TIBCO BW

                 Concepts of Mapping in Tibco BW

Mapping in Tibco BW plays a very important part in transformation and data representation. Mapping is realized with the help of a mapper activity and it consists of different choices.

Surround with Choice :

• You can apply When conditions during mapping the elements.
• At run time, when you want to map contents dynamically from various activities output.

Surround with if:

• Surround with if allows you to apply if conditions while mapping.
• When input to a element is null, then it is expected pass NULL string else we need keep the non-null data which is coming in.

Surround with for-each:

• When a repeating elements needs to be mapped to repeating elements in input
• Its Many to Many mapping.

Surround with for-each group:

• It is similar to Surround with for-each, but needs a grouping element.
• For example, Each Department has Sub department, Each Sub department has products and each has its own name and rate.

Duplicate:

• It is used to merge the Same set of mappings

Copy Of:

• When the Mapping structure of an output activity exactly similar to input activity.
• All the names should match exactly