About this guide

This guide describes how to use and manage the Business Document Mapper client tool. This tool is a component within the Infor Enterprise Collaborator product.

This guide is not to be used as a complete self-study guide on how to learn to use the Business Document Mapper client tool and all its concepts. The reader is expected to have sufficient back-ground knowledge.

For brevity, use these guidelines to refer to products mentioned in this installation guide:

• Business Document Mapper tool - BDM or Mapper.

  Also known as "Mapping Manager". This is the Mapping Manager client tool.

• Infor Enterprise Collaborator - IEC or EC.

  This is the product containing the EC Server and EC Client Tools. Business Document Mapper is one of the EC client tools.

• Partner Administration tool - PA or Partner Admin. This is an EC client tool.

• Flat File Definition tool - FFD, this is an EC client tool.

• Infor ION Grid - Grid

• Lifecycle Manager - LCM

• Business Engine - BE

• UVJ function - User defined Void Java function

• UBJ function - User defined Boolean Java function

• REP function - Repository function

• Mapper Database - The database repository for mappings.

  For ION this is one of the repositories. For IEC it is the EC database.

• Mapper Server - The server where you generate, publish, and run mappings. For ION, this is part of ION Runtime Services. For IEC, it is part of the EC server.