Mapping your data by applying smart suggestions

When you populate fields for the actions in your flows, generate suggested mappings by using artificial intelligence (AI) features.

1. In App Connect Designer, add an action to your flow and ensure that you're connected to your account for the application.
   If the action is for a target application where data can be mapped from a previous node in your flow, you can generate mapping suggestions.

   
2. To generate suggestions, click Generate mapping suggestions.
   Mapping Assist discovers potential mappings, which you can preview before you apply any or all of them. Alternatively, you can click Cancel to exit from the preview mode without applying any of the suggested mappings.

   
3. If any of the mappings are inappropriate, you can clear them individually by clicking Clear suggestion.
   If you clear a suggestion, the field becomes empty, but you can't create a new mapping that field until you've either applied or canceled the mapping suggestions.

   
4. After you review the suggestions and clear any that are inappropriate, accept the remaining suggestions by clicking Apply suggestions.
   If you clear any suggestions, or delete any suggested mappings after you apply them, you can still preview (and then apply) suggestions for those fields. In the following example, two suggested mappings for the "Name" and "Street address" fields have been deleted, therefore two mapping suggestions are available to preview.

   

   If you map one of those fields manually with data from a preceding node in your flows, the number of suggestions decreases. In this example, if you map the "Name" field manually, one mapping suggestion remains to be previewed for the "Street address" field.
5. After you apply the suggested mappings, review any fields that don't contain mappings and, if necessary, map source data to these fields manually.
   To replace a suggested mapping with a different mapping, you can also use the same steps after you delete the suggested mapping.
   1. When you click in an unmapped field, if suggested mappings are available for this field, the Suggested mappings list is opened.
      Alternatively, click Insert a mapping to open the Suggested mappings list.
      The list might include semantic mappings (which are indicated by the mapping rating icon ) and community mappings (which are indicated by the community rating icon ). If you disable social learning, you won't see any community mappings. For more information, see Mapping Assist overview.
   2. Select the appropriate mapping.
      You can view the predicted accuracy percentage of the map by hovering over the rating or community icon.
      The following example shows that a community mapping and a semantic mapping are suggested for the "Name" field. When you hover over the community icon, you see that the community mapping has a rating of 85%, which is based on the same source-to-target mappings in the App Connect user community.

      
   3. To choose from a wider range of mappings, click All mappings to switch to the Available mappings list, which displays all mappings from all the previous nodes in the flow.
      Expand the sections to locate and select your required mapping.
   4. If your source and target data formats don't match, click Transform data format to use the transformation generator to construct JSONata expressions that convert your source data to the required target format.
      For more information, see Transforming data with the transformation generator.

      
6. If no mapping suggestions are discovered for an action in your flow, the number of mapping suggestions to preview is zero.
   

   • If suggested mappings are available, you can use the Suggested mappings list to select mappings.
   • If no suggested mappings are found, click Insert a mapping to choose a mapping from the Available mappings list.