Generic XML data source properties reference

Open the Properties view in the Launcher application and select a Generic XML data source. The Properties view displays these available properties for Generic XML data sources.
Type Value Description
Name String Required. The title of the schema as entered in Document Studio. You cannot edit this field in this view.
Description String Required. The explanation of how the schema is used as entered in Document Studio. You cannot edit this field in this view.
Type Generic XML Required. The schema type. You cannot edit this field in this view.
Configuration required uri Optional. You cannot edit this value in this view. Property set in the template which specifies which configurations are necessary when launching the document generation.
  • none: No configuration is required from the report generator. If a data source is not configured, no warnings display at run time.
  • uri: Only the data source is required to be configured to generate the document.
  • credentials: Only the credentials to authenticate with the data provider are required to generate the document.
  • full: The data source must be configured and credentials must be given to generate the document.
  • hidden: The data source does not display in the Launcher so that the template settings cannot be overridden.
Driver eval Required. You cannot edit this field.
URI File path Required. The path to the data source resource. For Generic XML, the path is an absolute path to an XML file. Example: http://server:port/path/to/dataSource.xml
Username String Optional. User name to login into the data source application.
Password String Optional. Password to login into the data source application.
Authentication basic, form, oauth Optional. The authentication type for connecting to the data source. If no authentication type is specified, each type is tested.
Command String Optional. A script to execute when the output is generated.
Ignored true, false Optional. Set to true to exclude a template from generating when you are running multiple templates from one document specification. false is the default value.
Accept header image/jpeg, text/html, application/xml, */* Optional. A specific type of resource that is retrieved from the data source.

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