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Importing and Exporting Data Models is done from within the Data model Pane, using the top-
right icons and .
Rules for importing:
l Imported Data Model fields always overwrite existing field properties when the field name
is the same. Non-existent fields are created automatically with the appropriate field
settings. The import is case-insensitive, so fields with a different case will be ignored.
l All data model fields are tagged with the Asterisk (*). If overwriting an existing data model,
existing data model fields that are not in the imported data model file will have their
asterisks removed.
Dynamically Added Fields
There are a number of instances where data needs to be added to the data model after the
initial data mapping operation has been performed. For instance, you might need to add a
cleansed postal address next to the original address. Or use a Workflow process to retrieve a
value from a Database and add it to the data record. However, the data model is not extensible.
Once a data record has been created, the contents of its fields can be updated but not its
structure.
A new Extradata field is automatically created at every level of each data record. That means
the record itself gets an Extradata field, and each detail table also gets one.
This is what it looks like from the Designer interface:
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