Use the assets in a bundle when the assets are designed to meet the same objectives as your project.
How you can include bundle assets in your project depends on the permissions that the bundle designer designates for the bundle. You can perform one of the following actions depending on which option the bundle designer allows:
•Copy the bundle assets to your project folder and edit the assets for your project. Bundles that allow copy only can be located in any project folder.
•Reference the bundle assets. Select the assets from the Add-on Bundles project when you configure a task. You cannot change a bundle that only allows reference. Bundles that allow reference only are always located in the Add-on Bundles project.
•Copy or reference the bundle assets. Either copy the bundle assets to your project folder or reference the bundle assets in the Add-on Bundles project. Bundles that allow reference or copy are always located in the Add-on Bundles project.
Copying bundle assets
If a bundle allows the copy action, you can copy all of the assets in a bundle to a project or folder.
1Open the Data Quality service or the Data Integration service.
2On the Explore page, create or verify a project that you'll use as a location for the bundle that you select.
You can copy a bundle directly to the project or to a folder in the project.
3Open the Administrator service.
4Select Add-On Bundles from the left-hand pane, and select the Available Bundles tab.
The tab lists the bundles that you can copy to your project.
5Select an accelerator bundle to copy.
The bundle home page opens.
6Click Copy Bundle Content To...
7Browse to the project or project folder that you identified earlier, and click Select.
If you copy a bundle directly to the project level, the bundle contents appear at the project level and not in a folder within the project.
Note: Informatica updates the contents of accelerator bundles in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services from time to time. The updates appear in the bundles that you find under Add-On Bundles in the Administrator service. The updates do not affect any copy of a bundle that you previously made.
Adding an asset to a mapplet or mapping
After you copy an accelerator to a project on the Explore page, you can add an asset in the accelerator to a mapplet or mapping in Data Integration.
You can add a cleanse, deduplicate, labeler, parse, rule specification, or verifier asset to a transformation in a mapping. Or, you can add a mapplet asset to a mapping.
1Open or create a mapping in Data Integration.
2Click Select in the asset that you're working on, and find the project that contains the asset that you need.
aTo add a single asset to a transformation, open the transformation and use the asset selection options to find the asset.
bTo add a mapplet to a mapping, open the mapplet in the mapping and use the mapplet selection options to find the mapplet.
3Click the row that contains the asset, and then click Select.
Referencing bundle assets
Certain asset types allow you to select an asset to use in the asset. If a bundle allows the reference action, you can select the assets in the bundle to use in your asset.
Add a reference to a bundle asset when you configure a mapplet or a mapping in Data Integration.
1Click Select in the asset that you're working on, and then navigate to the Add-On Bundles folder.
2Open the bundle folder that contains the asset you want to use.
3Click the row that contains the asset, and then click Select.
