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Document

A Document object represents a MapForce document (a loaded MFD file). A document contains a main mapping and zero or more local user-defined-function mappings.

To navigate the object model, use the following properties:

•Application

•Parent

For file handling, use:

•Activate

•Close

•FullName

•Name

•Path

•Saved

•Save

•SaveAs

For mapping handling, use:

•MainMapping

•Mappings

•CreateUserDefinedFunction

For component handling, use:

•FindComponentByID

For code generation, use:

•OutputSettings_ApplicationName

•JavaSettings_BasePackageName

•GenerateCHashCode

•GenerateCodeEx

•GenerateCppCode

•GenerateJavaCode

•GenerateXQuery

•GenerateXSLT

•GenerateXSLT2

•GenerateXSLT3

•HighlightSerializedMarker

For mapping execution, use:

•GenerateOutput

•GenerateOutputEx

View access:

•MapForceView

Obsolete:

•OutputSettings_Encoding

Properties

Name	Description
Application	Read-only. Retrieves the application's top-level object.
FullName	Path and name of the document file.
JavaSettings_BasePackageName	Sets or retrieves the base package name used when generating Java code. In the MapForce graphical user interface, this setting is available in the Mapping Settings dialog box (right-click the mapping and select Mapping Settings from the context menu).
LibraryImports	Read-only. Gets a collection of imported libraries. In the MapForce graphical user interface, these correspond to entries from the Manage Libraries window, added at document level.
MainMapping	Read-only. Retrieves the main mapping of the document.
MapForceView	Read-only. This property gives access to functionality specific to the MapForce view.
Mappings	Read-only. Returns a collection of mappings contained in the document.
Name	Read-only. Name of the document file without file path.
OutputSettings_ApplicationName	Sets or retrieves the application name available in the Mapping Settings dialog box (To display this dialog box in MapForce, right-click the mapping and select Mapping Settings from the context menu).
OutputSettings_Encoding	This property is no longer supported. Mapping output encoding settings do no longer exist. Components have individual output encoding settings.
Parent	Read-only. The parent object according to the object model.
Path	Read-only. Path of the document file without name.
Saved	Read-only. True if the document was not modified since the last save operation, false otherwise.

Methods

Name	Description
Activate	Makes this document the active document.
Close	Closes the document without saving.
CreateUserDefinedFunction	Creates a user defined function in the current document.
FindComponentByID	Searches in the whole document, also all its mappings, for the component with the specified id.
GenerateCHashCode	Generates C# code that will perform the mapping. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateCodeEx	Generates code that will perform the mapping. The parameter i_nLanguage specifies the target language. The method returns an object that can be used to enumerate all messages created by the code generator. These are the same messages that get displayed in the Messages window of MapForce.
GenerateCppCode	Generates C++ code that will perform the mapping. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateJavaCode	Generates Java code that will perform the mapping. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateOutput	Generates all output files defined in the mapping using a MapForce internal mapping language. The names of the output files are defined as properties of the output items in the mapping. Note: This method can only be used when the MapForce (running as a COM server) main window is visible, or is embedded with a graphical user interface. If the method is called while MapForce is not visible, then an error will occur.
GenerateOutputEx	Generates all output files defined in the mapping using a MapForce internal mapping language. The names of the output files are defined as properties of the output items in the mapping. This method is identical to GenerateOutput except for its return value containing the resulting messages, warnings and errors arranged as trees of AppOutputLines. Note: This method can only be used when the MapForce (running as a COM server) main window is visible, or is embedded with a graphical user interface. If the method is called while MapForce is not visible, then an error will occur.
GenerateXQuery	Generates mapping code as XQuery. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateXSLT	Generates mapping code as XSLT. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateXSLT2	Generates mapping code as XSLT2. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
GenerateXSLT3	Generates XSLT 3.0 mapping code. Uses the properties defined in Application.Options to configure code generation.
HighlightSerializedMarker	Use this method to highlight a location in a mapping file that has been previously serialized. If the corresponding document is not already loaded, it will be loaded first. See GenerateCodeEx for a method to retrieve a serialized marker.
Save	Saves the document to the file defined by Document.FullName.
SaveAs	Saves the document to the specified file name, and sets Document.FullName to this value if the save operation was successful.

Events

Name	Description
OnDocumentClosed	This event is triggered when a document is closed. The document object passed into the event handler should not be accessed. The corresponding open event is Application.OnDocumentOpened.
OnModifiedFlagChanged	This event is triggered when a document's modification status changes.