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Link States

The Run Links dialog box lists all links (Local or System) that are available with your open Contributor grid and the status of those links.

Links can exist in two states: Ready or Incomplete .

The Ready icon appears when the link definition is correctly defined. All source dimensions are mapped to a target dimension or at least one item from each unmapped source and target dimension is selected. You can run a link only if it is in a ready state.

The Incomplete icon  appears when the link definition is not defined correctly or when it is incomplete. You cannot run a link if the load definition is incomplete. The link definition may not be complete because