In our bi-weekly TechTalks designed for SnapLogic partners and customers, our cloud integration experts talk about tips and tricks for the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform not covered in basic training. This week’s TechTalk focuses on sub pipelines and guaranteed delivery including creating and using nested or sub pipelines, as well as how the ForEach Snap is used and how it’s different from the Task Execute Snap. To learn more, visit: http://www.snaplogic.com/techtalk

1. SnapLogic Best Practices:
Tips and Tricks in 30 Minutes
Praneal Narayan
Rich Dill

2. Agenda
 Today’s Topic: Nested Pipelines
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– What is a nested or sub-pipeline?
– Why use them?
– Creating and using them
– Pipeline examples
ForEach Snap
– What is the ForEach Snap?
– What can I use it for?
– How is it different from the Task Execute Snap?
– Pipeline example

3. Before We Get Started…..
Don’t forget to use our Developer Community
developer.snaplogic.com
 Documentation
 Download the following:
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– Snaplex
– JSDK
– Snap Packs
– Mac, Linux and Windows Installers
 Community Board and Ideas

4. Nested Pipelines
 Provide reusability
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– A pipeline can be as simple as one Snap or many
– A pipeline can be made up a multiple levels of nested pipelines
 Support for guaranteed delivery

5. ForEach Snap
 Provides the ability to invoke a new pipeline for each
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incoming document

6. A Few Tips
 Add GD to the name (or notes) of a Nested pipeline
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when used for guaranteed delivery
 Use functional descriptive names
 When building ForEach pipelines, name them 1 of 2, 2
of 2, etc.
 Use database tables or JSON documents to control the
execution

7. Connecting with the SnapLogic Team
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developer.snaplogic.com
www.snaplogic.com/techtalk
@SnapLogic
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