Configure an integration app CAD provider to receive CAD calls from an integration app or plugin specific to your CAD provider.
What you should know
Procedure
- From the Providers page, select the CAD ingestion service check box.
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From the CAD ingestion service properties section, navigate to the
Provider type menu, and select Integration
app.
- In the Provider address field, enter the provider address of the integration app.
- In the Authentication info field, enter the authentication info from the system user profile you created when preparing the plugin to connect to CAD systems.
Best Practice: Do not change the remaining values in the CAD ingestion service properties section. -
In the Authentication section, select your authentication
mode.
Best Practice:
Basic
is the recommended mode for most use cases. - In the Custom events section, define a time period after which a notification is sent if no data is received.
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In the Data retention section, determine how long CAD data is
saved for:
- Duration
- Choose to retain data forever, or for a specified number of days.
- Storage
- Choose to store CAD data using a database or with local memory only.
- Keep history
- Choose to retain a history of actions performed on the CAD data.
- Keep closed events
- Choose to retain a record of events occurring in the system related to CAD data.
Best Practice: Use the information populated by default for the remaining fields. - In the Search from section, leave the Prefer field set to Local only unless your organization is using a search API exposed by the CAD provider.
- (Optional) Modify information in the Descriptor fields to customize how CAD data is displayed in Genetec Citigraf™.
- Click Apply.