Version 2025 of Altova MapForce was announced on October 22, 2024. Learn about all the new features below and update to the latest version.
| MapForce® 2025 (October 22, 2024) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Support for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB |  | ||||
| PDF Extractor: support for text search | | ||||
| PDF Extractor: improved table detection | | ||||
| Support for OpenAPI as definition of REST web services calls | | ||||
| Auto-generation of EDIFACT CONTRL message | | ||||
| Support for SWIFT 2024 | | ||||
|  | Support for MySQL 8.4 | | | ||
| | Support for MariaDB 10.11, 11.2, and 11.4 | | | ||
| | Support for Eclipse 4.30, 4.31, 4.32, 4.33 | | |
MapForce supports mapping data to and from the most prevalent relational and NoSQL database types. Support in MapForce 2025 has been added for Cosmos DB, a NoSQL database offered by Microsoft and used by default on the Azure platform.
Cosmos DB support adds to the long list of database connections available in MapForce and fulfils a frequent customer request.
The MapForce PDF Extractor now includes the powerful ability to search for text in a document and define rules for processing data relative to the text.
This is especially useful in large PDF documents with numerous tables where you may only need to extract some of the data. For instance, when creating a template to extract data from yearly financial reports, you could search for “Expenditures” and process the table of figures following that text accordingly. Granular search options such as case sensitivity, format filtering (font, font weight, etc.), and whole or partial word searches, allow for precise targeting.
The ability to pinpoint and extract only the relevant tables based on a text search streamlines template creation, especially when working with complex PDF documents.
The MapForce PDF Extractor suggestion engine automatically detects tables that exist in your document, which you can then opt to extract automatically.
In MapForce 2025, table detection has been improved to detect more varieties of table formatting. For instance, the suggestion engine now detects tables without lines or with lines with varying thicknesses. These improvements make extracting data from PDFs for data integration even more flexible and streamlined.
MapForce supports calls to SOAP and RESTful web services for processing data in data integration and ETL projects. Setting up a REST web services call requires supplying details including the web service URL, a request method (e.g., GET, POST, PUT), request and response structures (e.g., XML, JSON, custom MIME types), and parameters. You can add this manually, by specifying a WADL file or URL that includes the details, and now by importing an OpenAPI definition.
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a standardized format for defining and describing RESTful APIs. It provides a language-agnostic way to outline the structure, endpoints, request and response formats, parameters, authentication methods, and other aspects of an API.
When you specify the OpenAPI file that describes the web service you require, MapForce automatically processes the structure of the call and displays it as a graphical data mapping component. Removing the need for manual configuration significantly streamlines the process of integrating with web services.
MapForce has long supported EDIFACT and other popular EDI formats for data mapping. The EDIFACT standard includes the use of CONTRL messages to acknowledge the receipt of another message and to report any syntax or processing errors.
MapForce 2025 now supports auto-generation of such CONTRL messages when creating a data mapping project that includes an EDIFACT component: When you click Create Mapping to CONTRL from the right-click context menu, MapForce inserts an EDIFACT CONTRL component in your data mapping project with default connections automatically mapped. This saves a significant amount of time previously spent manually creating such message mappings.
Learn about all the additional capabilities you’ll get by upgrading from an older version to MapForce Version 2025.
