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Contact CData sales if you are interested in a Embedded Cloud account. Embedded Cloud consists of two levels of accounts:
  • Parent Account—CData sales creates the parent account. The parent account is responsible for managing the child accounts and can create, view, and edit child accounts through the Embedded Cloud API. The parent account can monitor and troubleshoot child accounts.
  • Child Account—In the child account, each end user will have his/her own account. The end users can create, edit, and delete data sources. They can connect to data sources and query data.
The Embedded Cloud Accounts page contains the child account names, external Id, and account Ids for reference.
Click the edit icon to change the account name or external Id. Click the delete icon to delete the child account.

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Embedded Cloud Quickstart

The following is an overview of setting up Embedded Cloud. There are four main steps.

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Step 1: Create a Parent Account

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CData sets up a parent account for you and sends you the account information, including the account name and account Id.
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The administrator of the Embedded Cloud parent account creates a JSON Web Token (JWT), which consists of a private key and a corresponding public key. The private key must be stored according to the security requirements of the product integrated with Embedded Cloud.
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The administrator provides the public key certificate in Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) format to register the management account. They can register the public key by opening a support ticket with Connect AI.
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Once registered, the administrator of the parent account can sign in to the account. Please accept the terms of service.
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The parent account’s administrator creates and manages the child accounts.

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Step 2: Create a Child Account

Once you created the parent account, you can create the child accounts in one of two ways:
  • In the Accounts page, click +Add account. Enter the Account Name and External ID of the child account, and click Confirm.
  • Use Create Account in the Embedded Cloud API to create a child account. You must supply the JWT that you created in Create a Parent Account, as well as the External ID of the child account.

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Step 3: Set Custom Overrides for Drivers (Optional)

Custom overrides allows the end users to log in with their own organization’s OAuth credentials, rather than CData credentials. To add connection overrides, follow these steps:
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In the Sources tab of the Settings page, click +Add Override.
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Search for the data source to override. Click Next.
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Select the Setting to override.
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Enter the Override Value.
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Select whether the value should apply to new connections only or to all connections (new and existing).
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Click Confirm.
End users can now use the custom credentials.

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Step 4: Configure a Connection

An end user of the child account clicks Add Connection on your web page. On the backend, your web site calls Create Connnection, which generates a redirect URL to the Embedded Cloud web page. The end user can then configure a connection of a certain type, such as a Salesforce connection, and save and test the connection. When the end user is finished, he/she is then redirected back to your web page containing a list of connections. See Connection Flow for more details.

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Step 5: Query the Data

Use one of the following Connect AI drivers to query the data: In addition, Embedded Cloud provides a full-featured REST API. You can query data directly with any REST-compatible application or integration tool capable of creating HTTP requests.

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View Logs

Use the Logs page or the Log API to view and download a list of logs for a Embedded Cloud account.