Generalized Name Translation

Generalized name translation is strongly recommended to be the primary translation that you use as it provides a simple and generic translation mechanism. Other translation mechanisms provide more sophisticated controls that you might want to use in special circumstances.

Generalized name translations enable you to translate both property names and class names. It is a particularly flexible translation mechanism because it does not assume that the tools involved are always Explore on one side and an external tool on the other.

With generalized name translation, these combinations of data transformations between tools are supported:

  • Explore to external tool
  • External tool to Explore
  • External tool to another external tool
  • Explore instance to another Explore instance
  • External tool to another instance of the same external tool

You must create one translation entry for each direction in which data needs to be translated, for example, from Explore to a third party tool, and from the third party tool back to Explore.

For example, If you want to translate every property name called Part_No in one tool, to PN in another tool, use generalized name translation.