Configure a data source connector from the user interface

Select the Adobe Experience Manager link at the top and choose Tools.

Select Guides from the list of tools.

Select the Data Sources tile. The Data Sources page is displayed. You can view the connected data sources.

You can toggle between the List View or Tile View to view the various connected data sources as a list or as tiles.

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View or Create a data source connector.

Click Create.

Select the database for which you want to create the connector. For example, the ElasticSearch connector.

Click Next.

Enter the configuration and connection details as per the database.

• Name: Enter the name of the data source.
• Authentication type: Select the type of authentication from the drop-down. For example, Basic username-password authentication
• Username: Enter your username.
• Password: Enter your username and password.
• URL: Add the API URL.

Select the Exclude factory templates option to exclude the factory templates from being used for topic and snippet generation. They will not appear under the Data mapping template dropdown in the Add content snippet generator or the Add topic generator dialog box.

Select Test connection. You can view the Test Connection button enabled only after you add the required details. View a success message if the connection details are correct. Otherwise, you might view an error message.

Select Save on the top to save the connector. View the Save button enabled after you fill in all the details and the connection is successful.

If the connector is saved successfully, you can view the connected data source on the page.

Select in the URL resource section to add a resource for each URL.

Configure all the details in the Add resource dialog box.

Click Add.

You can edit or delete the resource from the URL resource list.

You can also use the default resources available for data sources like Salsify, Akeneo, and Microsoft ADO. Toggle the options OFF for the resource you don’t want to configure for a data source.

Add the dependency in all/pom.xml in your cloud manager Git project code. For example, you can add the following dependency for Microsoft Azure DevOps Boards data source connector.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.adobe.aem.addon.guides</groupId>
    <artifactId>konnect-azure-devops</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <type>jar</type>
</dependency>

Embed the added dependency.

 ```
 <embedded>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aem.addon.guides</groupId>
     <artifactId>konnect-azure-devops</artifactId>
     <type>jar</type>
     <target>/apps/aemdoxonaemcsstageprogram-vendor-packages/content/install</target>
 </embedded>
 ```

Run the pipeline to apply the changes in the Cloud Services.
The connector is installed in your environment.