object folder contains all the supported standard objects from the common data model. All the standard objects from the common data model are placed in a hierarchical folder structure defined by Microsoft.
Select the target object as
Existing
and then select objects from the
Common Data Model
object folder if you want to write data to standard common data model objects.
The following image shows the
Common Data Model
object folder that displays all the supported standard objects from the common data model:
You can use standard objects available in the
Common Data Model
object folder when the CDM folder that you specified in the connection properties, for example,
demo/qa
does not contain any predefined objects.
When you run the mapping, the following files are added to the CDM folder, for example,
demo/qa
:
The Account folder contains the actual data.
Account.cdm.json
contains all the metadata information such as fields and data types of the fields.
default.manifest.cdm.json
file contains information about all the objects.
The following image shows the manifest file that contains information about the Account object: