Define Structures and Fields for Delimited or Fixed Width Templates

Review the steps in the process.

Manually define the structures to be written to the file and the fields included in each structure on the Structure and Structure Field page.

The registration of structures and fields for Delimited and Fixed Width templates follows the same process.

To register structures and fields for a template on the General tab of the Vertical View of the Template page:

  1. Click Define.

    NOTE: Each structure will have its own view defined when mapped to a process and will be written to its own line in the file. If one complete record has five lines to be written to the file, create five structures. 

    View the field descriptions for the Structure page.

  2. Click Add.

  3. Enter a value in PRIORITY.

    NOTE: The priority is the order in which the line will be written to the file.

  4. Enter a structure name in NAME.

  5. Enter details about what type of data should be mapped to the structure in DESCRIPTION.

  6. Click Save.

  7. Click the Fields icon.

    NOTE:  A field is a unique piece of data that will be written to the file when the template is posted via a process. 

  8. Enter a value in PRIORITY.

    NOTE: The priority of a field is the order in which the field will appear in the file. 

  9. Enter a field name in NAME.

  10. Enter details about the field in DESCRIPTION. 

  11. Enter a value in LENGTH.

    NOTE: This field does not display for Delimited templates. For Fixed Width template types, this data is required for each field in the structure.

  12. Click Save.

    NOTE: The Fields icon displays the number of fields added to each structure.

  13. Navigate to the Template page Vertical View.

  14. Click Documentation tab.

  15. Click Report.

  16. Verify the structures and fields have been added to the template correctly.