What is a table catalog?
A table catalog is a collection of mapped user tables. Table catalogs store all of the user table mapping metadata information for re-use across flowcharts. You can also map contact and response history tables in a table catalog for inclusion and exclusion rules.
Table catalogs are stored by default in a binary format using a
.cat
extension. They can also be saved as XML files.
You use table catalogs to:
Easily save, load, and update commonly used user tables.
Create alternative data mappings (for example, to switch between running against a sample database and the production database).
You can save mapped user tables to a table catalog, then use the same table catalog in other flowcharts. This means you can:
Make changes to the table catalog in one flowchart, then propagate these changes to other flowcharts by importing the updated table catalog into each flowchart.
Retain the internal catalog that you first loaded for that flowchart, although you copy it to other flowcharts and make changes there.
Make different changes to the internal catalogs of a number of different flowcharts, starting from one "template" table catalog.
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