eiConsole v.24R1
Tutorial
eiConsole Foundation Tutorial
An Introduction to Source Transformation with Data Mapping
You will need to navigate to the Working Directory c:\Users\{USER _NAME}\PilotFish eiConsole Working Directories\Foundation where {USER_NAME} is the user’s name which was included in the sample files you downloaded in the first Foundation Tutorial – Creating a Working Directory.
Note: The Tutorials in eiConsole Foundation, 1-13, are modular and are designed to be used in the sequence presented.
Next, the eiConsole’s Data Mapper opens. We’ll use the Data Mapper to define the logical mapping between the flat file Source and the XML standard Target. When you open the Data Mapper, you will see 3 panels. The panel on the left represents the logical structure of the Source data. The panel on the right represents the logical structure of the Target data. The panel in the middle generates the logical mapping between the two.
To load in the Source format, choose the Open source format icon (shown above).
Select Flat File and double-click. This will allow you to leverage the file specification created in the File Spec Editor to populate the tree on the left-hand side of the screen.
When the Select Format dialogue opens, click Add.
Navigate to your working directory. Select the “formats” folder.
Underneath that folder, you will find the FlatFileToXML folder. Select the FlatFileToXML folder and double-click to open it. This contains the file specification that you created in the previous tutorial. Select FlatFileSpec.xml and click Open.
When the Select Format dialogue opens, click Read Format.
The left-hand side of the tree (the Source System) is populated with the logical structure of your inbound tab-delimited file.
To expand the tree, double-click on the Record node.
Choose the Open Target format icon on the right to do the same with the Target format.
This time, read the Target format from an XML schema. Then, in the Select Format dialogue from the drop-down menu, select and double-click the XSD (Schema).
When the Select Format dialog opens, you will be prompted to select a schema file. Click Browse.
Navigate to c:\Users\{USER _NAME}\PilotFish eiConsole Working Directories\Foundation\data folder or the location of the sample folder of your distribution. Double-click to open it.
The data folder will include an XML schema that describes a standard mechanism for expressing a photo album as XML – the photo-album.xsd file. Select the file and then click Open.
When the Select Format dialogue opens again, click Read Format.
The tree on the right now represents the logical structure of the XML format that you would like to output.
Double-click the nodes including Picture+, Photographer and LocationTaken to fully expand the tree. You will need the tree fully expanded to do your mapping.
You’ll now create the mapping between the two. To start this mapping, select the “Mapping” tab in the Data Mapper, then you’ll need to create the structural format of the output. To do this, you want to create one logical structure for each inbound Data Element, which is the root element of the XMLized flat data.
To begin, drag & drop the XCSData element (Source, left column) onto the stylesheet XSLT element (center panel). The blue XCSData element will now appear below the stylesheet element, as shown above.
Note: The red V that appears on your node indicates a mapped element.
You’ll want to drag & drop your element on top of the style sheet element so that you see the gray bar above it and then release it. If you make a mistake, you can delete mapping elements by right-clicking and selecting “Delete” from the context menu.
At the root of the output (green elements in the right panel), select the PhotoAlbum tag. Then, drag & drop this tag onto the XCSData element in the middle panel.
You will also want to add a Title. Drag & drop the Title element from the right column (target) onto the PhotoAlbum element in the middle panel. When done, it should look like the above mapping.
Now you will have a number of records in the inbound file, each of which needs to be mapped to a picture element in the XML output. To handle this looping structure, use the XSLT palette (above the main mapping panel).
Select the Flow Control tab in the XSLT palette. Next, drag & drop the for-each element onto the PhotoAlbum element. You’ll now see the blue for-each element added to the mapping.
Note: The XSLT palette of structures and functions at the top allows you to do anything you can do by programming via the eiConsole’s drag & drop process.
Next, you will want to iterate over each inbound record. Select Record from the source and drag & drop it onto the [@select] element.
Note: Elements are placed at valid locations automatically when mapped.
For each Record, you will want to generate a Picture element. Drag & drop the green Picture+ element from the tree on the right panel onto the blue for-each element in the middle panel.
For each Picture, include a Title, FileName and Photographer element. Drag & drop Title, FileName, and Photographer from the right panel onto the Picture element.
Note: You can do this one at a time or as a group.
Underneath Photographer, you will want to include the FirstName and LastName. You can drag & drop these elements individually or together onto Photographer.
You will also include some aspects of the address of the Photographer. Drag & drop Address onto Photographer. For the next mapping, you will need to expand this Address node.
Then drag & drop Address 1, City and State onto Address. When finished, all will show red Vs on the nodes. Your mapping should now look like the above screen.
Next, include 2 phone numbers for the Photographer: home and work. Drag & drop PhoneNumber onto Photographer twice. Notice that they appear at the end of your mapping.
Next, drag & drop the type attribute (found under PhoneNumber in the Target format) on top of both PhoneNumbers in the mapping. To view the Type attribute, you will need to expand the target tree by clicking the PhoneNumber node. Your mapping should now look like the mapping image above.
You will also want to add information about where the photograph was taken. Drag & drop the LocationTaken element onto Picture. Notice the element is placed automatically at the valid location, in this instance under the Type element at the very bottom of the mapping.
Then drop City and Country (from under LocationTaken in the Target format) to LocationTaken in the mapping.
You have now created the structure that you will populate from values in the Source. The next step is to associate Source fields with Target data elements.
Click the Record node in the Source panel to expand the tree. The first information to map falls under Picture in the mapping (center panel). Next, you will map Photo-Name to Title. Then drag & drop Photo-Name from the source format (left panel) onto Title in the mapping. You will see the blue element appear underneath the green Title and blue Photo-Name elements.
Create a similar association between File-Name in the target and File-Name in the mapping.
From the Source, drag & drop Photographer-First on top of FirstName (under Photographer), then drag & drop Photographer-Last on top of LastName (under Photographer) in the center panel.
From the Source, drag & drop Address on top of Address1 in the mapping. Also, from the Source, drag & drop City on top of City, and State on top of State.
There are 2 phone number elements to map: Home and Work. First, you will need to scroll down to the bottom of the center panel to access the elements. Next, drag & drop the Home-Phone element from the source to the first PhoneNumber in the map and the Work-Phone element from the source to the second PhoneNumber in the map. Your mapping should now look like the above.
For LocationTaken in the mapping, map Dive-Site from the source to the City and Dive-Country from the source to the Country. Leave Dive-Depth unmapped. (You may have to scroll to gain access to these elements.) Your mapping should now look like the image above when you are done.
You have now mapped values from the Source onto values from the Target. Several text constants need to be added to clarify the meaning of various fields. For example, Title is unmapped. Scroll up in the center panel—right-click on Title and select Add Text Constant from the drop-down menu.
When the Please set constant value dialogue panel opens, enter “My Photo Album” and click OK.
The result should look like the screenshot above.
Now, scroll down to the PhoneNumber section of the mapping. You will see the type attribute, which indicates the type of phone number that each PhoneNumber element represents. Double-click the first PhoneNumber type attribute. Next, in the Value text box, enter 'H' to represent Home (Use a capital H and make sure you use single quotes) and hit return.
Do the same for the Work PhoneNumber. In the character box enter 'W' and hit return.
When you are done, your mapping should look like the above.
Your logical data map is now complete. Hit the Save icon at the top of the screen.
When the Save File dialogue opens enter “PhotoAlbumFlatXMLToStandardXML” and click OK.
Now you are ready to move on to the next tutorial, Routing and Transaction Monitoring. Click the Return to Console icon at the very top.