Add-on registration for Portal

Add-ons are packages that are required to work with supported databases, find specific sensitive data or generate data. Their content consists of support for database analyzers, discoverers and generators (used by BizDataX Portal), and for database handlers (used by BizDataX Designer).

Table of contents
Add-ons page
Add-on from feed
Add-on to upload
Video steps

Add-ons page

In the main navigation, when on the Home page, the Add-ons page can be found under the Add-ons navigation item. It displays the Add-ons overview list.

Add-ons navigation item Figure 1: Add-ons navigation item

All installed Add-ons can be viewed on this Installed Add-ons overview list screen. The overview will be by default ordered by Add-on name.

Add-ons page Figure 2: Add-ons page

There are two ways a new Add-on can be registered:

  1. from a feed and
  2. by uploading an Add-on from disk.

Add-on from feed

The steps for registering an Add-on from the feed are:

  1. Enter Remote feed URL.

When ‘Add-on from feed’ is chosen as Source, field ‘URL’ is by default populated with BDX feed with released nuggets: “http://nuget.bizdatax.com/nuget”.

  1. Filter Add-ons by their name or description.

This field is optional.

  1. Include pre-released versions of Add-ons.

Only released versions are displayed by default.

  1. Select wanted Add-on from Add-ons drop-down list.

Details of chosen Add-on will be displayed in the tooltip.

  1. Select the wanted Add-on version from the Add-on version drop-down list.

Displayed versions depend on the choice made in step 2.

  1. Click the 'Confirm' button.

Add-on is now registered and ready for use.

Add-on from feed Figure 3: Add-on from feed

Add-on to upload

If the Add-on is saved to disk, the user can choose the Add-on from disk to add via the browser.

The steps for registering an Add-on to upload are:

  1. Select the 'Add-on to upload' header.

The 'Choose file' button will be enabled.

  1. Click the' Choose file' button.

A browser window will be displayed.

  1. Choose and select the wanted file.

Files are filtered by the file format .nupkg. Only that format is accepted as a valid Add-on. Details of chosen Add-on will be displayed in the tooltip.

  1. Click the 'Confirm' button.

Add-on is now registered and ready for use.

Add-on to upload Figure 4: Add-on to upload

Video steps