Creating an Area
An area is a way to associate an arbitrary string with a given record. For example, you may have an address record that needs to specify the shipping address in the document header, but needs to specify the billing address in the document detail. To differentiate these two records, you would create "Header" and "Detail" areas.
Note: Areas are used primarily for EDI document parsing.
To create an area
1. In the Package Navigator view of Designer, open the flat file schema to which you want to add an area.
2. In the Properties view in the Settings area, click 
next to Areas. 3. Click 
to add a new area to the flat file schema. Click 
to insert a new area in a specific location in the schema. Click 
to delete an existing area. 4. Save the flat file schema.