Operation Template

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Last updated: Apr 22, 2022 by Lana Starchuk (Deactivated)
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Operations are the basic actions performed by the SIM in order to tokenize the data for internal processing.

There are two types of operations provided currently:

  • Unit of Measure Operator - this operator defines the unit to be tokenized

  • RegEx Operator - this helps in tokenizing the text based on the matching Regular Expression formula defined

 

To add a new Operation template:

Goto Workbench → SIM → Operation Template and click the Add Operation button. You will see this screen:

Follow the below process to create the template.

To create a Unit of Measure Operator:

Step 1: Give and name and optionally associate with a tag

Step 2: Select Unit of Measure Operator for the field Type:

Step 3: There are two other dropdown combo boxes displayed upon performing step 1.

For the Unit of Measure Type section, following are the available options - choose the required value.

Step 4: Select the unit of measure you would like to target. An example for length is as follows:

Step 5: Select the number of decimals unit of measure should be rounded to. You can pick to round to anywhere from 1 to 10 decimals. We recommend starting with 2 or 3 and adjusting if necessary:

 

A complete example of a Unit of Measure Operation Template is as below:

 

To create a RegEx Operator:

Step 1: Give and name and optionally associate with a tag

Step 2: Select RegEx Operator for the field Type

Step 3: Fill in your desired regular expression to match and replace.

Example:

 

This section helps create the re-usable templates to be used for the Normalizers.

Example, if we have the following Operation templates setup:

Then these will be available under normalizers when we click on Add Operation:

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