Designer Navigator Introduction to Using the ODI Navigators

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4.3 Introduction to Using the ODI Navigators

ODI Studio provides four Navigators for managing the different aspects and steps of an ODI integration project: ■ Designer Navigator ■ Operator Navigator ■ Topology Navigator ■ Security Navigator The tasks performed in this getting started guide take place in Designer Navigator to create and execute your developments and in Operator Navigator to monitor the execution of your developments. This section only describes the Navigators that are used in this getting started guide. See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer’s Guide for Oracle Data Integrator for information about the Topology and Security Navigators.

4.3.1 Designer Navigator

Designer Navigator is used to manage metadata, to design data integrity checks, and to build transformations. The main objects you handle through Designer Navigator are models and projects. ■ The data models for your applications contain all of the metadata in your data servers tables, columns, constraints, descriptions, cross-references, etc. ■ The projects contain all of the loading and transformation rules for your data servers interfaces, procedures, variables, etc. The Designer Navigator appears as shown in Figure 4–4 . Starting Oracle Data Integrator 4-7 Figure 4–4 Designer Navigator The Designer Navigator has the following accordions: ■ Projects The Projects accordion contains the developments made with Designer Navigator. ■ Models The Models accordion contains the descriptions of the data and applications structures. ■ Others The Others accordion contains the Global User Functions, Variables, Markers, and Sequences. ■ Solutions The Solutions accordion contains the Solutions that have been created when working with version management. 4-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator The demonstration repository provides the objects you will need in this Getting Started guide: ■ In the Models accordion, you will find all the data models corresponding to the Orders Application, Parameters, and Sales Administration applications. ■ In the Projects accordion, you will find the Demo project and the Sales Administration folder which already contains several interfaces. You will develop your new interfaces in this folder. ■ The necessary Knowledge Modules KM are already imported in the Demo Project: – LKM File to SQL – LKM SQL to SQL – CKM HSQL – IKM SQL Incremental Update

4.3.2 Operator Navigator