Data Fields in Profile Mapping Files

Because in the base product element names cannot contain spaces, space-separated mapping files receive special treatment to allow spaces in external Profile names. A description of the individual fields in the Profile Mapping Files is given after this section.

The file format has four or five fields per line. Four fields are used for old format mapping files where the AVEVA profile name is either the Catalogue or the Specification name. Five fields are for either the newer format (version 2) or the Block format mapping files. These include both the AVEVA Catalogue™ and the Specification name. Version 2 files are differentiated from the Block format files by having a different header line which includes a single version number, rather than a description of the column widths. The Block format file is recommended.

The fields are read in the following order.

1. The first, and possibly the second, fields are the AVEVA profile names (with no leading, trailing or embedded spaces).

2. The right most field is the Profile shape code (with no leading, trailing or embedded spaces).

3. The penultimate field is the Steel Standard (with no leading, trailing or embedded spaces).

4. The remaining (second or third) field is the external profile name, once the leading and trailing spaces have been removed.

Refer to External Mapping File Separator for further information on how you can specify which separator which the application use to discriminate between fields.