Chapter 10 Building Data Transformation Diagrams


Action General tab

The General tab contains the following properties:

Property Description
Name The name of the item which should be clear and meaningful, and should convey the item's purpose to non-technical users.
Code The technical name of the item used for generating code or scripts, which may be abbreviated, and should not generally include spaces.
Comment Descriptive comment for the action.
Stereotype Extends the semantics of an object derived from existing objects but specific to your needs. You can type stereotypes directly in the Stereotype box of the object property sheet or select a value from the list if you have previously defined stereotypes in an embedded or imported extended model definition (.XEM).
Mode [Data lookup only]

Defines the type of the map of values:
Database, which triggers the display of the Script tab. The map comes from the execution of a query
Predefined, which triggers the display of the Map Values tab. The map is entirely defined in the data lookup property sheet.
Source column [Data lookup only]
Source column value to replace.
Target column [Data lookup only]
Target column which contains the resulting value

 


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