Connector Designer

Connector Designer is a feature of Analysis Studio that provides a "code-free" visual tool for creating and modifying simple external searches against third-party data sources. Analysts with experience of working with REST services or SQL databases can set up connectors and simple searches without requiring coding skills or using external consulting resources.

Deploying Connector Designer

To add Connector Designer to an existing deployment of i2 Analyze, follow the steps in Adding Connector Designer to your deployment.

If you're using the containerized configuration development environment, Connector Designer is deployed automatically. For more information about the environment, see the i2 Analyze Deployment Tooling project.

For both deployment methods, you must enable Connector Designer to access external data sources. For more information, see Configuring data access in Connector Designer.

Known issues

The known issues for Connector Designer are available in the Analysis Studio release notes.

Using Connector Designer

i2 has prepared some video tutorials to help you get started with Connector Designer. You can find them on the i2 Group YouTube channel:

Updating Connector Designer

Connector Designer is delivered in a Docker image, which means that it can be updated independently of Analysis Studio and i2 Analyze.