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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Quick Start Guide
  4. IDD Configuration Manager
  5. Manual IDD Configuration
  6. Appendix A: Application Components
  7. Appendix B: Appendix B: Locale Codes

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IDD Concepts

IDD Concepts

This section describes core concepts that are useful for working with IDD.

IDD Application

An IDD application is the main configuration and deployment unit for IDD implementations. An IDD application is what business users see when they launch and log onto IDD.

IDD Configuration Manager

The IDD Configuration Manager is a web-based utility used to add, modify and manage IDD applications. For more information, refer to the section IDD Configuration Manager later in this document.

IDD Configuration Files

An IDD application includes of a collection of configuration files: an IDD configuration file (XML), resource bundles, internationalization message bundles, online help and other auxiliary files. These can be loaded or modified in the IDD Configuration Manager or exported and edited manually. For a complete description of these files, see
Appendix A: Application Components
later in this document.

Physical MDM-RE System

Each IDD application is bound to a MDM-RE System. Physical MDM-RE System should be registered in the IDD Configuration Manager before an IDD application can be created for this System. To register a Physical System it is necessary to provide information required to connect to the MDM-RE System and MDM-RE Secure Search Server.

Logical MDM-RE System

An IDD application configuration declares one or more logical MDM-RE Systems. A logical MDM-RE System is an IDD configuration pointer to a physical MDM-RE System registered in the IDD Configuration Manager. Essentially, a Logical MDM-RE System consists of a logical name and a reference to the Physical MDM-RE System.

Identity Table (IDT)

IDD representation of Physical MDM-RE Identity Table (configured in the “idt-definition” section of the System Definition File (SDF). An IDD application may include all or only a subset of Identity Tables available in the Physical MDM-RE System.

Cluster

IDD representation of MDM-RE Clusters created with Persistent-ID (Dynamic Clustering) feature of MDM-RE. All clusters configured in Physical MDM-RE System for an Identity Table are available in the IDD application. A cluster object consists of a preferred (“result”) record and one or more source member records. Cluster objects are distinguished by cluster types (Persistent-ID provided in the System Definition File). Refer to the
MDM-RE Design Guide
for more details. A cluster in IDD is displayed as a tab inside the Cluster Container tab.
A number of presentation options for a cluster type are configurable in IDD Configuration Manager.

Cluster Container

A container for one or more cluster objects that all share a common record. There are 3 types of Cluster Containers:
  • source record based – contains all clusters that have provided source record as its member;
  • preferred record based – since a preferred record belongs only to one Cluster object, preferred record based Cluster Container contains only one Cluster object;
  • relationship view link based – consists of two Cluster objects that compose a link in the relationship view

Starting record

A Starting Record is the record from which the Cluster Container was generated. It is distinguished in Cluster Data View by blue background. A Starting Record can be either a preferred or a source record.
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