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Prerequisites

  • You have opened the Process Development perspective in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio and have expanded your project in the Project Explorer view.

  • You have created the necessary data objects containing the data that is transformed.

    For more information, see Creating Data Objects .

Context

The mapping activity is a type of flow object in the process. You use a mapping activity to transform complex data from data objects in the process context into more simple data.

When working with mapping activities, you create the mapping activity as a flow object in your process. After that you define the mappings between the data objects in the process context.

Procedure

  1. Expand Process Modeling , then expand Processes .
  2. In the context menu of a process, choose Open .
  3. Expand Flow Objects from Palette .
  4. Choose Mapping from the dropdown menu, containing all the activities, and click the modeling surface.

    The activity appears in the place you clicked.

  5. Choose General in the Properties view and specify a name of the activity in the Name field.
  6. (Optional) Specify a description of the activity in the Documentation field.
  7. Choose Mapping in the Properties view and define the mappings between the data objects in the process context using drag and drop. For more information about defining mappings, see Defining Data Mappings .
    Note

    You can drag a node from the mapping editor to the modeling surface to create an identical data object but with a different name. for more information about data objects, see Creating Data Objects .