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Method elaboration

Method elaboration occurs after the Method Confirmation phase, but can also occur during or after the Method Creation, Method Confirmation, or Method Activation phase. To complete the method, you must decide whether the files that were initially excluded from elaboration during the method creation phase should continue to be ignored by the method, or if the data stores should be included.

After the method has been saved and confirmed, the extraction batch process elaborates steps sequentially. The elaboration of each step can exploit the information obtained during the elaboration of the preceding step. During method elaboration, the following events occur sequentially:

Elaboration and integral copy of the data stores recognized as Register Tables.
Elaboration of the data stores recognized as sensitive to a selection class, applying the filter specified by the user and copying only the information complying with the required selections. If a related class is included in these data store, all the values of the field associated with the related class are stored in specific lists for all the copied records (in this phase, the related class is also called out class or output class).
Elaboration of the data stores recognized as sensitive to a related class, applying the lists of values generated in the preceding step as filter and copying only the information that comply with the data contained in the lists. (In this phase, the related class is also a selection class.)
Elaboration and integral copy of the remaining data stores.

Note: The flow described above is confined to a single level of relationships. Normally, there can be connections and interdependence between data stores at several levels.