Creating Override Maps for PDW Product Exports

In Export Map Maintenance, besides the default map, you can also create override maps. These maps instruct the system to override the mapping on the default map if certain defined conditions exist.

For example, you map the dictionary item Ven Cat# on the default map to the Product Data Warehouse (PDW) metadata item Cat#. You want all Cat# metadata items with the value of 12345 to use a different export map. Create an override map, which instructs the system to use its mapping instead of the default mapping when it comes upon the catalog number of 12345during export.

You create override maps by identifying a metadata item and its unique value. These tell the system to use a different export map. The system uses this override map every time it comes upon the metadata item with the unique value.

By default, if a specific export map is not found, the system uses the *Default* map. The system first calculates pricing using the PDW Price Sheet specified by the price line, then the price sheet, and then the discount class. If nothing matches, the system uses the *Default* price map. Use the Use PDW Price Export Map With Blank Discount Class As Override to indicate if you want the system to find a default PDW Price Export map with an empty Discount Class to use as an override.

Note: You should create override maps only when advised by Eclipse support to do so.

To create an override map:

From the Tools > Product Data Warehouse (PDW)> PDW Export Maps menu, select PDW Data Export Map Maintenance to display the PDW Export Data Maintenance screen.

From the File menu, select New Export Map and at the prompt, enter a new export map ID and click OK.

Note: You can copy the default export map. In the Export Map ID field, select Default. Then from the File menu, select Copy Export Map and provide a new map ID.

In the Description field, enter a description for the map, such as Cat Override.
In the Trigger Meta field, enter the metadata item that the system needs to recognize as a flag to use this map instead of the default map if it contains the value defined in the next field.
In the Value(s) field, enter the metadata item's value that triggers the system to use this map. Use Alt+V to enter more than one value for the field.
In the Eclipse Dictionary field, enter the dictionary items to which you want to map the metadata items.

Note: You can press F10 to access a list of dictionary items from which to select, but this list only displays A- and D-TypeDescriptors. Any dictionary item that is an I-Type Descriptor will not display on the list.

Finish creating the map as you would the default map.

Note: Any data element that is not mapped in the override map uses the default map during export.