Configure Azure storage

Experience Manager Forms Data Integration provides an Azure storage configuration to integrate forms with Azure storage services. The Form Data Model can be used to create Adaptive Forms that interact with Azure server to enable business workflows. For example:

• Write data into Azure on Adaptive Form submission.
• Write data in Azure through custom entities defined in Form Data Model and vice versa.
• Query Azure server for data and prepopulate Adaptive Forms.
• Read data from Azure server.

Create Azure storage configuration

Before executing these steps, ensure that you have an Azure storage account and an access key to authorize the access to the Azure storage account.

1. Navigate to Tools > Cloud Services > Azure Storage.
2. Select a folder to create the configuration and tap Create.
3. Specify a title for the configuration in the Title field.
4. Specify the name of the Azure storage account in the Azure Storage Account field.
5. Specify the key to access Azure storage account in the Azure Access Key field and tap Save.

Create Form Data Model

After creating the Azure storage configuration, you can create the Form Data Model. Specify the folder that contains the Azure configuration in the Data Source Configuration field while creating the Form Data Model. You can then select the configuration from the list of configurations that exist in the specified folder name.

Add Azure services to the Form Data Model

After creating the Form Data Model and data model objects, you can add Azure services to the Form Data Model.

To add Azure services:

1. In the Edit mode, select the services from the Services section in the left pane and tap Add Selected. The selected services display in the Services tab of the Form Data Model.

   

2. In the Services tab, select the service and Edit Properties. Based on the service, define the input or output model objects for the service.

3. Tap Save to save the form data model.

   The following table describes the available Azure services:

   Service Name	Description
   Get Blob from Azure	Retrieve data stored as a Blob in Azure storage using an ID or a name
   Get Blob with binaries URL from Azure	Retrieve data stored as a Blob with URL for binaries in Azure storage using an ID or a name
   Save Blob in Azure	Use a Blob ID to save data in Azure storage
   Update Blob in Azure	Use a Blob ID to update data in Azure storage
   Retrieve list of Blob IDs from Azure	Retrieve a list of Blob IDs from Azure based on the number defined in the input request.
   Retrieve SAS URLs for Blobs from Azure	Retrieve SAS URLs for Blobs from Azure based on Blob IDs in the input request.
   Delete Blob from Azure	Use a Blob ID to delete data from Azure storage

Define a data model object property as a search key

To define a data model object property as a search key:

1. In the Model tab, select the data model object property and tap Edit Properties.
2. Switch the Search Key toggle option to the ON state. This option is available only for primary data types.
3. Tap Done and then tap Save to save the Form Data Model.

After defining data model object properties as search keys, the hash values are stored in Azure index tags and Base64 encoded values are stored in the Azure metadata.