What's new in the Data Connector SDK

In each release, changes are made to make the MicroStrategy SDK more powerful and easier to use.

2020

There were no significant changes from the previous version.

2019

There were no significant changes from the previous version.

11.0

• The Javascript file, mstrgdc-1.0.js, has been replaced with a newer version that lets you take advantage of new features such as table-level settings for multiple tables and creating custom error messages.

  If you created a new data connector with a previous version of the product, you must upgrade your MicroStrategy product and replace mstrgdc-1.0.js with mstrgdc-2.0.js to take advantage of new features. Simply download mstrgdc_20js.zip, extract the latest version of the mstrgdc-2.0.js Javascript file, and use it to replace the existing file in your data connector.

• When you connect to multiple tables, you are now able to set table-level parameters for each table. In previous releases, if multiple tables were imported in one connection, they all had to share the same settings.
• New functionality has been added to help troubleshoot data connectors:

  • You can create custom errors and error messages.

    The SDK provides APIs for data connectors to pass errors to the Intelligence Server at each of the steps in the fetch table phase of the data connector workflow. Each step has a callback function with a parameter that can be used to pass errors and error messages.

  • You can override an invalid certificate or accept a self-signed certificate.
    

10.11

The Javascript file, mstrgdc_1.0.js, has been updated to remove a potential security risk.

If you created a data connector using a previous version of the Data Connector SDK, we strongly recommend that you upgrade your MicroStrategy products to 10.11 and replace the mstrgdc_1.0.js file in your data connector. This will eliminate the potential security risk. You can download the newest Javascript file from the Quick Start Guide.

10.10

There were no significant changes from the previous version.

10.9

There were no significant changes from the previous version.

10.8

To help users get started creating custom data connectors, a Quick Start Guide, with a working custom data connector sample, was added. By design, it is a simple connector that uses a simple CSV file as its data source. Users can extrapolate from this simple code, to build a custom connector of their own.

10.7

The Data Connector SDK was introduced in 10.7.

• A new Data Connector SDK was added to the MicroStrategy Developer Library.
  
• The new Data Connector API lets administrators create custom connections to web data sources. Once a new connector is created, users with Data Import privileges can use it to import data into MicroStrategy, just like they do with data sources that MicroStrategy supports out-of-the-box. Currently, the Data Connector API supports connections to data sources with JSON, EXCEL and CSV/TXT file types, as well as data sources with a user-defined schema.