Name

Description

Name of the field. See also section Naming Conventions for Nodes and Fields. In addition, an optional description can be given. The description also allows you to define fix values for the target structure fields after a 1:1 mapping.

New record if value changes

See the appropriate subsection in section When Does the Parser Start a New Record? A list of fields with this property can be found on page Advanced (Phase 2). There you can also decide how this property is logically linked if it is set in multiple fields. In the structure, this is represented by the icon . See also section Search and Find .

Data type

Data type of the field .

Length

For data with the document type Fixed-length, the value entered here corresponds to the length of the field. For data with the document type CSV, the content of the field is shortened to the length entered here. If the attribute has the value 0, the value of the field is taken over unabridged.

Template

Specifies the format of the input values. This allows different formats for dates or floating-point numbers to be converted into the internal format. An example of a format specification: dd.MM.yy. The format specification Nx.y is intended to convert numerical data in fixed-length files into decimal numbers. Only the number behind the dot (y part) is used, the length of the field is determined by the length specification (4). Example: If the originally read in field value is 0003077, the format specification is N1.2, the data type is Float, then Lobster_data will enter the value 30.77 into the field.

See also section Format Templates for Dates and Times.

Minimum

Maximum

Minimum/maximum number of occurrences of the field in the source tree.