Structural differences and limitations with the file connector

Required license: Professional or Enterprise

No workspace inheritance

File connector workspaces do not support workspace inheritance.

Table mode limitations

In a file connector workspace, you can only use the following table modes:

• De-Identify

• Truncate

When a file group is assigned Truncate mode, Tonic Structural ignores that file group during data generation.

Generator limitations

The Conditional generator can only be used in a file group that contains CSV files.

Otherwise, the available generators are based on the assigned data type:

• For CSV data, each column is assigned the text data type.

• For JSON, the table contains a single column that is assigned the json data type.

• For XML and HTML, the table contains a single column that is assigned the xml data type.

No subsetting

File connector workspaces do not support subsetting.

No upsert

File connector workspaces do not support upsert.

No output to a container repository

For file connector workspaces, you cannot write the destination data to a container repository.

No output to an Ephemeral snapshot

For file connector workspaces, you cannot write the destination data to an Ephemeral snapshot.

No post-job scripts

For file connector workspaces, there is no option to run post-job scripts after a job.

You can create webhooks that are triggered by data generation jobs.