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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 properties
Basic type properties
Name

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
  - Native XML schema support
    HCL Link provides Native XML schema support.
  - Native JSON schema support
    This documentation describes the Native JSON schema support.
  - 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.

Name

The name of the type should be as descriptive as possible and reflect the information that the type represents.

A type name must conform to the following guidelines:

A type name cannot be more than 256 characters long.
A type name cannot be a reserved word or contain a reserved symbol.
A type name cannot contain only digits and/or periods.
A type name may contain numbers and special characters.
A type name cannot contain spaces. Use an underscore instead.
A type name can contain the following:
- Letters
- Digits
- ASCII characters 128-255
- Special characters: #, ~, %, _, ? or \
- Double-byte characters (Japan edition only)
A type name cannot have the same name as another type on the same level in the same schema.
A type name can be up to 256 characters in length, but use a short type name if possible. The full path name of each type is used in map rules in the map designer.