Understanding how applications connect to ION

The Infor Cloud team has created connection points in ION Desk for each of your Infor cloud applications that use ION. You cannot modify these connection points, but you can add to the list of documents that can be sent or received by the connection point.

In an integration between two BOD-enabled applications, document flows are set up to define the BODs that flow between the application connection points. A document flow is a type of data flow.

See BODs used in integrations with Workforce Management.

A connection point can be reused in one or more data flows. See the section on ION Connect Modeling in the Infor ION Desk User Guide – Cloud Edition for additional information about connection points and data flows.

In a connection point, if you remove a document that is used in a document flow, an error is shown in the document flow messages pane.

You cannot activate connection points separately. When you activate a data flow, the associated connection points are activated.