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Design Server
The documentation provided here describes how to use the Design Server.
Schema designer
Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
Components
Components are required for group types

Design Server
The documentation provided here describes how to use the Design Server.
- Projects
  This documentation describes Design Server projects.
- Schemas
- Maps
- Flows
  A flow node invokes a sub flow within a flow. Sub-flows need not be wired to other nodes; it is valid to have a flow that is comprised of multiple sub-flows that each have listeners.
- Using Design Server
  How to use the HCL Link Design Server.
- Flows
  This documentation describes how Flows can be run from REST API, listeners, or they can be scheduled.
- Schema designer
  Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - About schemas
    A schema defines the contents of at least one input that you intend to map or one output you intend to map.
  - Subtypes
  - Schema hierarchy
  - Defining data
  - Objects, types, and classes
  - Testing part of a schema
    You can test a schema by generating test data for an item or a group. The schema designer creates source and compiled maps that generate and validate the test data. The test-data-generation map automatically runs and produces a text file with the sample data. After that, the test-data-validation map automatically runs on the sample data file.
  - Type properties
  - Item restrictions
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Error detection
  - Error recovery
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Return codes and error messages

Components are required for group types

Categories and groups can have components. Components of group and category types display in the group and category views. Item types do not have components.

Group types represent actual data objects, so groups must have components. The one exception is a partitioned group which is explained in "Partitioning".

By contrast, a category is used for organizing types and for type property inheritance reasons. Categories do not define actual data objects in detail. A category does not need components.

Each group must have at least one component, unless it is partitioned.

Link supports large metadata. It supports more than 65,536 types and 65,536 components in a single schema. To reduce the number of types that maps that use large schemas must process, trim these schemas so that they contain only the required types.