Connect Overview
Connect is where you organize your data into collections and manage API sources. Open it by clicking the stack_group icon in the navigation rail; its one secondary-nav item is Overview (/connect/overview).
🎬Opening Connect from the navigation rail.Watch
The Connect area exposes a single Overview page in its secondary navigation.
🎬Connect's secondary navigation: Overview.Watch
The Overview layout
A search box (Search for a collection…) filters your collections.
🎬Search for a collection… filters the collections list.Watch
The orange Create button opens the create menu.
🎬The Create button opens the collection-creation menu.Watch
A Recent Collections section in the sidebar lists collections you've worked with recently.
🎬The Recent Collections sidebar section.Watch
Empty states
On a fresh workspace, the Overview shows helpful empty states. The Collections list reads "No collections found. Create a collection to get started."
🎬The collections empty state on a fresh workspace.Watch
Recent Collections shows "No recent collections found."
🎬The Recent Collections empty state.Watch
API Sources shows "No API sources found. Create an API source to get started."
🎬The API sources empty state.Watch
Info panels
A right-hand panel surfaces your API Key for authenticating requests to the Moltin API.
🎬The API Key info panel.Watch
A Learn & Explore panel links out to documentation about sources and collections.
🎬The Learn & Explore info panel.Watch
Creating a collection
Click Create to open the create menu, which offers Create a new collection (Organize your data sources).
🎬The Create dropdown: Create a new collection.Watch
🎬Press Escape (or click away) to close the dropdown.Watch
Selecting it opens the Create Collection dialog. You can open and dismiss the dialog without creating anything.
🎬The Create Collection prompt.Watch
🎬Opening and closing the Create Collection dialog.Watch
What a collection needs
The Create Collection dialog requires three things before it will submit:
- Name — What would you like to call this collection?
- Vault Provider — defaults to Use Moltin.
- Select Sources — at least one document (Documents tab) or file (Files tab). Submitting with a name only leaves the dialog open and prompts you to select a source.
🎬A name alone isn't enough — you must select at least one source.Watch
Sources must be published documents
Only published documents appear in the collection's Select Sources picker. Publish a document from the document editor (toggle its status to Published) before it can back a collection.
Creating from a published source document
With a published document available, name the collection, pick the document under Select Sources, and click Create Collection — the dialog closes and the new collection appears in your list.