XML Structure Tab: Group Column

Applies to: Marshalling data to XML only

Available: For mapped nodes only. When you have placed a checkmark in the "Combined Node" column for an element, for each child element that is mapped to a DB column or expression and shows a combined status, either directly set or inherited.

Possible values:

	Not currently set. You may check this node to group occurrences of this node in the XML output from the marshalling operation.
	Occurrences of this node will be grouped together in the results of the marshal operation.

Explanation

Summary | Examples

You can set this option on child elements of an element where Combined Node has been set. The engine uses the tag name to identify which nodes should be grouped together in the XML output.

Examples

Summary | Explanation

	Marshal with Combine Project	Overview of the project used in examples below.
1.	Marshal Without Combine	No settings have been made in the XML Structure tab
2.	Marshal with Combine	XML output combines all PurchaseOrder nodes that have a matching value for the OrderID node.
3.	Marshal with Combine and Group	XML output groups all matching elements (LineItem) together
4.	Marshal with Combine and Order By	XML output contains records retrieved from the database using an ORDER BY clause
5.	Marshal with Optimized Combine	XML output generated using the Optimized Combine feature in the XML Structure tab.

XML Structure Tab: Group Column

Explanation

Examples

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