Teiid Connection lacks a way to define importer properties ---------------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-1911 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-1911 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Import/Export Reporter: Ramesh Reddy In Teiid Connection importer, it lacks a way to define the "import" properties that makes usage cumbersome for user to define to import specific parts of schema, or sometimes impossible (see TEIID-1905) basically, when user chooses the "translator", after they should be able define some custom key/value pairs as properties, when then should be converted as model import properties in "importVDB-vdb.xml" file. Some sample properties are defined here https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/TEIID/JDBC+Translator see "importer" properties. Do not confuse similar "execution properties" which are translator overrides. The sample vdb is like this {code} <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <vdb name="hive" version="1"> <description>Shows how to query HiveVDB using Hive</description> <property name="UseConnectorMetadata" value="cached"/> <model name="hive"> <property name="importer.trimColumnNames" value="true"/> <source name="Hive conector" translator-name="hive" connection-jndi-name="java:/hive-ds"/> </model> </vdb> {code} As per GUI concerned it should be added in "Select the translator and target model" panel, after the selection of translator