Prompt engineering tips for designing and building solutions
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The following guidelines will help you write effective prompts for Orchestrate. Solution design is a conversation, interactive chat. You can provide additional prompts to Orchestrate, make refinements to your requests, and ask Orchestrate clarifying questions.
What to include in your prompts
- Source and destination systems
- Data volumes
- Frequency of execution
- Constraints, such as compliance requirements or authentication
- Downstream consumers
- Relevant Meta Hub business glossaries
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When building Data Hub models, include details about the fields and data types required for the model.
Recommended Practices
- Clearly describe the desired business outcome
- Identify the systems involved (for example, CRM, ERP, HR platforms), or reference Business Glossaries defined in Meta Hub
- Focus each prompt on a single business problem or process
- Use follow-up interactions to iteratively refine the solution, leveraging Orchestrate's conversational design
- Request an explanation of design decisions before proceeding with asset creation
- Develop the solution incrementally, expanding scope in subsequent prompts. For example, you can tell Orchestrate to add or remove components in the solution.
Practices to Avoid
- Providing full requirements documents or large, unstructured text inputs
- Combining multiple objectives into a single, overly complex prompt
- Prescribing specific Boomi products instead of allowing Orchestrate to determine the appropriate components
- Expecting production-ready assets from an initial prompt
- Using internal or domain-specific terminology without sufficient context
Prompt examples
| Category | Example Prompt |
|---|---|
| Customer & Order Operations | "When a customer places an order, update our ERP, notify the warehouse team, and send the customer a confirmation automatically." |
| Customer & Order Operations | "We need to keep customer records in sync across our CRM, billing system, and support portal in real time." |
| Employee & HR | "When a new employee joins, automatically provision their accounts across IT, HR, and payroll systems and notify their manager." |
| Employee & HR | "I want our employees to ask HR questions in plain language and get answers drawn from our company policies and data." |
| Supply Chain & Partners | "Onboard new suppliers by validating their data, setting up secure access to our systems, and alerting the procurement team." |
| Supply Chain & Partners | "Monitor stock levels across our warehouses and automatically trigger reorder requests when inventory falls below threshold." |
| Data & Reporting | "Consolidate sales data from multiple regional systems into a single view so leadership can track pipeline and forecast in one place." |
| Data & Reporting | "When a support ticket is resolved, update the customer record in our CRM and log the outcome in our data warehouse." |
