Creating graphical mapping from the Mappings menu

  1. Select Connect > Mappings.
    A list of existing mappings is displayed.
  2. Click Add and select Graphical Mapping.
    The Mapping details page is displayed.
  3. Specify these properties for the new mapping:
    Name
    The name of the new mapping
    Description
    A description of the mapping (optional)
    Source
    The document to map from. Use Browse to select a document. The document must be available in the Registry.
    Target
    The document to map to. Click Browse to select a document. The document must be available in the Registry.
  4. Configure the mapping.
    1. Click the Configuration tab.
    2. Change these properties if required:
      • Disable Data Type Casting.
      • Disable Allow Mapping Multi-occurrence Elements to Single-occurrence Elements.
      • Disable Allow Mapping Optional Elements to Mandatory Elements.
      • Enable Remove Namespaces from resulting XML
      • Enable Omit Empty Output Tags
      • Disable Smart Matching.
      • Adjust the minimum match probability.
    3. Return to Graphical Mapping from the Configuration tab.
  5. Model a graphical mapping between source and target document.
  6. Save the mapping.
  7. Click the XSLT Edit tab and review the XSLT that is generated by the graphical mapping.
  8. Click the Testing tab and load a representative XML document.
  9. Click Format to format the input. Test the XSLT that is generated.
  10. Click Preview to test the mapping.
  11. To format the test result, click Format.
    After a mapping is completed, for example it contains no Error notifications, your mapping is ready for use in a data flow. When you activate the data flow, the ION Service uses the XSLT generated by the mapping. Click USAGE to show the list of data flows where the mapping is used.