After you have created, configured, and validated a connector, you can publish the connector for use.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have created a custom connector. See Create custom connector.

Procedure

  1. Log in to your Control Room.
  2. Go to Manage > Packages.
  3. On the Packages page, click the Connectors tab.
  4. From the Connectors tab, select the connector that you want to publish.
  5. Hover over the vertical ellipsis menu to expand and click the Publish package icon.

    The publishing process starts and the Status of the connector changes to Publishing in the Connectors tab.

    When you publish a package for the first time, the package is automatically assigned the default version 1.0.0.

    When you publish the connector as a package, the package is marked and signed as headless where the back-end APIs provide access to features and services. After the package is published, the package is available in the Bot editor and API Task editor.

After the connector is published as a package, the package moves to the Published tab.

The Published tab displays packages that are pre-installed with the Control Room and custom-built using the Package SDK or Connector Builder. For the Packages published by the Connector Builder, the Created from column shows Connector whereas the packages built using the Package SDK or that are pre-installed show as SDK.

You will receive notifications depending on the type of events that you have enabled after publishing a connector. For more information, see Enable or disable event categories.

Note: Publishing a connector with error fails. A notification with information about the error appears in the Control Room Notifications. The Audit log is also updated with the error message. Use the information to fix the error and then republish the connector.

For more information about packages, see Packages