Prompting a Condition into Common Condition

About this task

Any Condition could be prompted into Common Condition during its defining or editing process. In this way, users could reuse the Conditions which could be used in other places, but have not been included into Condition Dictionary. This could be used when

Procedure

Launch the prompting wizard. The following steps take Defining Conditional mapping by data mapping as an example.

  1. In the Condition defining panel of Mapping editor, click 'Prompt' button to launch the wizard.

In the first step of the wizard, fulfill the Condition description just as defining Common Condition.

  1. Fill in the Condition description and remember to change Target Environment. Be default, this Condition's environment would be checked. In this case, 'Server' is checked.

In the second step of the wizard, redefine the Condition expression and make it more flexible for other usage by variables.

  1. Add the variables which would be used to assign different values when reusing the Condition. Click the "add" button on the right side and set the ID and type. You could also use the "minus" button to remove the variable you don't need.
  2. Bind the variable to the Condition expression and make sure the variable has the right type.
  3. Click 'Finish' button.

Results

This Common Condition is successfully saved in Condition Dictionary and users could reuse it in other places.