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Data mapping configuration sets the data source to a data mapping configuration.
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%o: Select this to use a dynamic data mapping configuration name. Click on %o to
change the expression that determines the name of the data mapping configuration
to use.
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Alternatively, select a configuration name. Adding configurations to this list is done
through the Send to Workflow option in the Designer module.
Click the Open data model of selected configuration button to view the data
model attached to the chosen configuration in the DataMapper module, to verify that
the right one is used.
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No storing or post-processing of the data records (faster): This option prevents
data from being written to the database. Instead, records are streamed directly into
the Content Creation process for immediate merging. Turning this feature on can
improve data mapping performance significantly, as well as the time required for the
cleanup process. However, since the data is not written to the database, there is no
way to do post-processing on the extracted data. Any post-processors defined in the
data mapping configuration will be disabled.
This option is unchecked by default.
Note
When the data mapping configuration provides multiple records, the preview
is created based on the first record.
Note
The Create Preview PDF plugin cannot pass runtime parameters to a data mapping
configuration. Instead it uses the default values set up in the Preprocessor of the
data mapping configuration.
To work around this issue, insert an Execute Data Mapping task (which does allow
to specify runtime parameters) immediately before the Create Preview PDF plugin;
configure it to output JSON, and use the JSON string option in the Create Preview
PDF plugin.
Other possibilities are to use the "All In One" on page590 task, or to include the
variables in the data file and let the data mapping configuration extract them.
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