Real Time Information Director User Documentation
    RTID Metadata Language 
Hewlett-Packard Company  2  529618-002   
Record Segments.......................................................................................................35 
RecordSegment .........................................................................................................37 
Segment ....................................................................................................................38 
Inheriting Columns....................................................................................................38 
Segmented Tables .....................................................................................................39 
ParentElement...........................................................................................................39 
QualifiedParentElement.............................................................................................40 
FixedElement ............................................................................................................41 
Concatenating Elements ............................................................................................41 
Splitting Elements .....................................................................................................42 
PredicatedFieldElement.............................................................................................43 
Formatter Classes......................................................................................................44 
Segment Formatter Classes........................................................................................46 
Variant Documents....................................................................................................47 
Aliased Documents ...................................................................................................48 
Substitute Documents................................................................................................49 
Common Characteristics of Variant, Aliased and Substitute Documents....................51 
Considerations for Mapping IDoc Tags.....................................................................51 
Enriching the Data ........................................................................................................51 
SystemKey................................................................................................................52 
Mapping....................................................................................................................53 
Partitioning................................................................................................................54 
InstanceId..................................................................................................................57 
LeftJoin.....................................................................................................................58 
Alias..........................................................................................................................58 
ColumnList ...............................................................................................................58 
OrderBy....................................................................................................................59 
Condition ..................................................................................................................59 
VirtualColumn ..........................................................................................................59 
DeleteRows...............................................................................................................60 
More Metadata Examples..............................................................................................60 
Examples: Enriching Input Data...............................................................................60 
Mapping External to Internal IDs ..............................................................................71 
Writing Enrichments .................................................................................................75 
Comments about the Customization Process..................................................................78 
Index.............................................................................................................................79 










