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    • August 25, 2008 at 6:40 PM #20499
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        Hi,

        I have an extensive complicated map. With many groups, nodes and functoids. A change has been made to the business logic of the input file and I am forced to create a Choice Group at the top level. Doing this removes all the links in my map.

         

        Hoping someone can point me into the right direction on how i can keep the existing map by modifying it through XML Editor or something like it.

        orginal input schema

        <Schema>

             <HOS>

                 <TransactionGroup>

                 <TenderSummary>

         

        Changed input Schema

        <Schema>

               <HOS>

                    <Group:RecordChoice>

                          <TransactionGroup>

                          <TenderSummary>

        i need to know the logic of the map. So i can to a find a replace if possible.

         

        Thak you and kind regards

        Rob

         

         

      • August 25, 2008 at 7:07 PM #20500
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          Sorry, but I think you will have to rebuild the map by hand [:(].  The only other thing that I could think of would be to open the map in an XML editor and do a find and replace to update all of the XPath statements (make a backup first!).

          Hopefully, someone will correct me.

          • August 25, 2008 at 8:57 PM #20502
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              Thanks. Building by hand seems the way to go. i have been looking at the Map through the XML Editor and I am finding it quite difficult to see where i would put the required entries. There’s no real pattern for the xpath links. They kind of start all over the place.

              • August 25, 2008 at 9:47 PM #20503
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                  Find and replace worked easily when doing it in XML Editor in VS. Wasn’t working when using a different XML Editor.

                   

                  ALL GOOD!

                   

                  • August 26, 2008 at 3:13 AM #20506
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                      Rob,

                      Can you mark ruselw’s reply as the answer?

                      Cheers, Nick.

                      • November 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM #21255
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                          I find it very difficult to believe that Microsoft would make people re-map everything after a change on the schema. I work with health care X12 and the maps are complex and take a long time to complete. There has got to be a way to keep the links. It is very impractical to re-map everything every time we make a change to a source or destination table. Has anyone been able to find a way to keep the links. I have worked with other mapping software and they keep the links after changes to the tables. Therefore, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft did not copy that model as well.

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