I created a new universe using the Information Design tool. Followed all the instructions as far as creating a new connection, a new data foundation and a new business layer. I gave my connection the same name as another connection we have but it is used by a .unv.
Then when I started to publish the connection, I was wondering, will the new connection attached to my .unx overwrite the connection attached to my .unv? If it does, will my other universes that use the old .unv connection still work?
Do you have to create a new connection for every universe? As in there will now be a 1 to 1 relationship between a universe and a connection with the new .unx universes?
Connection management (like almost everything else) is very different in IDT.
In IDT, universes can only be associated with a local connection, or with a connection shortcut that points to a repository connection.
I haven’t tried it recently, but I believe if you try to publish a universe that is using a local connection, it will fail.
What you will need to do is create a connection shortcut in your project for the repository-based connection. You do this in the Repository Resources panel (lower left panel in IDT). Navigate to the connection you want to use, right-click on it, and hit “Create Relational Connection Shortcut”. Then select the project to create the shortcut it. Once done, you should see a new .cns file in the project (as opposed to a .cnx, which is a local connection). Go into the data foundation, “Connection” panel, hit the Change Connection button, and select the .cns file. Once all this is done, you can delete the .cnx connection (optional - it won’t hurt anything by being there).
If for some reason you didn’t want to use the existing connection in the repository, you could publish your local connection to the repository; that action will also create the local connection shortcut.
I appreciate your reply because it confirms my theory that we need to keep using the Universe Design Tool for now.
My question was more related to how “connections” can or cannot be shared between .unv universes and .unx universes but there are enough unknowns here to keep me rooted in the Universe Design tool for now.
Connections can certainly be shared between unv/unx universes. The only difference is that IDT has this concept of Connection Shortcuts that makes managing them a little different.
It can be quite confusing, coming from UDT, but it does make sense.
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