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Tools Required
1. A utility to define a source in a target system to identify a system that sends a data to be imported. The source system is the one for which different mapping rules are getting established. This utility creates CollaborationSourceInfor, Repository and PreferenceClient objects in the target system.
2. An import utility to populate PreferenceDefinition and MultiValuePreference instances.
3. Optional. A Mapping Converter Utility provided as a reference implementation (which can be custom created for specific business) that converts mapping data in CSV format (usually populated using MS Excel like spreadsheet editing tools) to an XML format that can be readily loaded as Multi Value Preference Instances using the Import Utility described in requirement 1. Otherwise, you would be required to manually create the files that can be loaded using the tool described in requirement 1.