About folders

The Integration-Services workbench of each Composer entity comprises Folders, which are similar to standard Windows folders or directories. Folders provide separate, distinct workplaces for storing and defining objects. The existence of independent Folders allows users to group objects together, for example, all the objects related to a single project, or all the objects defined by one user.

The Folder name must be unique in each entity and all object names must be unique within a Folder. For example: Source_Entity_name.Unique_Folder_name.Unique_object_name.

Composer provides two types of Folder:

• Work Folders
  A Work Folder contains all the working components that a user, or a group of users, can modify. It is the only type of Folder in which you can create objects. Although several users can access the same Work Folder simultaneously, only one user can access a given object at a time.
• Prebuilt Folders
  A Prebuilt Folder contains a set of predefined objects imported from another Entity. Objects can only be added to a Prebuilt Folder by the source Entity. You cannot directly modify objects in a Prebuilt Folder. However, you can reuse objects in a Prebuilt Folder by reference, as described in Object dependencies.

Related topics

Working with Folders

Creating Folders