Property | Description | |
Mandatory | Specifies whether or not an instance of this field definition is required to exist in the flat file. | |
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True | Indicate the field is required. If you select True and the validate parameter in the pub.flatFile:convertToValues service is set to true, Integration Server generates errors when the field does not exist in a flat file. | |
False | Default. Indicate the field is optional. | |
Note: This property does not apply to field definitions in flat file dictionaries. | ||
Extractor | Location of the data to extract for this field. Click to open the Extractors dialog box and specify an extractor. The extractor works for a field only if field delimiters have been defined for this flat file schema. | |
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Nth Field | Specify the position of the field to extract. Note:Software AG recommends that you use this extractor instead of ID node. | |
ID Node | Specify the position of the field to extract. The ID Node extractor is a variation of the Nth Field extractor and is available for backward compatibility for users of the webMethods Module for EDI. | |
Fixed Position | Specify the start and end positions of the bytes to extract. | |
Note: This property does not apply to field definitions in flat file dictionaries. | ||
Validator | Specifies the type of validator to use to perform validation for the field. Click to open the Validators dialog box and select a validator. | |
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None | Default. Indicate that no validator is used. | |
Length Validator | Specify the maximum and minimum number of characters this field can contain to be considered valid. | |
Byte Length Validator | You specify the maximum and minimum number of bytes this field can contain to be considered valid. Note: Use the byte length validator for multi-byte encoded records. | |
Code List Validator | Specify a comma–separated list of the allowed values for this field. If the value of the field is not contained in the code list, errors will be generated. | |
Format service | Enter the fully-qualified name of the service to use to format data from this field. You can click to navigate to and select a service. | |
Alternate name | Another name for the field definition. When an IS document type is generated from a flat file schema, the alternate name is used as the name of the String field that corresponds to this field definition. | |
Description | Description of the field definition. Note: This property does not apply to a field definition in a composite reference or a record reference. | |
ID Code | IDCode for the field definition. The IDCode is provided in a SEF file and is used by the WmEDI package. | |
Data type | Data type for the field as specified in the SEF file. This information is used by the WmEDI package. | |
Local description | For a field definition in a composite reference or a record reference, specifies a description for the field definition at this particular location in the flat file schema. Note: This property does not apply to field definitions in flat file dictionaries. |