| MapForce® 2024r2 (April 23, 2024) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for FORTRAS EDI | | ||||
| | Option to share database connection among components | | | ||
| | Ability to deploy original design file to FlowForce Server | | | ||
| | Support for video and web links in Projects | | | ||
| | Code generation for .NET 8 | | | ||
| | Support for MySQL 8.2 & 8.3, PostgreSQL 16, MariaDB 11.2, SQLite 3.45 | | |
| MapForce® 2024 (October 24, 2023) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MapForce PDF Extractor | | ||||
| | "Sleep" function | | | ||
| Support for new grant types in OAuth credentials | | ||||
| |  | Improvements for auto-connecting matching children | | | |
| | Native support for MySQL and MariaDB | | | ||
| Support for SWIFT 2023 | | ||||
| | Integration with Eclipse 2023-06 and 2023-09 | | | ||
| | | Support for horizontal mouse wheel scrolling | | | |
| MapForce® 2023r2 (April 12, 2023) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for VDA EDI messages | | ||||
| | | Support for comments in data mapping projects | | | |
| | | Support for standalone =“yes” declaration in XML output | | | |
| Support for additional EDIFACT version: 2022B | | ||||
| | Support for Firebird 4, PostgreSQL 15, SQL Server 2022 | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.26, 4.27 | | |
| MapForce® 2023 (October 19, 2022) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Integrated Altova XML Schema Manager | | | |
| | | Light and Dark modes | | | |
| Support for ODETTE EDI messages | | ||||
| Support for additional EDIFACT versions: 2021B, 2022A | | ||||
| Support for additional SWIFT version: 2022 | | ||||
| Ability to dynamically set EDI separators and terminators | | ||||
| | Support for additional database versions | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.23, 4.24, 4.25 | | |
| MapForce® 2022r2 (March 8, 2022) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for MongoDB clusters | | ||||
| Support XBRL Filing Indicators | | ||||
| | Support for images in the Project Window | | | ||
| | Code generation for Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 | | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | | ||
| | Integration with Visual Studio 2022 | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.22 | | |
| MapForce® 2021 (October 14, 2020) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for SWIFT messages | | ||||
| Conversion of EDI to XML without mapping | | ||||
| Arbitrary location of EDI configuration files | | ||||
| | Support for SQL left outer join | | | ||
| | Dynamic assignment of URLs for REST Web services at runtime | | | ||
| | Read/write binary files | | | ||
| XBRL Taxonomy Manager | | ||||
| COVID-19 related XBRL taxonomy updates | | ||||
| | Updated support for MariaDB | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.15 and 4.16 | | |
| MapForce® 2020r2 (March 17, 2020) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | For Excel output: new option to update existing documents | | | ||
| | | All new library management system | | | |
| | New namespace options in generated code (C++, C#, Java) | | | ||
| Extended UN/EDIFACT support for 2019A & 2019B | | ||||
| | Support for additional database versions | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.13 and 4.14 | | |
| MapForce® 2020 (October 9, 2019) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for OAuth 2.0 in Web services calls | | ||||
| Support for JSON Lines | | ||||
| | | Value Map configuration via copy/paste | | | |
| | | Extended Value Map options | | | |
| | Database schema independency | | | ||
| | Extended support for Oracle packages | | | ||
| | Ability to deploy Global Resources to MapForce Server & FlowForce Server | | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | | ||
| | Code gen for & integration with Visual Studio 2019 | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.11 and 4.12 | | |
| MapForce® 2019r3 (April 2, 2019) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | MapForce is going sharp - full support for high resolution monitors | | | |
| Support for JSON Schema draft-06 and draft-07 | | ||||
| Handling of Web services errors | | ||||
| Dynamic username and password for Web services | | ||||
| Support for unstructured request/response bodies in REST Web services | | ||||
| | Database output logging (tracing) | | | ||
| | Transaction roll-back for database error handling | | | ||
| | New functions: charset-encode / charset-decode | | | ||
| | Support for additional database versions | | | ||
| Support for EDIFACT 2018B | | ||||
| | Updated OpenJDK support | | | ||
| | | Support for Windows Server 2019 | | | |
| Support for Office 2019 | | ||||
| | Support for Eclipse 4.9 and 4.10 | | |
| MapForce® 2018 (October 3, 2017) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCPDP SCRIPT support | | ||||
| Easily insert or remove columns in Excel mappings | | ||||
| | | Significant speed improvement in the XSLT engine | | | |
| | Generate code for VS2013, VS2015, and VS2017 | | | ||
| | Support for Sybase 16, PostgreSQL 9.6, MySQL 5.7 | | | ||
| | Integration with Eclipse 4.7 | | |
| MapForce® 2017 (October 4, 2016) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Dynamic access to node names for generic mappings | | | |
| | Update-If and Insert-Rest database table actions performed as SQL Merge when possible | | | ||
| Support for EDIFACT versions 2015B and 2016A including the new VERMAS message | | ||||
| Support for inline XBRL files as a mapping source | | ||||
| | | Ability to add namespace nodes to XML output | | | |
| | MapForce Debugger is now available within Eclipse and Visual Studio integration packages | | | ||
