Acquia Journey adaptors
Acquia Journey provides a wide variety of adaptors, enabling you to
interact with external systems from within your graphs. This allows you
to drive your customer next best action based on specific information
about a user.
Adaptors
Adaptors are created in the project editor, and
each adaptor uses a pre-defined connection to do its
work. Based on your connection type, the following adaptor types and methods
can be created:
| Connection |
Image |
Actions |
|---|
| Acquia Lift connection |
 |
Capture,
Decide,
Visitor,
Content |
| Database |
 |
Read,
Write,
Listen,
Delete |
| Email |
 |
Write |
| File |
 |
Read,
Write |
| Graph API |
 |
Listen |
| Message Queue |
 |
Read,
Write,
Listen |
| REST Web Service |
 |
GET,
POST,
PUT,
PATCH,
DELETE |
| SOAP Web Service |
 |
Web service-dependent |
| Twitter |
 |
Read,
Write,
Listen |
Adding an adaptor
To add an adaptor to your project, complete the following actions:
Note
Most adaptors require that you first create the
connection that is required for the adaptor type
that you want to create.
- Sign in to Acquia Journey.
- From the projects list, identify the project you want to create an adaptor
for, and click its title. Acquia Journey will display the Overview
tab for your project.
- Click the Graphs tab, and then click Create.
- Enter a Name for the adaptor that describes its purpose.
- In the Adaptors section, click the adaptor type that you want to
use.
- At the bottom of the page, click Create Item.
Acquia Journey will display the configuration page for your new
adaptor.
- In the Connection list, click the connection
that you want to use for this adaptor. You can click the pencil icon to
open the Connections tab in Project Admin page where you can edit
existing connections or create a new connection.
- Continue to configure the adaptor based on its specific configuration
instructions in the Adaptors list.
Deleting an adaptor
To delete an adaptor from Acquia Journey that you no longer
require, complete the following actions:
- Sign in to Acquia Journey.
- From the projects list, identify the project you want to delete an adaptor
from, and click its title. Acquia Journey will display the Overview
tab for your project.
- Click the Graphs tab.
- In the Adaptors section, find the adaptor you want to delete, and then
click the trashcan icon.
- In the Delete Item dialog box, click Delete Item to permanently
delete the adaptor from Acquia Journey.
