Publishing snapshots

Before publishing a snapshot for a view, ensure that you have added a publishing target to the view in the Publishing Options tab that is snapshot enabled. For more information, see Creating views.

You can publish a snapshot of a view to push the existing data from NexJ CRM to the Kafa, delimited file, or JSON file publishing endpoints once. Select the required view in the views data table, click the More Actions button

, select Publish Snapshot, and select the publishing target.

A message will display asking you to confirm that you want to export the specified number of records. You can also publish the snapshot from the View Details page.

As of Data Bridge 3.4.1, when a File (JSON) or File (Delimited) snapshot is published, the output extract files are written to a directory specified in an environment file (for example, DataBridge_Extracts). If only one extract file is created by the snapshot it will be written directly to the specified directory (for example, DataBridge_Extracts/filename.extension). If more than one extract file is created by the snapshot it will be written to a subdirectory below the specified directory created for the individual snapshot (for example, DataBridge_Extracts/SnapShotName/filename.extension).

When date and time attributes are exported for any publishing endpoint, their values are translated into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) standard format.

As of Data Bridge 3.4.1, when you publish a File (Delimited) or File (JSON) snapshot for a view, a MANIFEST file is created to provide you with a list of the output extract files that are included in the snapshot, and to notify you that the snapshot has been published. For more information about MANIFEST files, see Output format specifications.