Field Definition Properties

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.