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Operational Controls

Process ARS Queries and SQL Queries.
 
Process ASCII files:
   Fixed length transactional, or,
   Delimited, quoted, line-spanning.
 
Create records or Query for the Update Record;
Create if not found.
 
Loop through Diary Field entries and permissions lists.
 
Query for and load related records.
 
Skip update if no changes detected.
Use Merge or Submit.
 
Follow chains of related records.
Launch other, nested, operations.
 


All workflow is fired and all ARS permissions are respected.
 
Use Meta-Update as a batch facility: from workflow, scripts, timed-jobs, manually.
 
Create file imports with queries, lookups, data translations, easily and quickly.
 
Perform migrations to different versions or different products.
 
Reduce your workflow's complexity.
 

Assignment Controls

Use all loaded ARS and File data in assignments.
 
Full, nested, conditional assignments.
 
Automatic type conversions.
 
Perform data translations and lookups. Concatenate fields, constants. Apply edit transforms to values.
 
Use pattern matching regular expressions to select and modify data.
 
Copy all matching fields between records in the same or different schema.
 
Spawn external processes. Cancel operation. Perform server operations.