External Connection

Owned by PeterF (Deactivated)
Sept 06, 2016
1 min read

An External Connection lets you define an connection to an external database.

External Connections are used by a number of the Integrationthat Noojee Campaigner supports.

Connections to an external database are made via JDBC and as such an appropriate JDBC driver must by loaded into the Noojee Campaigner backend.

Currently MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server are supported however support of additional databases can be easily facilitated.

The External Connection can also be used to define the connection properties to an external Web Service.

 

Field Description
Name A unique name for this External Connection
Host The FQDN or IP address of the host that the external database or web service runs on.
Schema Were the Type is a database then then Schema is the database name that is to be connected to. For a Web Service this field should be left blank.
Username The username to authenticate to the external database or web service.
Password The password to authenticate to the external database or web service.
Type The type of external connection being made.