Managing Sources in Scout

Sources allow you to efficiently manage, and automate, document creation and refreshes within collection tables. Sources leverage integrations, webscraping and cron jobs to keep your tables’ documents up to date.

Creating Sources

Inside any collection, click “Sources” in the nav at the top, then click “Add Source”. You’ll see a few different options, and we’re constantly adding more. Reach out to us on Slack and let us know if you want us to build a new type of source sync.

Source Mappings

Each Source may have slightly different return values; ensure you’ve created adequate columns in your table depending on your use case.

You can add columns to the table by clicking the ”+” button in the table header row.

Then, using a Website Crawl source as an example, you will need to map the return values into each column within your table.

Source Sync Frequency

Setting a frequency on a source is optional - you can toggle it on within the Frequency section. You can choose to run the source sync once manually, or you can set a frequency at which the source sync should run. This is a great way to ensure that tables stay up to date as content changes from the source.

Source Sync History and Settings

Once you’ve created and run a source, you can click the “Sources” button in the upper nav to view your sources.

You can click any of your sources to edit the configurations, or view detailed logs of the source sync history.

Manually Running Source Syncs

Inside any source, you can choose to manually run the source sync or rerun any job.