Options Properties

Options properties provide generic control over the TextConverter behavior. TextConverter can work in one of three modes: “Auto”, “Manual” and “Delimited”. The first item in the Options properties list “Mode” allows selecting the operational mode for the current project.

• 1. Auto Mode (default) provides visual means that enable users with no programming skills to solve a wide range of data extraction tasks. It also allows experienced users to take advantage of the extensive capabilities of the Target development platform.

  2. Manual Mode provides ultimate flexibility for professionals with programming background to solve data extraction and processing tasks of virtually any complexity. In this mode, projects are configured using VBScript taking advantage of the vast VBScript resources combined with powerful built-in TextConverter libraries. The platform libraries cover a wide range of functionality including text parsing, data transformation and processing as well as working with the file system, email objects, and internet resources. Scripting also can be used in combination with all other operational modes.

  3. Delimited Mode supports working with structured input documents such as MS Excel and delimited text files. It mostly used for data mapping, transformation and loading into relational databases or flat file data storages. While TextConverter provides convenient interface for importing structured data files, SiMX also offers professional users DbConverter, a fully featured component for more advanced mapping of structured data sources.

     1. The Options properties differ for each operational mode and input format. Consequently, there are multiple combinations of options properties, which all are presented in the two tables below: Common Options Properties and Context Dependent Options Properties.

Common Options Properties