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MapToText Element

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Returns the name of the application in which a document was created, based on the file name extension and ProgID.

<MapToText>
    ProgID|File_Extension
</MapToText>

Attributes

Attribute

Description

None

N/A

Child Elements

Numerous

Parent Elements

Numerous

Occurrences

Minimum: 0

Maximum: Unbounded

Remarks

The MapToText element uses the following syntax, separating the ProgID from the file name extension with a pipe symbol ("|") in C# or with Or in Visual Basic:

<MapToText>ProgID|File_Extension </MapToText>

Example

The following example uses the MapToText element to assign the name of the application to an App variable.

<SetVar Name="App" Scope="Request">
   <MapToText>
      <Column Name="HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type" />
      <HTML>|</HTML>
      <Column Name="File_x0020_Type" />
   </MapToText>
</SetVar>