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      Use the Discovery application

      No installation is required: launch the application file, which you can download here:

      Use the Discovery application

      The Discovery application is composed of 2 tabs:

      New Discovery tab

      In this tab, you can find the list of the available source types you can discover and then use in the biGENIUS-X application:

      It is currently possible to discover the following data:

      The configuration details for each available source type are in the corresponding article.

      To create a new discovery, click on a source type:

      The connection information is displayed according to the source type chosen:

      Fill in all the needed information and then click on the Next button:

      Click on the Discover Source System Data button:

      The Discovery application connects to the source type with the configuration provided:

      When the metadata is found, the application lists the available objects:

      You can expand the discovered objects to check the metadata:

      Select the objects you need for the discovery and click on the Save As... button:

      By default, the Discovery file name respects the format [Discovery name]_YYYYMMDD_HHmmSS.yaml and will be saved at the default application path C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\biGENIUS\DiscoveryApp\Discoveries:

      Save the file.

      This file can now be used to create a discovery in the biGENIUS-X application.

      The discovery configuration itself is stored in the path C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\biGENIUS\DiscoveryApp\DataStorage:

      There is one file per Source System Type containing the existing configurations.

      The passwords and other sensitive information are not stored and are used only to discover the source system data.

      Recent tab

      In this tab, you can find all the previous discovery configurations you did:

      Source System Type groups them.

      This list comes from the configurations stored in the path C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\biGENIUS\DiscoveryApp\DataStorage.

      If you click on a recent discovery, the configuration details are displayed:

      You can update them and create a new discovery file using the same process as for the New discovery tab.

      It is also possible to remove a discovery from the Recent tab by right-clicking on a discovery and choosing the remove entry: