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About records
A record is a block of information that may be merged with a template to generate a single
document (invoice, email, web page...) for a single recipient. It is part of the record set that is
generated by a data mapping configuration.
In each record, data from the data source can be combined with data coming from other
sources.
Records can be duplicated by setting the number of copies in a script (see "record" on
page421). Duplicates are not shown in the Data Model.
Creating a Data Model
A Data Model is created automatically within each data mapping configuration, but it is empty at
the start. To fill it you could use another Data Model (see "Importing/exporting a Data Model"
below) or start creating a data mapping workflow (see "Data mapping workflow" on page221).
To learn how to add and edit fields, see "Fields" on page272.
Importing/exporting a Data Model
To use a Data Model in another data mapping configuration, or to use it in a Designer template
without a data mapping configuration, you have to export that Data Model and import it into a
data mapping configuration or template.
Importing and exporting Data Models is done from within the Data model Pane, using the top-
right icons and .
For information about the structure of the exported Data Model file, see "Data Model file
structure" on page295.
When you import a Data Model, it appears in the Data Model pane where you can see all the
fields and their types.
Instead of a Data Model file, you can import a JSON file, or a Connect file that contains a Data
Model. The file's data model structure will be displayed in the Data Model pane.
You can delete or add fields, or change their type. Once the Data Model is imported and all the
fields are properly set, all you need to do is extract the information from the active data sample
(see "Extracting data" on page231).
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