Editing Advanced Rules Files - trillium_discovery - trillium_quality - Latest

Trillium Control Center

Product type
Software
Portfolio
Verify
Product family
Trillium
Product
Trillium > Trillium Discovery
Version
Latest
Language
English
Product name
Trillium Quality and Discovery
Title
Trillium Control Center
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2008
Last updated
2024-10-18
Published on
2024-10-18T15:02:04.502478

You can edit settings in the advanced Business Data Parser rules files. When you edit an advanced rule, you copy the rule file to the client system, make your modifications, and then upload the file back to the server system.

Note the following guidelines:

  • When you edit a rules file, the modifications only affect the current process and not other projects or processes in your workflow.
  • The parser uses default file settings if the rules files are not modified.

Advanced Rules Files

  • Mask definitions file. Specifies which characters are alphabetics, numericals, vowels, consonants, uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, and so on. The default mask definitions file name is maskfile.win/unx. The file is stored in the following location: path/tables/general_resources, where path is the path to the server you specified during installation. For more information, see Using Masks.

(For example, C:/Program Files/Trillium Software/MBSW/17/tsq/tables/general_resources.)

  • Delimiters control file. Specifies which characters are to be used as delimiters during the parsing process and whether they are to be included in table lookup. The default delimiters control file name is delimit.win/unx. The file is stored in the following location: path\repository\projectN\tables, where path is the path to the repository you specified during the installation, repository is the name of the repository you are working with, and N is the number of your project. For more information, see About Delimiters Control Files.

(For example, C:/ProgramData/Trillium Software/Data/metabase/repository_name/project2/tables.)

  • Characters control file. Contains a list of default characters (for example #, <, >, and $) that the parser process converts to spaces before table lookup. You can edit this file to add or remove characters from the list as needed; for example, remove brackets ([ ]) or asterisks (*) if you want to retain them in the output as part of a product name or part number. The default characters control file name is charctl.win/unx. The file is stored in the following location: path/tables/parser_rules, where path is the path to the server you specified during installation.

(For example, C:/Program Files/Trillium Software/MBSW/17/tsq/tables/parser_rules.)

To edit an advanced rules file

  1. From the Navigation or Project View, right-click the Business Data Parser process and select Edit Process.
  2. Click Advanced Rules. The default paths and names of the rules files display.
  3. Locate the rule you want to edit and click Copy to client. The Browse For Folder window opens.
  4. Select a destination folder and click OK. The file is copied to the folder you specified.
  5. Go to the destination folder and edit the copy of the file using a text editor.
  6. After you finish editing, save and close the file.
  7. In the Advanced Rules window, click Upload. The file search window opens.
  8. Navigate to and select the edited file and click Open.
  9. Click Finish to save your work and close the BDP edit window.