Intent Replication Wizard

Practicing the functions in PDAS may involve many steps across features. It may be hard for our customers to setup the PDAS by themselves, especially for entry-level users. Because there are too many steps to complete, different function Managers to access, and different concepts to learn.

For simplifying the essential flow of replicating intent to ADT for PDAS, Intent Replication Wizard is developed to combine multiple steps inside one main UI, which will reduce the learning demands and let power users do the main operations themselves.

• Seed Intent: Select the seed intent for intent replication and decide what replication mode the intent template applies to.
   
• Define ADT: Create a new ADT or select an existing ADT, then utilize it to accomplish the replication of the seed intent.
  
  

• Replication Settings: Define the qualified device scope for the seed intent template to replicate intent and configure the macro variable values for replicating ADT intents. Also, other advanced replication settings can be made here.
   
• Replicate Intent: Select data fields that will be outputted as columns in the column group, then define the display name or assign tags for each column to finish building or updating the ADT.
   

Tip: After finishing each step, the information about the ”Selection Mode” will be shown at the bottom to record the completed main steps.

Where to Start

The following table lists the entrances for starting the Intent Replication Wizard and the Auto Intent Wizard.

Table 1 - Intent Replication Wizard Entrance

No.	Feature	Description
1	Start Menu
2	Taskbar > intent
3	Intent (view Mode)
4	Intent (Edit Mode)
5	NI Manager
6	NI (Edit Mode) > Replication Logic
7	Map (Map Intent tab)
8	Map (Published Intents tab)
9	Path Browser (Path Intent tab)
10	Search Results