Orbit connect

Orbit connect gives you the ability to upload, define, build, and then access your Orbit system using your own data (supplied as delimited text files).

• Prerequisites and logging in

The Orbit connect includes three key areas:

• Data sources

• Table definitions

• System builds

Capabilities and restrictions

Orbit connect is a new feature, and as such has a number of capabilities and restrictions, which you can see in the overview below. These capabilities will impove over time through interative development, reducing the impact of the restrictions.

Capabilities	Restrictions
Log into an empty Orbit environment to access the Orbit data loader.	Currently delivered via Apteco Cloud only
Create data sources by uploading, previewing, and importing multiple delimited text files one at a time.	It is restricted to 10 tables
Define table(s) from those data sources, choosing how the data will be represented by specifying variable types.	Joins and transactions are the only relationships currently available
(For selector variables) Choose between the automatic detection of values or use other data sources to apply meaningful descriptions to the data. For example, 1, 2, 3, 4 might be shown as None, Bronze, Silver, Gold etc. via a decode mechanism.	Data updates, system builds and deployments are manual operations
Define a system using multiple tables.
Build, review, adjust, deploy, and then access the resulting system in Orbit.