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Configuring a message flow node

When you have included an instance of a node in your message flow, you can configure its properties to customize how it works.

Before you begin

Viewing the properties of a node

About this task

To view a node's properties:

Procedure

  1. In the Message Flow editor, open the message flow with which you want to work.
  2. To open the Properties view, right-click a node and click Properties.

    The selected node's properties are displayed. You can edit the properties.

Editing the properties of a node

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Properties are organized into related groups and displayed on tabs. Each tab is listed on the left of the Properties view. Click each tab to view the properties that you can edit.

Procedure

What to do next

For detailed information about how to configure individual built-in nodes, see the reference topic for the relevant node (see Built-in nodes).

If you have included a user-defined node, refer to the documentation that came with the node to understand if, and how, you can configure its properties.

Editing complex properties

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A complex property is a property to which you can assign multiple values. Complex properties are displayed in a table in the Properties view, where you can add, edit, and delete values, and change the order of the values in the table. This example shows the Query elements complex property of the DatabaseRoute node.
The Query elements property of the DatabaseRoute node is an example of a complex property

Procedure

Overriding properties at deployment time

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You can override some node property values when you deploy a message flow. These property values are known as configurable properties, and you can use them to modify some characteristics of a deployed message flow without changing the message flow definitions. For example, you can update queue manager and data source information.

Even though you can set values for configurable properties at deployment time, you must set values for these properties within the message flow if they are mandatory. Each built-in node reference topic contains a table of properties, which identifies the configurable and mandatory properties.

You can override message flow node properties at run time by deploying policies, either directly to an integration server or in a BAR file with your message flows. Alternatively, you can put policies in the overrides sub-directory of the integration server work directory. For more information, see Overriding properties at run time with policies.

What to do next

Next: connect the nodes.

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