Guidelines for field mappings

• •When you map input fields, map all required fields from data providers.
• •When you map output fields, map all required business entity fields or relationships in a hierarchy model.
• •To enrich the existing entries of a field group, ensure that you map the field group as one of the input fields. For example, if you want to enrich the existing Phone field group entries, you must map the Phone field group as an input field.
• •When you map fields, ensure that the data types of the mapped fields are compatible.
The following table lists the data types of fields that are compatible:

Data types of data provider fields	Data types of business entity fields and hierarchy models
String	String, Picklist
Integer	Integer, Double, Decimal, String
Double	Double, Decimal, String
Decimal	Decimal, String
Boolean	Boolean, String
Date and time	Date and time, String
Date	Date, String
Picklist	String