Sections

After a process pattern has been imported into MetaKraftwerk, the contained objects can be viewed in the web app. The sidebar displays the folders, mappings, mapplets, workflows and data structures underneath the pattern entry. When an object is selected, it is displayed in the detail view in the pattern editor. In order to prepare a pattern for instantiation by MetaKraftwerk, transformations, data structures, sessions, and other objects must be augmented with some more metadata rules, e.g. a column in a table must be marked as variable. For this purpose, various editors are available.

Clicking on the pattern in the sidebar (top-level element) opens the pattern settings. These are divided into different sections:

Section	Description
Description	Here you can store a description of the pattern or documentation for users.
Functional Roles	In this section, you can define the functional roles of the pattern.
Instance Properties	Define the properties of the instances, i.e. the schema of the instance metadata.
Constraints	Here you can define constraints on the instance metadata schema, which are checked on instance metadata.
Data types	Define how data types from the data integration tool should be mapped to native data types from databases.
Files	In this section, file templates can be developed, e.g. DDL scripts, procedures, Python notebooks.
Reusable Expressions	With reusable expressions, the templates can be structured modularly. Expressions can be defined here once and then reused anywhere in the pattern
Variables	The global values of the pattern variables can be defined here
Deployments	Deployments for the pattern can be defined in this section. There are various deployment targets
History	Display of all previous pattern commits
Labels	Definition of pattern-level labels