| Support for XBRL taxonomy packages | | ||||
| | Enhanced database support – support for ADO.NET database drivers, native support for PostgreSQL, support for Progress OpenEdge, support for SQL Server 2016 | | | ||
| | Support for integration with Eclipse 4.6 | | |
| MapForce® 2016 (September 30, 2015) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Interactive data mapping debugger | | | ||
| | Support for Firebird databases | | | ||
| | Support for numerous databases updated to include newest versions: IBM DB2 10.5, SQL Server 2014, PostgreSQL 9.4, MySQL 5.6, and Oracle 12C | | | ||
| | Visual Studio integration updated to include VS 2015 | | | ||
| | | Windows 10 support | | | |
| | | New functions: min-string and max-string | | | |
| MapForce® 2015 release 3 (February 25, 2015) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | String processing as XML, JSON, EDI, CSV, FLF, and FlexText, for both input and output components | | | ||
| FlexText support for regular expressions | | ||||
| | Support for SQLite databases | | | ||
| Support for Web Services Security and other security extensions | | ||||
| Support for Excel 2013 files | | ||||
| | New string processing functions pad-string-left, pad-string-right, repeat-string | | | ||
| Support for EDIFACT D.14A and D.14B and X12 5040, 6030, and 6040 standards – adds to existing support | |
| MapForce® 2015 (September 17, 2014) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSON support – Read and write JSON files, with functionality similar to XML files, for both input and output components | | ||||
| XBRL Table Linkbase Support – When processing XBRL instances user can now map Table Linkbases, if available in the taxonomy | | ||||
| Support for US GAAP 2014 XBRL taxonomy – Adds to support for previous versions | | ||||
| | | New function replicate-item – A new sequence function that allows a mapping to produce a sequence of an arbitrary length from every single node | | | |
| New Flextext option for Single Split "delimited (line starts with)" – Similar to the Repeated Split option that has been available in previous versions | | ||||
| | Support for integration with Eclipse 4.4 – Adds to support for previous versions | | | ||
| | | Support for German, Spanish, and Japanese languages in format-date function | | | |
| MapForce® 2014 Release 2 (March 19, 2014) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Support for CDATA generation in XML files – Target nodes may be specified individually for generation as CDATA | | | |
| | | New functions for processing and generating sequences – New functions allow bulk processing of sequences, including generate-sequence, replicate-sequence and more | | | |
| | Timeout settings for Web service calls and database execution – Define timeouts for Web service calls (Enterprise Edition only) and database sources | | | ||
| | | Improved mapping validation and editing help – Mapping validation error message have been improved to enable quick identification of mapping errors | | | |
| | Support for integration with Visual Studio 2013 (adds to support for previous versions) | | |
| MapForce® 2014 (October 29, 2013) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Support for XML wildcards (xs:any and xs:anyAttribute). | | | |
| | | Integration of RaptorXML – RaptorXML is now used for all XSLT 1, XSLT 2 and XQuery transformations in MapForce. | | | |
| | | Support for comments and processing instructions in output XML. | | | |
| | New function to calculate age based on a birthdate – Simplifies this calculation compared to using dateTime functions. | | | ||
| | Support for new databases – Preliminary support announced in v2013r2 is now upgraded to full support implemented across the MissionKit product line. | | | ||
| | Support for integration with Eclipse 4.3. | | |
| MapForce® 2013 Release 2 (April 29, 2013) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Deploy to FlowForce Server functionality – Makes it easy to deploy mapping projects to FlowForce Server for automation. | | | ||
| | Preliminary support for new databases and database versions: Informix 11.70, PostgreSQL versions 9.0.10/9.1.6/9.2.1, MySQL 5.5.28, IBM DB2 versions 9.5/9.7/10.1, SQL Server 2012, Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 15/15.7, and Access 2010/2013 | | |
| MapForce® 2013 (September 15, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Support for SQL stored procedures – MapForce 2013 now supports stored procedures as input components, output components, or even inserted into a mapping as a function-like call (allowing users to provide input data, execute the stored procedure, and read/map the output data to other components). | | | ||
| | New API for integration into Java programs – Java developers working with popular Java tools for Windows platforms can now execute MapForce inside a window within their own application. | | | ||
| Support for US GAAP 2012 XBRL taxonomy – adds to support for earlier versions, enabling users to comply with the latest SEC revision of financial and business reporting mandates. | | ||||
| | Support for integration with Eclipse 4.2 – adds to support for earlier versions, allowing developers to implement all the data mapping, content conversion, Web services implementation, and code generation capabilities of MapForce from within the latest version of the Eclipse environment. | | |
| MapForce® 2012 Release 2 (February 23, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Sort input data by various criteria – Saves a step for users who require large datasets to be sorted as part of a data mapping task. | | | |
| | Support for logical files in IBM iSeries databases – Users can map data both to and from logical files in IBM iSeries databases. | | |
