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A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
Maps
Maps define input and output specifications and mapping rules for data transformation.
Troubleshooting
Trace files
Trace for general data
The trace file records map execution progress. You can enable the trace option from the map settings or from the adapter command line. You can trace the input data, the output data, or both.
Group validation

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.
  - Using Maps
  - Create maps to specify sources and targets
  - Maps and map source files
    Basic tasks involved in creating and managing maps.
  - Input and output cards
  - Card settings
  - Map rules
  - Formulating map rules
  - Functional map basics
  - Map settings
  - Configuring bursts
  - Building maps
  - Running a map
  - Managing invalid data
  - Map audit overview
  - Troubleshooting
    - Overview of debugging aids
    - Command Server window
    - Run results
    - Audit log
    - Customized validation settings
    - Map Debugger
    - Trace files
      - Trace for general data
        The trace file records map execution progress. You can enable the trace option from the map settings or from the adapter command line. You can trace the input data, the output data, or both.
        Creating a trace file
        You specify the name and location of the trace file in the map settings. If you ran a map and got a message that an input was invalid, turn on the input trace only. If you got a message that an output was invalid, turn on the output trace only. If you trace both input and output, the input messages are at the beginning of the file, followed by the output messages.
        Trace file contents
        When data is valid
        Group validation
        Valid card objects
        Invalid data
        Invalid card objects
        Finding the important messages
        Existence of data
        Validation for invalid objects
        Unknown data
        Negative messages not fatal
        Example of optional occurrences
      - Static file validation and tracing
        HCL Link validates a static input file in a compiled map only once, when the map loads, and produces a trace file only if the static file fails validation.
      - Trace for XML data
      - Trace for XML parser errors only
  - Error and warning messages
- Schemas
  Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
- 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 validation

A group is valid if the syntax is valid and all of its components are valid. A group is validated component-by-component. A component is valid if its type is valid, its component range is valid, and, if the component has a rule, the rule evaluates to "true".

When a component rule is evaluated, any invalid data used in a component rule is evaluated with a value of "none".

After all of the components of a group have been found, a message in the trace file indicates that the group itself was found.

For example, the components of Row are Name and Phone# and the data for Row is:

Nicole,352-2929

To find the object Row in the trace file, first the components of Row are found. The trace file contains a message for Name, then one for Phone#, and one for Row.