This dialog contains a Mappings table, and options to create new,
modify, or remove mappings.
Option
Description
Mappings table
This table displays all of the source
property mappings that have been defined for the project. It includes the
following columns:
Source: The
source property to be mapped.
Target: The
dimension or Endeca property that the source property will be mapped to.
Match mode:
For dimension mappings, indicates the type of match mode used.
Normal
Normal maps only those source property values that
have a matching dimension value explicitly defined in the dimension hierarchy.
Forge assigns the IDs for any matching dimension values to the Endeca records.
Any source property values that do not have matching dimension values in the
dimension hierarchy are ignored.
In order for a source property value to match a
dimension value, the dimension value's definition must contain a synonym that:
Is an exact
text match, including capitalization and white space, to the source property
value.
Has its
Classify option enabled.
Note
There are two types of advanced dimension values,
range and sift. These dimension value types have different matching criteria
than standard dimension values. See About range dimension values and About sift
dimensions, respectively.
Must Match
Must Match behaves identically to Normal, with the
exception that Must Match issues a warning for any source property values that
do not have matching dimension values.
Auto Generate
Auto Generate specifies that Forge automatically
generates a dimension value name and ID for any source property value that does
not have a matching dimension value in the dimension hierarchy. Forge uses
these automatically-generated names and IDs to tag the Endeca records the same
as it would explicitly-defined dimension values.
Auto Generate dramatically reduces the amount of
editing you have to do to the dimension hierarchy. However, auto-generated
dimensions are always flat. Auto-generated names and IDs are persisted in a
file that you specify as part of a dimension server component.
New
Click to create a new mapping of one of the following
types:
Null Mapping:
Indicates that the source property should be ignored during mapping.
Property
Mapping: Maps the source property to an Endeca property.
Dimension
Mapping: Maps the source property to a dimension.
Modify
Used to modify an existing mapping. To modify a mapping:
