Resource Materials

Some functionality can be used in various places throughout STEP, as described in the links below:

  • Client Environment Recommendations is one of the technical infrastructure data gathering methodologies and performance recommendations here.

  • Common Use Cases explains how to configure components to work together to manage your data here.

  • Email from STEP configuration allows you to deliver data, error reports, and messages via a standard mail server or a mail server with TLS (Transport Layer Security) here.

  • Error Handling Recommended Practices provides guidelines for the purposes of writing better code, better supportability, and better security here.

  • Externally Used Open Source Components is specific to the deduplication functionality for Customer & Supplier MDM here.

  • Function Editor provides an interface to insert STEP functions when writing functions manually, or when creating complex functions using predefined template(s) here.

  • Functional Testing provides a guide to testing your own STEP development and validating new STEP versions here.

  • Historic Reporting explains how to use a business function and the REST API V2 functionality for auditing purposes here.

  • In-Memory Database Component for STEP loads all vital data into the application server RAM on start-up, greatly reducing expensive disk reads and network latency here.

  • JavaScript in STEP explains how JavaScript and the Scripting API allow you to create complex functions in STEP here.

  • Migration covers different migrations that may need to be done to keep your system up and running and to ensure a seamless transition when upgrading to newer versions of STEP and/or its components here.

  • Regular Expression provides a way for users to describe patterns that can be matched by text here.

  • STEP Functions provide access to STEP data and can be combined with static text and comments to display a generated result as a value here.

  • Training and Community Resources gives customers and partners details and links to Stibo Systems Academy and Community resources here.

  • Transformation Lookup Tables are a type of asset in STEP where a defined set of From-To text mappings allows the 'from' text to be replaced with the 'to' text here.

  • Transformations define the ways data can be modified upon import or export, or within STEP when viewing a value here.

  • Updating SaaS Environments with Custom Extensions covers updating SaaS environments with extensions to keep your system up and running and to ensure a seamless transition when upgrading to newer versions of STEP and/or its components here.