Source and destination values
Temporary variables are accessed by right-clicking within the relevant text entry components (Source, Destination, Basis) and selecting a variable from the menu.
After an action is selected, on the Input/Output Message Format panels, specify the source and destination values for each translation.
Clicking
or opens the tree view on the side of the dialog box. You can double-click a path or use or below the tree view to insert a path into the action.Use the input and output lists to identify and select references to the location of particular data items in an input or output message. Selecting an item produces a path string that encodes the selected datum location.
This path string is used as an argument to guide a translation action.
- The path string for an input datum is used to bring that datum into the translation action.
- The path string for an output datum is used to place the output of the action into the output message.