Chapter 12 Creating Mappings

Creating Mappings from the Mapping Editor

The Mapping Editor provides a global view of all the mappings defined for a given model, allowing you to quickly identify mapped and unmapped objects.

You first need to create a data source, and then proceed to create mappings.

To launch the Mapping Editor:

Select Tools→Mapping Editor in your target model (OOM, PDM, CDM or XSM) to open the Mapping Editor.

The Mapping Editor opens and automatically launches the Data Source Creation Wizard if no data source is defined for the model. For detailed information about this wizard, see Creating a data source.

Specify a name, an access type and a model type (if required) for the source from which you will draw your data, and then click Next.

Select one or more models from the list.

Click Next and clear the Create default mappings check box if you do not want to create default mappings between source and target objects with the same name then click Finish.

or

Click Finish if you want to create default mappings.

The wizard closes and the data source is created in the Source pane of the Mapping Editor, which shows default mappings if any.

Mapping Editor video
Click the Play Demo tool in the lower-left corner of the Mapping Editor window to launch a video that briefly illustrates its main features.