MapForce Options
You can change the general and other preferences in MapForce as follows:
•On the Tools menu, click Options.
The available options are grouped as shown below.
General
The settings available in this page are as follows:
Show logo | Show on start | Shows or hides an image (splash screen) while MapForce starts. |
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Show gradient background | Enables or disables the gradient background in the Mapping pane. |
Limit annotation display to N lines | This option applies to components which support annotations (for example, XML schema, EDI). If the annotation text contains multiple lines, then enabling this option shows only the first N lines on the component, where N is the value you specify. This setting also applies to SELECT statements visible in a component. |
Encoding name | The default encoding for new XML files can be set by selecting an option from the dropdown list. If a two- or four-byte encoding is selected as the default encoding (i.e. UTF-16, UCS-2, or UCS-4), you can also choose between little-endian and big-endian byte-ordering. This setting can also be changed individually for each component (see Change Component Settings). |
Byte order | When a document with two-byte or four-byte character encoding is saved, the document can be saved either with little-endian or big-endian byte-ordering. You can also specify whether a byte order mark should be included. |
Use execution timeout | Sets an execution timeout when previewing the mapping result in the Output pane. |
Generate output to temporary files | When this option is set, the output generated when you preview the mapping result will be written to temporary files (this is the default option). If the output file path contains folders that do not exist yet, MapForce will create these folders.
Warning: If you intend to deploy the mapping to a server for execution, any directories in the path must exist on the server; otherwise, an execution error will occur. See also Preparing Mappings for Server Execution. |
Write directly to final output files | When this option is set, the output generated when you preview the mapping result will be written to actual files. If the output file path contains folders that do not exist yet, then a mapping error occurs.
Warning: This option overwrites any existing output files without requesting further confirmation. |
Display text in steps of N million characters | Specifies the maximum size of the text displayed in the Output pane when you preview mappings that generate large XML and text files. If the output text exceeds this value, you will need to click the Load more button to load the next chunk. For more information, see Previewing the Output. |
Editing
The settings available in this page are as follows:
Align components on mouse dragging | Specify whether components or functions should be aligned with other components, while you drag them with the mouse, see Aligning Components. |
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Smart component deletion | When enabled, this option "remembers" connections of deleted components, see Keeping Connections After Deleting Components. |
Messages
From this page, you can re-enable message notifications that were previously disabled using the "Do not show this message again" option.
Generation
From this page, you can define settings applicable when you generate program code and MapForce Server Execution files. For more information, see Code Generator Options and Compiling Mappings to MapForce Server Execution Files, respectively.
XBRL
See General XBRL Options.
Debugger
See Debugger Settings.
Database
From this page, you can define settings applicable when querying databases in the DB Query tab (see Database Query Settings).
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