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 .
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.