| MapForce® 2012 (October 19, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Streaming reading for large XML, CSV, and FLF files and databases – Allows mappings to process arbitrarily large XML, CSV, and FLF input files by using a streaming processor approach. | | | ||
| | New functions parse-date and parse-time – Easier than the existing parse-dateTime function when data in an input stream defines only the date or time, not both. | | | ||
| | | Visual alignment guides on mapping screen – Allows users to create more clearly organized mapping displays. | | | |
| | | JDBC database driver support – Improves database connectivity for many users. | | | |
| | New Java API – Allows Java developers to more easily manipulate, customize, and enhance MapForce functionality. | | | ||
| | Search in Project Window – Helps users manage organization of large projects. | | |
| MapForce® 2011 Release 3 (June 8, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Define multiple ranges in a single Excel worksheet – Significantly increases flexibility of mapping designs. | | ||||
| Native Support for HIPAA 5010 – Support for a new EDI collection dedicated to HIPAA 5010, the latest version of the standard for electronic health care records established by the US Department of Health and Human Services for electronic medical data transactions between insurers, providers, and employers. | | ||||
| Auto-generation of message 999 for X12 version 5010 – Starting with version 5010, the X12 standard requires message 999 instead of 997 for error reporting. | | ||||
| | | Command line extensions – HTML/Word/PDF files can be generated in post-processing by StyleVision, similar to the interactive mode. | | | |
| | Support for .NET 4 in built-in execution – Users may now add external .NET 4 functions for immediate processing by MapForce. | | | ||
| | | Save individual values or entire sub-trees in intermediate variables – An optional feature to simplify and speed up mapping definitions. | | | |
| Support for XML signatures on output – Optionally apply an XML digital signature to XML and XBRL output documents. | |
| MapForce® 2011 Release 2 (February 16, 2011) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Direct file output (data streaming) – gives ETL projects a huge performance boost with the ability to stream XML, CSV, and FLF file output. | | | ||
| | | Expandable if-else component (switch statement) – enables users to easily control the flow of data in their mapping projects by matching a value to a selected criterion. | | | |
| Ability to process different EDI message types in a single mapping – allows users to define multiple EDI mappings in a single design so that MapForce can automatically determine a suitable mapping based on the incoming message that has been received. | | ||||
| Support for the IATA PADIS EDI format. | | ||||
| | | Reverse existing mapping – lets users automatically reverse the direction of mappings that they have already created. | | | |
| | Ability to execute SQL statements prior to database output – enables users to execute SQL statements before the result of their database mappings is written to database tables. | | | ||
| | New parsing functions – parse-number and parse-dateTime. | | | ||
| | | New function to retrieve node name – returns the QName of the selected node. | | | |
| | | Ability to search Function Library. | | | |
| | Documentation formatting with StyleVision – lets users customize detailed reports for mapping verification and analysis. | | |
| MapForce® 2011 (September 8, 2012) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Chained transformations – enables users to create complex mappings in which the output of one mapping becomes the input of another. | | | |
| | | Integration with StyleVision for output components – lets MapForce users automatically render results of their XML and XBRL mappings in HTML, PDF, RTF, or Word 2007+ (depending on StyleVision edition) using an associated StyleVision template design. | | | |
| | | Formatting of numbers, dates, and times – enables MapForce users to easily convert numbers, dates, and times to their string representations using a variety of different formatting functions. | | | |
| | | Two new parameters in auto-number function – lets MapForce users access the same auto-number counter in different parts of their mappings and restart counting every time the supplied value changes. | | | |
| | Functions for working with timezones. | | | ||
| Extended support for EDIFACT – support has been extended to include 08B, 09A, and 09B messages. | | ||||
| Extended support for X12 – support has been extended to include the 6010 and 6020 transaction sets. | |
| MapForce® 2010 Release 3 (May 10, 2010) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | MSXML6 support in C++. | | | ||
| | 64-bit code generation in C++. | | | ||
| | | Support for xsi:nil in XML Schema. | | | |
| Support for mapping field names (headers) in Excel 2007+. | | ||||
| | | Ability to preserve value formatting in XML output – allows users to ensure that formatting is maintained from source to target. | | | |
| Support for SAP IDoc. | | ||||
| | Support for Visual Studio 2010. | | |
| MapForce® 2010 Release 2 (February 16, 2010) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 64-bit version – for use with 64-bit operating systems. | | | ||
| | | New string functions: tokenize, tokenize-regexp, tokenize-by-length. | | | |
| | | Automatic reassignment of child connections – enables users to automatically reassign descendent element mappings when a parent element is mapped to a new connection. | | | |
