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Projects
A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
Schemas
Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
Item restrictions
Ignoring restrictions

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
    - Restrictions settings
    - Ignoring 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.

Ignoring restrictions

There might be instances when you do not require the data for an item to match any of its restrictions. Suppose you defined restrictions for your data, but you want to run a test on some test data, and you do not want to use the restrictions for this time only. You can ignore the restrictions for a given execution of a map.

In another example, you have a list of valid part numbers that can appear in any data circulated within your company. Suppose you receive data from some other company in the same format as your internal data. The other company may be using different part numbers, so you do not want to make their data conform to the restrictions. When you map the other company's data, you could ignore the restrictions.

For instructions on ignoring restrictions during map execution, see map designer and Command server documentation.