The Connection element takes multiple attributes: name, type, userid, password, account, metadatadatabase, resultdatabase, statisticaltestdatabase, publishdatabase, advertisedatabase and alwaysadvertise (=true/false).
- The name attribute is the name of the connection for the particular type of connection being requested. The name attribute is the name of the connection for the particular type of connection being requested.
- The type attribute corresponds to the four different types of connection that TWM supports: System, User, File, and Simple.
If the connection type is System or User, the connection name must match a defined ODBC datasource of the appropriate type (System or User). If the specified connection name is not found in the TWM connections saved from interactive sessions, a warning is given and default values are used for metadatadatabase, resultdatabase, statisticaltestdatabase, publishdatabase and advertisedatabase, unless overridden through the connection elements listed above.
An example of specifying a user connection using the existing data source name “MyConnection” which defines the userid and password in the data source and overriding the result database to “MyResultDatabase” follows:
<Connection name="MyConnection" type="user" resultDatabase="MyResultDatabase" />