Only those fields associated with prompt lists in Slate appear at the Prompt Value Mappings stage. Fields that are "text" fields (for example, First Name, Last Name, Email, and Unique ID) will not appear in the Prompt Value Mappings stage since they are all unique and are not associated with a set list of prompts.
The first time a source file is mapped the list of Prompt Value Mappings source fields do not reflect all related data points from the incoming file. When this is the case, the following warning appears:
This source has fields for which values have not yet been populated. Click "Refresh Values" above to scan the source files to identify possible values.
Selecting Refresh Values pulls all of the sample values from the source file into the Prompt Value Mappings stage. Once Refresh Values is selected, the previous warning message will go away.
Overview: Prompt Value Mapping dialog window
Guess Below:
If Slate can match incoming data values with existing prompts, it will do so.
This will save time, as opposed to manually entering a value for the prompts.
How-To: Prompt Value Mapping
From the list of Source Fields, select one of the fields
Dialog shows incoming Source Values and corresponding Destination Values
Select Guess Below or manually enter the desired Destination Value.
Select Save
Repeat these steps for the needed Source Fields
Tips and Notes
Unlike Field Mappings, some incoming Prompt Value data points may not need to be represented in Slate. Don't feel compelled to map each and every prompt value if they are not critical.
A Mapped and an Unmapped column appear for each field at this stage. The numbers in each column indicate how many incoming values from the source data file have been mapped to prompts values in Slate.
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