Terminology

This section lists terms used in SmartMapper Business UI.

Entity
An entity represents an object, such as a customer record. Entities are composed of one or more attributes.
An entity is instantiated by specifying values for attributes. An entity can have multiple entity instances.
Relationship
A relationship captures how entities are related to each other. Two relationship types are supported, identity relationship and association relationship.
A relationship is instantiated by adding participant instances. A relationship can have multiple relationship instances.
Participant
A participant is the role that an entity plays in a relationship.
The entity instances that are added to a relationship instance become participant instances.
Anchor Participant
An anchor participant is the participant that is used to represent a relationship.

By default, SmartMapper Business UI randomly selects a participant from a relationship and sets it as anchor participant to represent this relationship. There is a one-to-one correlation between anchor participant instances and relationship instances.

Display Name
Display name is the participant name displayed in SmartMapper Business UI. By default, display name is the entity name of a participant.
Display Field
In SmartMapper Business UI, participant instances and entity instances are listed as separate records in the left panel. Each record is displayed with two-line context.

An entity is configured with one or more key attributes and non-key attributes. When the SmartMapper Business UI server is started, the system randomly sets a predefined attribute as display field. The value of the display field is bolded and displayed in the first line to represent an entity instance; values of defined key attributes are displayed in the second line.

Take the SAP_Customer entity as an example, which is defined with three attributes, ID, KUNNER, and Email. ID is the key field. It is added to the Map_Acct_Party_Cust identity relationship, which assembles customer information across SAP, OAG, and Siebel systems.

Log in to SmartMapper Business UI and select the Map_Acct_Party_Cust identity relationship. As shown, the attribute Email is set as the displayed field.