The global configuration for the Applications Platform Connector The Applications Platform Connector allows communication between BPA Platform and Applications Platform. All communication uses XML. You use the Connector to map BPA Platform data to Applications Platform objects and operations. is used to create connections to Applications Platform Applications Platform provides a fully hosted environment for you to quickly and easily build database applications, develop application extensions create web portals or deploy ready-made library applications..

You access the Applications Platform Connector — Global Configuration interface from the resources tree — expand System > Tools > Data Connectors and double-click Applications Platform Connector in the items list.

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When a connection is created, the available objects and fields of your Applications Platform installation are retrieved.

Before you can use the Applications Platform Connector in a task step, you must create the connection to Applications Platform first.

If required, enable Use Extended Logging to expose the XML parsed between the Applications Platform Connector and Applications Platform.

Without extended logging, the Event Log only contains start and end of transaction messages, plus any error messages encountered at runtime.

You can view the extended log in the BPA Platform Event Log (Tasks toolbar > Event Log ).

Click Add.