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Properties: The value of the property selected below will be the value of the
selected field.
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Property: This drop-down lists all the currently defined properties (including
system properties).
Custom properties can be defined in the Preprocessor step; see
"Preprocessor step" on page249.
For an explanation of the objects to which the properties belong, see
"DataMapper Scripts API" on page372.
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Choose a property button: Click this button to open a filter dialog that lets you
find a property based on the first few letters that you type.
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Type: The data type of the selected data; see "Data types" on page279. Make sure that
the data format that the DataMapper expects matches the actual format of the data in the
data source; see "Data Format" on page342.
Settings for location-based fields in a Text file
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Left: Defines the start of the data selection to extract, counting the number of characters
from the left. E.g. 1 means: start with the first character from the left.
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Right: Defines the end of the data selection to extract, counting the number of characters
from the left. E.g. 3 means: stop after the third character from the left.
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Top offset: The vertical offset (the number of lines) from the current pointer location in the
Data Viewer).
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Height: The height of the selection box, in the number of lines. When set to 0, this
instructs the DataMapper to extract all lines starting from the given position until the end of
the record and store them in a single field.
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Use selection: Click to use the value (Left, Right, Top offset and Height) of the current
data selection (in the Data Viewer) for the extraction.
Note
If the selection contains multiple lines, only the first line is extracted.
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Post Function: Enter a JavaScript expression to be run after the extraction.
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