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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.
Type inheritance
Inheritance of item properties and 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
  - 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.
  - 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.

Inheritance of item properties and restrictions

Properties and restrictions of items are inherited when a new item is created.

For example, an item named Department is defined as a character text item that has a content size minimum of 2 and maximum of 3. Department has a list of "include" restrictions that consists of valid departments: ACC (Accounting), SLS (Sales), and MKT (Marketing).

The type MainOffice is created as a subtype of Department. MainOffice inherits the properties and restrictions of Department.

You can delete any restrictions that are not applicable to MainOffice.