Connections provide a channel of communication between your account and the accounts of partner individuals and organisations. Connections also provide a channel of communication to installed modules.
The Connections icon shows a list of connection for the account.
| Connection | A link to Connection details. |
| Connection folder |
A link to the Connection folder for the connection. Connection folders for partner individuals and organisations live in the Partners top-level folder. Connections folder for modules live in Modules. |
| Active | Indicates if the setting is active. Inactive channels are switched off, and cannot be used to send or receive tasks or messages. |
| Last error | Shows the most recent error found in the channel. |
| Test | Click on the stethoscope icon to send a test message through the channel. This will indicate whether the channel is working correctly. Assuming the channel is, this will also reset the last error. |
| Actions |
Shows an icon to edit the Connection details or to delete the connection. Deleting a connection Only use connection deletion to permanently clean up a connection. If you want to keep the tasks associated with a connection, setting the connection inactive may be better. See Connection details. Deleting the connection will not delete tasks that have used the connection to send work out. Deleting the connection will delete the Connection folder. Tasks that have been received through the connection and which were in the connection folder will be moved to the lost+found folder. Sub-folders of the connection group will be moved to be sub folders of the Home folder. If you choose to delete a connection, you will be asked to confirm before the delete takes place. Connections may have hundreds of connection log items, so do not be alarmed by the number of items that will be deleted. Deleting may take some time if there are a very large number of items. |
The Action drop down contains two options.
| Connection wizard | Opens the Connection wizard. |
| Test all connections | Tests all the connections and shows any errors. |
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