Through the Extension Manager section, you can add more types to Aspire. It is possible to extend the types to the following components categories:

• Connectors: Available for Seeds, Connector Instances, Credentials, and Connections.
• Applications: Available on Workflows, under the 'Applications' category.
• Publishers: Available on Workflows, under the 'Publishers' category.

The DXF Playground has different sections to use or get to know about:

• DXF Sandbox.
• System Properties.
• Writing DXF.
• Rendered DXF.
• Copy DXF.
• Initial Configuration.
• Current Configuration.
• DXF Palette.

Configurations

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1. On the Aspire Admin UI, go to the tools tab (expand the tab). Image Modified
2. Go to the DXF Playground Extension Manager tab. Image Removed
3. DXF Sandbox:  Write and test the DXF.
4. System Properties: This section is used for mocking system properties, is useful when you are using the 'sysConfig' control to show sections depending on system properties.
   Note: You can define multiple properties using a semicolon (;)
5. Write DXF: Write your own DXF form.
6. Rendered DXF:  In this section you can see how the DXF will look like when rendered.
7. Copy DXF: Copies the current DXF to the clipboard.
8. Initial Configuration: Show the initial values of the rendered dxf, when it is rendered.
9. Current Configuration: Show the current values of the rendered dxf.
10. DXF Palette: If you don't know how to use a specific DXF control, click here so you can see examples of each available DXF control and the available validations for them.
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12. Click on “new button”. Image Added
13. Type name:  Description to the new extension. This description will appear on the type of selector on the other pages.
    
14. Extension type: Choose the category for new extension.
15. Maven coordinates: Maven coordinates corresponding to the new extension type. The maven coordinates must not include the version, since it should be defined in the Aspire settings. For example, the publisher extension is com.accenture.aspire:aspire-saga-entity-publisher-source.

After creating the new extension type, you can click on any of these to see the list of installed extensions of the corresponding type.

How To Use

Once time the extension was created, you can use it in Workflow section in Aspire.

1. To search the new extension, go to Workflow tab.Image Added
2. Open the specify workflow to add the new component. After that, go to search panel (right part).
3. Search by the name that was added in Extension Manager (e.g. Saga Publisher) or search by type (e.g. Publisher). 
4. Drag the component and configure it.