Manage connections

Once Admin users have created one or more connections, they can manage them in the Connections Manager. The latest update to the Connection experience adds two important capabilities within the Connection Details page, described further down on this page:

• It lets you check the status of your connection’s datasets and of the ingestion process. This status check lets you know when your data is available so that you can go into Analysis Workspace and start analysis.

• It lets you identify any data discrepancies due to misconfiguration. Are you missing any rows? If yes, what rows are missing and why? Did you misconfigure connections and cause missing data in Customer Journey Analytics?

Here is a video about the new Connections Manager:

Connections Manager

The Connections Manager allows you to:

• View all your connections at a glance, including the owner, the sandbox, and when they were created and modified.
• View all datasets in a connection.
• Check the status of a connection.
• Delete a connection.
• Rename a connection.
• Create a data view from a connection.

Connection Manager settings

Setting	Description
Name	The connection’s friendly name. When you click the hyperlinked name, you get to the Connection details page described below.
Connection info	Click the info icon next to the connection name to view the following information:
Edit a connection	Click the ellipsis (…) next to the connection name, then click Edit. For more information, see “Edit connection” below.
Delete a connection	Click the ellipsis (…) next to the connection name, then click Delete. More information under the “Delete connections” heading below.
Create data view	Click the ellipsis (…) next to the connection name, then click Create data view. This action creates a new data view based on this connection. Learn more
Datasets	The datasets that are part of the connection. You can click the hyperlink to view all the datasets in the connection. Clicking on a dataset opens that dataset in Adobe Experience Platform, in a new tab.
Sandbox	The Adobe Experience Platform sandbox from which this connection draws its datasets. This sandbox was selected when you first created the connection. It cannot be changed.
Owner	The person who created the connection.
Import Data Sets	Lets you enable or disable what used to be called “data streaming.”
Date Created	The date when the connection was first created.
Last Modified	The date when the connection was last updated.

Delete connections

Only Admins have permission to delete a connection. This action does not show up for non-admins.

1. Click the ellipsis (…) next to the connection name.
2. Click Delete.

When you delete a connection in Customer Journey Analytics, an error message will indicate that:

• Any data views that were created based on the deleted connection no longer work.
• Similarly, any Workspace projects that depend on data views in the deleted connection will cease working.

Learn more about deletion implications.

Search for a connection or dataset

You can search for connections using the Search bar at the top, underneath the Connections title.

Sort connections

You can sort connections by clicking each column header and sorting up or down.

Connection Details page

The new Connections Details page gives you a very detailed view of the status of a connection.

It lets you:

• Check the status of your connection’s datasets and of the ingestion process.
• Identify configuration problems that lead to skipped, or deleted records.
• See when the data is available for reporting.

Here are the widgets and settings explained:

Connection Details settings

Right-hand rail settings at connection level

Right-hand rail settings at dataset level

Edit connection

Allows Admins to edit the connection. Select a connection, then click Edit Connection to get to this dialog. Here, you can do the following:

• Start and stop importing new data. This process was formerly known as “data streaming”.
• Rename a connection.
• Refresh the dataset/s.
• Remove dataset/s from the connections.