Integration Builder |
Use BarTender Integration Builder to create highly customizable integrations so that you can seamlessly connect BarTender's printing capabilities with virtually any enterprise business operation. With this highly customizable and powerful service, you can perform enterprise-level tasks, including the following:
Initiate the print process automatically at "trigger" events, such as a database modification or the arrival of an email message, a saved file, or a web service request
Connect to and communicate with clients over TCP/IP, UDP, or HTTP
Perform basic file operations, such as move, rename, delete, or copy
Integrate directly with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, including support for SAP, Oracle, and IBM WebSphere connectivity
For example, suppose that your ERP system routinely saves a data file to a specific network folder location or to a cloud data store. By using Integration Builder, you can create an integration that monitors the location where the file is regularly saved and, when a new file is saved there, automatically performs one or more actions that you have specified. Actions can include data transformation, document printing, email generation, and many others.
All print jobs that result from an integration are sent to the printers by using the Print Scheduler Service. This Windows service intelligently assigns jobs to print engines to maximize performance while maintaining print order and any required serialization.
Using the Integration Builder Interface
The components of Integration Builder's user interface help you to successfully create, test, and deploy your integrations. This section describes these components. They include comprehensive design and test views that include dialogs that you can use to select the integration methods and actions that you want and to set up deployment configurations.
Creating, Testing, and Deploying Integrations
This section provides step-by-step procedures to help you successfully create, test, and deploy your integrations.
Integration Builder supports the use of variables to assign values for many of the configuration options that are included on your integration and action property pages. This section describes the different types of variables that are available and describes how you can create custom variables.
An integration method is the trigger event or connection on which you want to base your automation. This section describes the integration methods that Integration Builder supports and the properties that you can configure for each method.
Each integration that you create can perform multiple actions that you can automate in response to the trigger event or connection. By using Integration Builder, you can configure each action separately, specify the order in which they are performed, and group actions together. This section describes the actions that Integration Builder supports and the properties that you can configure for each action.
If after consulting this online help system you have difficulty using Integration Builder, you can visit the BarTender online Support Center for training videos and technical support information.