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DatamappingconfigurationsareusedintheDesignertohelpaddvariabledatafieldsandper-
sonalizationscriptstoatemplate.Infact,onlyaDataModelwouldsuffice(see"Importing/exportinga
DataModel"onpage261).Theadvantageofadatamappingconfigurationisthatitcontainstheextrac-
tedrecordstomergewiththetemplate,whichletsyoupreviewatemplatewithdatainsteadoffield
names.
ItisalsopossibletogenerateoutputofadatamappingconfigurationdirectlyfromtheDesigner(see
"Generatingoutput"onpage1314).
Ultimatelydatamappingconfigurationsaremeanttobeusedby"OLConnecttasks"onpage169(i.e.
theExecuteDataMappingtaskorAllinOnetask)inOLConnectWorkflowprocesses,toextractdata
fromaparticulartypeofdatafile.Typicallytheextracteddataisthenmergedwithatemplatetogen-
erateoutputintheformofprint,emailand/orawebpage.Tomakethishappen,thedatamappingcon-
figurationaswellasthetemplateandanyPrintPresetshavetobesenttoWorkflow;see"Sendingfiles
toWorkflow"onpage418.
AlternativelythesefilescanbesenttotheConnectServerdirectly;see"SendingfilestoConnect
Serverortoanotherserver"onpage419.
Creating a new data mapping configuration
Anewdatamappingconfigurationcanbemadewithorwithoutawizard.Whenyouopenadatafile
withaDataMapperwizard,thewizardautomaticallydetectsanumberofsettings.Youcanadjustthese
settings.Next,thewizardautomaticallyextractsasmanydatafields(ormetadata,incaseofaPDF/VT
file)asitcan,inoneextractionstep.
Withoutawizardyouhavetomakethesettingsyourself,andconfiguretheextractionworkflowmanu-
ally.
Note: TheDataMapperdoesn’tusethedatasourcedirectly,ratheritusesacopyofthatdata:a
data sample.Althoughthedatasampleisacopy,itisupdatedeachtimethedatamappingcon-
figurationisopenedorwheneverthedatasampleisselected.
MoresamplescanbeaddedviatheSettingspane;see"Datasamples"onpage317.
Fromafile
Tostartcreatingadatamappingconfigurationwithoutawizard,firstselectthedatafile.Therearetwo
waystodothat:fromtheWelcomescreenandfromtheFilemenu.
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FromtheWelcomescreen
1. ClickNew DataMapper Configuration.
2. FromtheFrom a filepaneandselectafiletype:
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