About source property mapping

Source property mappings dictate which dimension values are tagged to each record and which property information is available for record search, sort, and display.

Note that before you can map a source property to an Endeca property or dimension, you must have created that Endeca property or dimension.

Source properties can be mapped in three different ways. They can be:

Mapped to an Endeca property (for search, sort, and display only).
Mapped to a dimension (for search, sort, display, and navigation).
Ignored by specifying a null mapping.

You use a property mapper component to establish source property mappings. Typically, the property mapper is placed in the pipeline after the Perl manipulator (if one exists) that is used to clean and prepare source properties. You should use a single property mapper to map all of your source properties to both Endeca properties or dimensions.