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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 inheritance
Propagation of type properties
Creation time is not the only time type properties can be passed from a type to its subtypes. You can use propagation to pass along certain 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
    - Inheritance of item properties and restrictions
    - Inheritance of category properties and components
    - Propagation of type properties
      Creation time is not the only time type properties can be passed from a type to its subtypes. You can use propagation to pass along certain type properties.
      - Propagation of type properties common to all types
        You can propagate some type properties that are common to all types such as Item Subclass, Description and Type Syntax, to each of its subtypes, without the process checking additional criteria to determine if the type property can be propagated.
      - Propagation of type properties for specific types
        You can propagate some other type properties such as Separators and Restrictions, to each of its subtypes for specific types, with the process checking additional criteria to determine if the type property can be propagated.
  - Error detection
  - Error recovery
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Return codes and error messages

Propagation of type properties

Creation time is not the only time type properties can be passed from a type to its subtypes. You can use propagation to pass along certain type properties.

Propagation passes the setting of a particular type property from the given type to all of the types in the subtree as applicable and defined by their context. When you select a type property for propagation that does not apply to a given subtype, it is not propagated.