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Chapter 2 - How to use the Field Name Mapper
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The field name mapper allows synonyms that more accurately depicts the field's contents. This is convenient if one data element historically was given more than one field name, or the field name is not sufficiently clear.

In the example below, the field name mapper uses the Synonym CompanyName instead of the original dBase name of COMP_NAME.

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Notice how legacy information has been converted to Notes-style field names! When the Sentinel Data Integrator imports this data into Notes, it reads and uses the synonyms as field names. This is great for unifying all historical data names.

The following screen is from FieldMap.nsf