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Setting Source Element Mappings Manually

Prerequisites:

You performed the steps in Creating a Practice Process App for Data Mapping.

On the Data Mapping tab of the orchestration workflow Property Editor, you can set the source value for a data element in its Source elements column to use in an orchestration workflow. You can perform this procedure by selecting suggested mappings or by selecting the values manually. You select compatible and incompatible data types manually using the Select a Source popup. Selecting suggested mappings is explained in Setting Source Values Using Suggested Mappings.

Procedure Summary

  1. Select an orchestration workflow to display it in the orchestration workflow editor.
  2. Click the Data Mapping tab of the orchestration workflow Property Editor.
  3. Find a data element for which you want to set a source value, select its Source Elements column, and then click the down arrow.
  4. In the Select a source popup, select the source value or values that you want to map, and then click OK.

In the following exercise, you will manually map the data for Child1 under the PrivateComplex data element to a source value of a compatible data type.

To manually set the source value for a data element:

  1. In App Explorer, select DataMappingOrchWF under the Orchestration Workflows heading.
  2. In the orchestration workflow Property Editor, click the Data Mapping tab.

    The Working Data step input should be visible under the name of the orchestration workflow (DataMappingOrchWF) in the Working data column. (If it is not, click a blank area in the orchestration workflow editor.)

  3. Right-click the Working Data step input, select Add New, and then select String.
  4. Change the name of the new data element (String) to ManualMapping.
  5. Locate the ManualMapping data element, select the corresponding cell in the Source elements column, and then click the down arrow.
  6. In the Select a source popup, under Working Data, expand ArrayContainer and Array[] (3 records), select Array[2], and then click OK.

    DataMappingOrchWorkflow\ArrayContainer\Array[2] is added to the Source elements column.

    This data source is of a compatible data type, as indicated by the message "Compatible type selected" that briefly appears in the box to the left of the Clear button in the Select a Source popup. The Select a Source popup also lets you map incompatible data types or to select multiple data types to map to a single data element, or both. To do this, click the Show advanced options link, and then select the appropriate check box or check boxes.

Related Topics

Using Data Mapping

Setting Default Values

Setting Source Values Using Suggested Mappings

Using the Service Step

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