| Automatic generation of X12 997 messages – lets users automatically create mappings to X12 functional acknowledgment messages. | | ||||
| | Support for external C# and Java calls – allows users to use external C# and Java functions in mapping transformations inside MapForce. | | | ||
| | Simplified process for adding C# and Java libraries. | | |
| MapForce® 2010 (October 28, 2009) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Processing data from/into multiple files – enables users to easily consolidate file collections by aggregating data from a directory into one file or split data from one source into multiple files. | | | |
| | | Using input/output file names as parameters – lets users generate dynamic mappings in which this information is defined at run-time. | | | |
| | | Support for xsi:type in XML Schema – allows users to incorporate schemas that use abstract and derived types in their mapping projects. | | | |
| EDI file validation in generated code – lets users validate the EDI output in MapForce-generated code. | | ||||
| Support for additional EDIFACT messages – provides integrated access to configuration files for the control messages: CONTRL, AUTACK, and KEYMAN. | | ||||
| Support for WSDL 2.0 – lets users use the WSDL 2.0 recommendation from the W3C for building and connecting to Web services. | | ||||
| | | Compatibility with Windows 7. | | | |
| MapForce® 2009 (February 3, 2009) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for XBRL taxonomies & XBRL Dimensions – enables users to comply with financial and business reporting mandates by graphically mapping internal data to the XBRL format. | | ||||
| | Support for HL7 v2 EDI – allows healthcare organizations to comply with international mandates for the secure transmission of clinical data. | | | ||
| | | Support for HL7 v3 XML – allows HL7 users to update their messages and transmission data to the latest version of the standard. | | | |
| | | Support for grouping – enables users to combine source data in groups for output and then apply processing instructions to those groups, essentially transforming flat data into a hierarchical structure. | | | |
| | | Distinct-values function – allows users to automatically remove duplicate values from the result-set of a mapping. | | | |
| | | Position function – gives users the ability to return output based on the context position of data in the input document. | | | |
| | Documentation generation – enables designers and data integration specialists to share and confirm the accuracy of their mappings with other departments and/or customers. | | | ||
| | | Find dialog for identifying nodes – allows users to search for specific nodes within mapping components. | | | |
| | Native support for XML fields in SQL Server – lets users expose XML data in SQL Server database fields for mapping by assigning an XML Schema to the data in that field. | | | ||
| | Support for additional databases – SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g, and PostgreSQL 8. | | |
| MapForce® 2008 Release 2 (April 28, 2008) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mapping Excel 2007+ (OOXML) data. | | ||||
| | Support for data streams for code generation. | | | ||
| | | Sample XML Schema generation based on an XML instance. | | | |
| Support for SOAP 1.2. | | ||||
| | Support for SQL SELECT statements. | | | ||
| | Inline Primary Key / Foreign Key creation. | | | ||
| | Project generation for Visual Studio 2008. | | |
| MapForce® 2008 (September 12, 2007) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Support for aggregate functions: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, STRING-JOIN – allows users to perform computations on a range of data within a source field and return a single value to the target. | | | |
| | | ValueMap function for transforming field values – allows users to build a MapForce data processing function that maps one field value to another to ensure that values are written to the mapping target in the desired style. | | | |
| | | Enhanced options for XML output – including options for pretty printing, omitting schema references, and changing and setting encoding options. | | | |
| MapForce® 2007 Release 3 (May 30, 2007) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Seamless integration of XML fields in databases in mapping components – users can map XML data directly to and from XML-enabled databases by assigning an XML Schema to the data (for IBM DB2 9 only in this version). | | | ||
| | Enhanced database connectivity – via a quick connect wizard to easily access, preview, and integrate database data. | | | ||
| | Extended data filtering functionality – MapForce now supports the SQL-WHERE filter, which allows for precise, high-performance filtering of database sources used in data mapping projects. | | | ||
| | Redesigned and optimized code generation. | | |
| MapForce® 2007 (October 24, 2006) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Web services support – Web services can be a source, target, or data processing function in any mapping project. | | ||||
| | | Improved editing of existing mappings – added visual cues and support for refactoring mappings when source or target data structures change. | | | |
| | Tighter Visual Studio integration – for integrating the MapForce user interface and functionality into Microsoft’s premier multi-purpose development environment. | | |
| MapForce® 2006 Release 3 (June 1, 2006) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Added integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse – allows developers to directly harness all the data mapping, content conversion, Web services implementation, and code generation capabilities of MapForce from within their favorite platforms. | | | ||
