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Magic number: Determines the tolerance factor for all of the above values. The tolerance
is meant to avoid rounding errors. If two values are more than 70% away from each other,
they are considered distinct; otherwise they are the same. For example, if two characters
have a space of exactly the width of the average character, any space of between 0.7 and
1.43 of this average width is considered one space. A space of 1.44 is considered to be 2
spaces.
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PDF file color space: Determines if the PDF if displayed in Color or Monochrome in the
Data Viewer. Monochrome display is faster in the Data Viewer. This has no influence on
the actual data extraction or the data mapping performance.
Database Input Data settings
Databases all return the same type of information. Therefore the Input Data options for a
database refer to the database itself instead of to the data.
The following settings apply to any database or ODBC Data Sample.
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Connection String: Displays the connection string used to access the Data Source.
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Table: Displays the tables and stored procedures available in the database. The selected
table is the one the data is extracted from. Clicking on any of the tables shows the first line
of the data in that table.
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Encoding: Defines what encoding is used to read the Data Source (US-ASCII, ISO-
8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE ).
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Browse button : Opens the Edit Database configuration dialog, which can replace
the existing database data source with a new one. This is the same as using the Replace
feature in the Data Samples window.
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Custom SQL button : Click to open the SQL Query Designer (see "Example" on
page338) and type in a custom SQL query. If the database supports stored procedures,
including inner joins, grouping and sorting, you can use custom SQL to make a selection
from the database, using whatever language the database supports.
The query may contain variables and properties, so that the selection will be dynamically
adjusted each time the data mapping configuration is actually used in a Workflow
process; see "Using variables and properties in an SQL query" on page337.
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Skip empty lines: Ignore any row that has no content, e.g. only nulls or empty strings.
Note that spaces are characters and thus considered content.
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