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CloudTDMS Quick Guide

Creating your new CloudTDMS account​

To create a new CloudTDMS account, you'll need to use a unique email address not already used in CloudTDMS or Sign-in with Google or LinkedIn SSO. Go to www.cloudtdms.com/register and enter your information to complete the signup. Check your email to confirm your new account. All set! image info

Creating a new Appplication​

image info Applications are just the containers for all your project's data.

  1. From your Dashboard, Click on Applications
  2. Click on Create new button
  3. Enter required details and click on :
    • Save to simply create your new application
    • Save and Next to create your new application and jump to next step (create a new stream for this application)

Creating a new Stream​

image info Streams are basically the configuration of the data that you want to generate, could be a file, table or object. An application can contain multiple streams.

  1. Click on Add stream button.
  2. Enter required details and click on :
    • Save to simply create your new stream
    • Save and Next to create your new stream and jump to next step (create attributes for this stream)

Defining your Attributes​

image info Attributes are simply the columns in the stream. A stream can contain multiple attributes.

Export a file​

You can export the current file by clicking Export to disk in the menu. You can choose to export the file as plain Markdown, as HTML using a Handlebars template or as a PDF.

  1. Click on the Add attributes button.
  2. Enter the details of your attribute and click on Save button.

Important notes :​

  • Name: This will be the name of the column in SQL table, header in CSV, key in JSON and tag in XML.
  • Category: The Synthetic data category you want to generate data from. For example, if you want to generate Personal data like first/last name , you will select Category as Personal.
  • Provider: The exact data provider you want to generate (i,e : first name)
  • Additional options (blue gear) will allow you to fine tune your data provider (i,e : male only)

Scheduling your Workflow

image info Workflows tells CloudTDMS back-end system that you want to generate data for an application. Assuming you are following the steps from the beginning, you can now create a workflow.

  1. From your Dashboard, Click on your Applications.
  2. On the application view list Click on Create workflow button.
  3. Enter required details for your workflow and click on Save button.
  4. You can get generated data via workflow details or by selecting “Data ➔ Data Generated” in the top navbar menu.