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A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
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Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
Distinguishable objects
Group starting set

Projects
A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
- Flows
  This documentation describes how Flows can be run from REST API, listeners, or they can be scheduled.
- Maps
  Maps define input and output specifications and mapping rules for data transformation.
- Schemas
  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
- Connections and Actions
  This documentation describes connections and actions.
- Files
  Files are used in various places within HCL Link. HCL Link allows files to be uploaded to the HCL Linkserver.

Group starting set

Data objects in a data stream need to be distinguishable when they could belong to two different groups. Specifically, the difference between the data that can come first in one group and the data that can come first in the other group. All of the possible types of data that may appear first in a group are referred to as the group's starting set.

The following describes the starting set of a group based on its group format:


Group Format	Starting Component Set
Explicit Delimited Fixed	Includes the type of its first component.
Implicit Sequence Unordered	Includes the type of all components up to and including the first component that has a minimum range of at least one. Includes the type of each component.
Choice	Includes the type of each component.