Adding connections between input and output elements

Use the Graphical Data Mapping editor to create connections between the input and output objects in your message map.

You can create a connection in a message map by using one of the following methods:

• Move the cursor anywhere over the required element in the input object, then click and drag the connection over the required output element and drop. You can also create the connection from the opposite direction, by dragging the connection from the output element to the input element. You can also use the grab handle that appears when you hover over an element to click and drag the connection.
  Note: When you drag and drop a connection from an input element to an output element, a transform is added automatically. To add the transform, you must drop the connection above the lowest point of the input and output message. If you use this method in a nested map, you must drop the connection above the lowest point of the shaded area.

   

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• Select the appropriate input or output object and right-click to display the context menu, then select Quick Link. An outline view of the opposite data structure is displayed; if the Quick Link action is invoked on an input object, a quick outline view of the output data structure is shown, and if the action is invoked on an output object, a quick outline view of the input data structure is shown. You can then use the quick outline view and its built-in filter to find and select the required element. When you have selected the required element, a transform is created in the Graphical Data Mapping editor.
• Select the required input element and right-click to display the context menu, then select Add Connection. This method allows you to carry out other actions in the editor that require the use of mouse clicks (such as expanding output elements, or using the scroll bars) while a transform is being created.
• Some transformations, such as the Assign transform, require a connection to an output object, but not to an input object. You can create these transformations either by invoking the Add Connection action, or by clicking anywhere on the output object or on its grab handle icon and then dragging the connection onto the empty space between the input and output objects.