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  1. Preface
  2. Using the Designer
  3. Working with Sources
  4. Working with Flat Files
  5. Working with Targets
  6. Mappings
  7. Mapplets
  8. Mapping Parameters and Variables
  9. Working with User-Defined Functions
  10. Using the Debugger
  11. Viewing Data Lineage
  12. Comparing Objects
  13. Managing Business Components
  14. Creating Cubes and Dimensions
  15. Using the Mapping Wizards
  16. Datatype Reference
  17. Configure the Web Browser

Designer Guide

Designer Guide

Understanding the Mapping Wizards

Understanding the Mapping Wizards

The Designer provides two mapping wizards to help you create mappings quickly and easily. Both wizards are designed to create mappings for loading and maintaining star schemas, a series of dimensions related to a central fact table. You can, however, use the generated mappings to load other types of targets.
You choose a different wizard and different options in each wizard based on the type of target you want to load and the way you want to handle historical data in the target:
  • Getting Started Wizard.
    Creates mappings to load static fact and dimension tables and slowly growing dimension tables.
  • Slowly Changing Dimensions Wizard.
    Creates mappings to load slowly changing dimension tables based on the amount of historical dimension data you want to keep and the method you choose to handle historical dimension data.
After using a mapping wizard, you can edit the generated mapping to further customize it.

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