Prerequisites:

Before creating an App DS connection in Canvas Studio, you must specify the bridge URL and the host name of your end application URL in systempreferences.properties file, present in the Canvas Studio Resource JAR (expertctstudioResource.jar) on the app server (e.g. D:\Canvas\apache-tomcat-8.5.9\webapps\expertctstudio\WEB-INF\lib\expertctstudioResource.jar\systempreferences.properties), as shown in the following code snippet:

ENABLE_BRIDGE=Y
# This url used by bridge to connect to application DB

APPLICATION_URL=http://localhost:9072/ctmodelhouse # Provide the Application URL
# This property is for http proxy host

Refer the following sections for detailed information on creating an App DS Connection and Data Source:

Creating an App DS Connection.
Creating an App DS Data Source.

Creating App DS Connection and Data Source

Prerequisites: