Add a Custom Script

Add a Custom Script

Script Source can be to used to get data from a file, a database, or some other ‘non standard’ format.
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The script source will be treated like any other polling source, DataXchange will run the script on the polling interval set. The script will do whatever it is scripted to do to retrieve and parse data and populate variables that can then be used in DataXchange expressions.
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