Data Transformation Engine Type Designer Reference Guide

Chapter 8 - Components Defining Components
Complete Type Name
The complete name of a group appears in the title bar of its window. A type’s
complete name is similar to a path name, beginning at the type and including all
types in the path up to the root. Spaces appear between types in a complete type
name.
The type Name Field Data would look like this in the tree:
The type NameField Data would look like this in the tree:
You may have duplicate type names as long as they are not on the same level.
Each type has a unique complete name, so there is no doubt as to which particular
type is being referenced.
For example, in the following tree, the type Message appears twice. One type is
Message Field; the other is Message Set. Each Message type has a unique
complete name.
Relative Type Names
A component name is similar to a relative path name. Component names exclude
types that the defined type and component type have in common in their
complete names.
The relative type name excludes the names that appear in the complete names of
both the type and the component type. Therefore, because ROOT is included in
Message Field Data
Message Set Data