July 2013 Updates

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UI Enhancements

'Lay of the Land' for new users
When you create a new user, you have an option to 'Show Guide'. When selected, this option calls out some key pieces of SnapLogic Designer's user interface when the user first logs in.

Intra-client links
Additional links have been added in the upper right hand corner to include direct access to your user account in SnapLogic Manager and to the product help.

Read-only workbenches / pipelines
Read-only mode has been implemented for pipelines in the case that someone else is already modifying it.

Scheduler information added to SnapLogic Manager Welcome page
Schedule jobs are now visible on the Welcome page of SnapLogic Manager.

Added ability to delete segments from pipeline
You can now delete segments of a pipeline. Clicking Delete on a Snap's info box will warn you that other Snaps are still connected and prompt you whether to delete connected Snaps or delete the links and the selected Snaps.

Snaps

Salesforce.com Snaps updated to support Salesforce REST API
The setting of Salesforce API was added to all Salesforce.com Snaps. This setting allows you to choose whether to use the Bulk API or REST API. The Snap in REST API mode creates one record at a time and returns the results at the output. REST API can be simpler and faster if the number of records to be created is small.

File Reader/Multi File Reader Snaps
There are now separate Snaps for reading a single file into SnapLogic and reading multiple files. These Snaps were also updated to support FTP.

  • File Reader
  • Multi File Reader
  • New Snaps for REST API
  • The following Snaps were added to support REST API service endpoints.
  • REST Delete
  • REST Get
  • REST Post
  • REST Put


New Snap: JSON Splitter
The JSON Splitter Snap splits a list of values into separate documents.

Updated Expression Language
The expression language used by several Snaps has been updated to better mirror JavaScript.

SnapLogic Manager

Start a pipeline using a URL
You can now start a pipeline run with a URL. To do this, select the Show external URLs option when creating or updating a job schedule. When you save job, you will see the URL for that job in the list of job schedules. Click on that link to run the URL (you may be prompted to log in).