Attribute format restrictions

To enable you to define mapping rules, the PLM attributes and the Microsoft Office attributes must have the same format or must have a conversion in order to facilitate the following matches:


From	To: String	Integer	Date	Real
String	+
Integer	+	+(*)		+(*)
Date	+		+(*)
Real	+			+(*)

Note: + (*) According to regional settings.

The target attribute must be of type string if more than one attribute is mapped to this attribute. The target PLM attribute to which Microsoft Office dimensions are mapped is of type string, because the value and the unit must be concatenated to a string.

The target PLM attribute in a Microsoft Office file-specific rule can have no other general mapping.

Relationship

You can map one Microsoft Office attribute to one PLM attribute, one Microsoft Office attribute to many PLM attributes, or many Microsoft Office attributes to one PLM attribute.