Phase 3
(1) See section Top menu bar (mapping).
(2) See section Source structure.
(3) See section Attributes source structure.
(4) See section Target structure.
(5) See section Attributes target structure.
(6) See section Functions.
(7) Shortcut dialogue, see section below. See also section User settings.
(8) See section Save and Cache Profiles.
Shortcut dialogue
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Option |
Description |
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Focus: Source structure |
Focuses the source structure. |
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Focus: Target structure |
Focuses the target structure. |
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Focus: Functions |
To edit selected functions in the target structure. |
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Focus: Edit |
To edit the currently selected component (field, node). |
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Test mapping |
Opens the mapping test dialogue. |
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Restart |
Opens the restart dialogue. |
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Search & find |
Opens the search and find dialogue. |
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Create intermediate version |
Creates an intermediate version of the profile, see (8). |
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New field |
Creates a new field. |
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New node |
Creates a new node. |
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Cut |
Fields/nodes. |
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Copy |
Fields/nodes. |
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Delete |
Fields/nodes. |
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Paste |
Fields/nodes. |
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Find link |
Finds the field from the source structure that is mapped to a selected field in the target structure. |
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Paste including links |
Inserts previously copied fields/nodes with mapping. |
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Paste with field names as fix value |
Inserts previously copied fields/nodes and gives the inserted fields the name of the copied field as a fixed value. Note: The inserted fields all get the data type String. |
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Insert functions |
Inserts previously copied functions. |
Process
As we have already seen, the parser (phase 2) is responsible for filling the source structure with data to create the source tree.
With this, you have generated the basic structure of the data on which the mapping in phase 3 is based. The data is divided into records in the source tree and in each record you have a hierarchical structure of nodes and fields. This is always the first critical design step when you think about what your output data should look like in the end.
The mapper's task is to build a target tree from the source tree.
Starting from the source tree, you have two major design tools to achieve that - records and paths.