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Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Schema design
A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
Functions and expressions
Lookup and reference functions
INDEXABS

Release Notes
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System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ Server.
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest™ Server. This guide is intended for new users.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Server software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration, user management, security, memory, and disk usage management, back up and restore user data. This guide is intended for administrators.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Files
  You add a file to a project to use it as input in the project. You can upload a file from your local file system to a project from the Files tab to generate test data. Alternatively, you can upload it when you define an action.
- Connections
  A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
- Schema design
  A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
  - Introduction to schema design
    Use the Schemas tab to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - Type properties
    The properties of a type define the characteristics of the data objects of that type.
  - Item restrictions
    Item restrictions are an optional feature you can use to specify valid or invalid data objects for an item type. Item restrictions are grouped into three categories: Value, Character, and Range.
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Functions and expressions
    - Expressions and evaluations
    - Using functions
    - Syntax of a function
    - Function argument syntax
    - Functions that convert character-set encoding to the native code page
    - General functions
    - Bidirectional functions
    - Bit manipulation and testing functions
    - Conversion functions
    - Date/time functions
    - Error handling functions
    - External interface functions
    - Inspection functions
    - Logical functions
    - Lookup and reference functions
      - CHOOSE
      - DBLOOKUP
      - DBQUERY
      - DDEQUERY
      - EXTRACT
      - GETANDSET
      - GETDIRECTORY
      - GETITXUID
        The GETITXUID function returns a universally unique identifier (UUID).
      - GETLOCALE
        The GETLOCALE function returns the locale setting of the computer.
      - GETFILENAME
      - GETPARTITIONNAME
      - GETRESOURCEALIAS
        The GETRESOURCEALIAS function returns the resource alias value specified in a Resource Registry resource name file (.mrn).
      - GETRESOURCENAME
      - GETTXINSTALLDIRECTORY
        The GETTXINSTALLDIRECTORY function returns the HCL OneTest™ Data product installation directory.
      - INDEX
      - INDEXABS
      - LASTERRORCODE
      - LASTERRORMSG
      - LOOKDOWN
      - LOOKUP
      - MEMBER
      - SEARCHDOWN
      - SEARCHUP
      - SORTDOWN
      - SORTDOWNBY
      - SORTUP
      - SORTUPBY
      - UNIQUE
      - GETENV
        The GETENV function returns the value of the environment variable. If no variable exists, an empty string is returned.
      - GETOSNAME
        The GETOSNAME function returns the name of the operating system.
    - Math and statistics functions
    - Text functions
    - XML functions
    - Custom functions
    - Date and time format strings
    - Number format strings
    - RUN function return codes
    - Character set codes for CPACKAGE, CSERIESTOTEXT, and CTEXT
Troubleshooting Guide
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ Server.
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Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices
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INDEXABS

You can use INDEXABS when you need the absolute occurrence of a particular object across all occurrences, rather than across only valid occurrences.

The INDEXABS function returns an integer that represents the index of an object relative to its nearest contained object, counting both valid and invalid instances of the object.

Syntax:: INDEXABS (single-object-name)
Meaning:: INDEXABS (object_for_which_to_get_index)
Returns:: A single integer

INDEXABS returns an integer that represents the absolute index of object_for_which_to_get_index. The integer indicates the instance this object that is in the set of all instances of the object, including both valid and invalid occurrences. Returns 0 if the input argument is "none".

If object_for_which_to_get_index is an input, this will be the index within all members of the series, including valid objects, invalid objects, and existing "none"s.
If object_for_which_to_get_index is an output, this will be the index within all existing members of the series, including existing "none"s.
The difference between INDEXABS and INDEX is that INDEXABS counts both valid and invalid instances, as well as existing "none"s, whereas INDEX counts only valid instances.

Examples

INDEXABS (Message Record:Order:PO_File)
For this example, that Order contains the following Messages:

Message Record[1] Valid

Message Record[2 Error

Message Record[3] Valid

In a map rule, INDEXABS (MessageRecord[3]:Order:PO_File) would evaluate to 3.

If the INDEX function was used, INDEX ( Message Record[3]:Order:PO ) would evaluate to 2.

Related function

INDEX