About iWay Transformer

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iWay Transformer offers integrated data transformation services within iWay Service Manager. It provides support for creating, modifying, and publishing Transform components.

A graphical tool called Mapping Builder provides design services for specifying and defining transformations. It establishes mapping rules and relationships within your output document, based on the input structure if required. You can test the Transform by executing it with an actual input document to see the results. When you confirm that the Transform is stable, you can publish it, making it available to iWay Service Manager.

The main facilities within iWay Transformer are Mapping Builder, Dictionary Builder, Template Viewer, and Test Results.

Mapping Builder

Mapping Builder is a graphical editor that enables you to manage the rules or mappings of your transformations. It is identified by the Mappings tab and allows you to navigate through the input and output side of a transformation, and design mapping rules for it using an extensive set of customizable tools.

You can quickly and easily accomplish mappings between individual structure nodes of the input (incoming) document and the output (outgoing) document using drag and drop operations. The Mapping Builder interface supports one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one mapping relationships, referring to the fields in the input and output documents, respectively. It also supports a set of functions that enable various forms of data manipulation.

The following image shows the Mapping Builder.

For more information, see Working With Mapping Builder.

Dictionary Builder

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Dictionary Builder is a graphical editor that is integrated with iWay Transformer. Dictionary Builder provides an interface for creating and modifying e-business metadata currently supported by the iWay framework as a data dictionary component of a Transform project and by stand-alone Ebixes.

A dictionary is a metadata representation that describes the structure of a transaction or a document that is used in EDI, SWIFT, or proprietary formatted message.

Dictionary Builder is an efficient interface that you can use in EDI, SWIFT, or proprietary format message solutions for composing, editing, and distributing e-business metadata in the form of Ebixes or Transform data dictionary components. Dictionary Builder in iWay Transformer contains the following management facilities:

You can use the Dictionary Builder interface to browse, in a structured way, all the components of e-business data dictionaries. You can access the Dictionary Builder interface in iWay Transformer, as follows.

Procedure: How to Access Dictionary Builder

  1. Open a Transform project (.gxp) that uses a dictionary of supported data formats for its input or output, as shown in the following image.
  2. Open an Ebix Entry project (.ebx), as shown in the following image.

Template Viewer

Template Viewer provides a read-only view of a Transform template, as an XML representation of a Transform component. It is identified by the View Template tab, as shown in the following image.

Test Results

Test Results displays the output document that is generated by a transformation. It is identified by the Test Results tab, as shown in the following image.


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