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Press New data source

On the Sources tab, press New data source in the upper right corner.
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Fill in the details

The New source dialog
  • Name — required, and unique across sources.
  • Description — optional.
  • Shares ID with — optional. The sources whose entry IDs match this one’s. You can leave it empty and set it later.
There is no identifier field. Occtoo derives the source identifier from the name: it strips any leading non-letters and camel-cases the rest, so “Variant from PIM” becomes variantFromPim. That identifier is what the ingest API and destinations use.
The identifier is fixed at creation. Renaming the source later changes the display name only — the identifier keeps its original value. Pick the name with that in mind.
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Save

Press Save. Save stays disabled until you change something. Occtoo creates the source and opens it, so you land straight on the new source page.

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Sharing IDs

Two sources share IDs when the same entry ID means the same thing in both — for example an article number that exists in both a PIM source and an ERP price source. Linking them lets a card pull properties from both and present one entry.

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Next

A new source is empty. To get data into it, either grant a data provider access to it and call the ingest API (Import data), or upload a CSV (Import data from a CSV file).