Before you transform a source record into an Endeca record, you must do one of three things to each of the source record’s properties:
Map the source property to an Endeca dimension.
Mapping a source property to a dimension tags the Endeca record with a dimension value from that dimension.
Map the source property to an Endeca property.
The values of Endeca properties are descriptive information that can be displayed with a record when a user has accessed the record though guided search or by navigation. Note that Endeca properties cannot be used to classify records or to navigate to them.
Decide to ignore the source property (for using it in navigation).
If a source property does not contain information suitable for navigation, search, or display, you can instruct your Guided Search implementation to ignore it during the data transformation process.
When all the properties of a source record have been mapped, the source record can be transformed into an Endeca record consisting of Endeca properties and Endeca dimensions.
