name, the deployment would fail.