| Enhanced EDI Transaction Set Editing – allowed users to easily modify and extend existing standard EDI transaction sets (i.e. EDIFACT and ANSI X12 messages) to meet business requirements. | | ||||
| | | More Versatile Visual Function Builder – enabled visual creation of data processing functions that can operate on entire XML tree fragments, allowing for better modularization and scalability of mapping projects. | | | |
| | Options for Handling Empty Flat File Values – provided ability for developers to choose whether empty fields in flat files are rendered as empty elements or not rendered at all in the data results of the mapping target. | | |
| MapForce® 2006 (October 3, 2005) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduced Visual Web Services Construction – developers can simply map between operations in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) transactions by dragging connecting lines between data sources and WSDL operations. | | ||||
| Supported Web Services Implementation – auto-generate required C# or Java code for implementing Web services on a server after mappings have been defined for the transactions in a WSDL file. | | ||||
| FlexText™ Flat File Parsing – a graphical utility for parsing structured text files and incorporating legacy data into mapping designs | | ||||
| | Project Management and Code Generation – enabled grouping of related data mappings and Web services mappings into a project, then allows automatic code generation either for individual mappings or for the entire project. | | | ||
| | | Enhanced Standards Support – updated XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery support in compliance with then-current World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Drafts released on September 15, 2005. | | | |
| | | Textual Annotation – simplified documentation of mapping projects with the ability to add annotations to mapping connections | | | |
| | Support for OLE and ActiveX Control – allowed developers to embed the MapForce user interface and access all its functionality from within their own applications | | | ||
| | | Introduced three editions – tailored to meet customers’ specific Web services and data integration needs: MapForce 2006 Basic Edition supports XML-to-XML mappings,MapForce 2006 Professional Edition supports XML, database, and basic flat file data mappings, MapForce 2006 Enterprise Edition supports all the features of MapForce 2006 Professional Edition with the addition of Web services mapping and implementation, EDI mapping, and the FlexText flat file integration utility. | | | |
| MapForce® 2005 release 3 (March 9, 2005) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDI Output – enabled the use of EDI files in the ANSI/ASC X12 and UN/EDIFACT standards as output targets of complex data mappings. This capability expands MapForce’s previous support of EDI files as input sources. | | ||||
| ANSI X12 Standard Support – provided full support for all the transaction sets covered by X12, the de facto EDI standard used in North America for electronic business transactions. Files based on the X12 standard can be used as both mapping sources and targets. | | ||||
| Extended EDIFACT Coverage – supported EDIFACT configuration files for all years starting with 93a through 04b. | | ||||
| | | Unlimited Function Input Parameters – allowed the use of unlimited parameters in several data processing functions, such as concatenate, add, and multiply, when using MapForce’s visual function builder. This feature made it easier for developers to perform mathematical manipulations and concatenate multiple parameters | | | |
| | | Mixed Content Mapping Support – accommodated mapping of mixed XML elements, such as text and sub-elements | | | |
| | | Accommodation of Null Values – enabled mappings of XML files and databases to use default values when sources have absent or null values, but targets must receive content | | | |
| MapForce® 2005 (October 3, 2004) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | XSLT 2.0 Code Generation – introduced auto-generation of program code required to execute XML mappings and transformations using the new XSLT 2.0 specification. | | | |
| | XQuery Code Generation – added auto-generation of program code required to execute intelligent querying of XML documents and databases via the new XQuery 1.0 specification. | | | ||
| | Flat File Support – added the ability to use CSV, tab-separated, or fixed-width text files as the sources and/or targets of data mappings. | | | ||
| | | Visual Function Builder – enabled the creation and reuse of custom mapping transformation and data processing functions. | | | |
| | | Transformation Input Parameters – allowed the input of outside parameters for use in mapping transformations at runtime. | | | |
| MapForce® 2004 Release 4 (May 17, 2004) | Enterprise | Professional | Basic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Introduced two editions – Enterprise and Professional. | | | ||
| Greatly enhanced mapping functionality – provides the ability to map any combination of XML, database, and EDI data into XML and/or databases | | ||||
| | Added database support – now supports all the most popular relational databases: Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, as well as any ADO/ODBC database | | | ||
| | | Introduced MapForce Engine – enabled the user to preview the output of any mapping project even if one or more of the sources is a database or an EDI file, or if the target is a database. | | | |
| | | Allowed users add existing XSLT files as libraries – all named templates in those files automatically become available as data transformation functions. | | | |
