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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.
Type properties

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

Type properties

The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.

For item types, properties define whether that item is text, a number, a date and time, or a syntax value. Properties include such characteristics as size, pad characters, and justification.

For group types, the properties are related to the format of that group. The format of a group may be explicit or implicit. In addition, type properties include syntax objects that appear at the beginning or end of the object, as well as release characters.