Setting mapping keyboard preferences for your workspace

You can set your keyboard preferences in the Graphical Data Mapping editor by specifying your choices in the workspace Preferences panel.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to change the default mapping keyboard commands, or to add new key combinations based on your usage specification:

  1. Select Window > Preferences > General > Keys in the main IBM® App Connect Enterprise Toolkit menu.
    Keys option in the Graphical Data Mapping Preferences wizard
  2. Identify the entries that refer to mapping. Enter Mapping in the type filter text box.

    Shows the type filter text box.

    You can see the list of keys related to mapping.

    Sample view of the list of keys related to mapping.

  3. Optional: Select a command, for example, Assign.
  4. Optional: For each command, complete the following steps to define the key:
    1. Enter the key combination in Binding.
    2. Select Editing Maps in the field When.

      List of options that you can choose to specify when the key applies in your mapping.

Results

You have created a new key command for the Assign transform that you can use when you edit a message map in your workspace.

What to do next

Change or add new commands to specify key actions when using the Graphical Data Mapping editor.

Create a message map. For more information, see Creating message maps.