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Configuring Metadata Mapping
Metadata mapping is a critical component of data exchange if you are exchanging product data between two systems that are configured differently. Configuring this mapping prior to starting the data exchange cycles in a production environment is an important step of setting up the environment. You must thoroughly assess the data being exchanged and how the receiving system is setup. A complete understanding between the two entities exchanging data of the nature of the data and possible values of the configurable metadata is essential.
This section contains the following information:
Tools Required
Identify Metadata to be Mapped
Establish a Source system to define the mapping rules
Enabling Collaboration Source ID
Configuring the Mapping Definitions
Populate Preference Definition
Populating Multi-Value Preference Instances
Configuration and Preference Instances – Examples
Deleting Preference Definitions
Enabling the use of Metadata Mapping
Default Value Provisioning for the Metadata
Logging