Parameters of the Phone generator

After you add the Phone generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.

When you click the Phone generator of a specific field in the Data definition in the edit branch, the unique parameters of the Phone generator that contains the existing configuration details for that field are displayed in the Phone dialog.

The following table provides the list of UI elements of the Phone dialog with their default parameters, and the actions that you can perform in the dialog to customize the parameters for the selected field:

UI element Description Default feature Action
The Generator field Displays the name of the selected generator, that is, Phone. The name is not editable. NA
The Distribution field Determines if the phone numbers are randomly generated in the corresponding column of the test data. Contains the Random option. The Random option is selected.

  • Do not perform any action if you want the phone numbers, when generated in the test data, to follow a random distribution.

  • Clear the Random option if you want the phone numbers to follow a fixed distribution and to be non-random.

    When you clear the option, the Percentage fields of all the existing configurations become editable. You can thereby set a fixed distribution for the phone numbers using the Percentage field.

    For example, if you set the percentage distribution of 30% to a configuration that contains a specific patter with UK as the country and 70% to another configuration that contains another pattern with France as the country, then the column of the phone number of the generated data displays the values accordingly.
The Duplicates field Determines if duplicate or unique phone numbers are present in the generated data. Contains the Allowed option. The Allowed option is selected.
  • Do not perform any action if you want the generated phone numbers to include duplicate entries.
  • Clear the Allowed option if you want to ensure unique phone numbers with no duplicates. This will prevent any duplicate phone numbers from appearing in the generated data.
The Blank percentage field Determines the frequency of blank phone numbers in the generated data. Displays 0 and is editable.

Enter a number from 0 to 100.

For example, if you enter 10, approximately 10% of the phone numbers in the generated data will be blank.
The Name field Displays the custom name of the selected configuration. Displays Default and is editable. Enter an identifiable name to the selected configuration, if required.
The Percentage field Determines the proportion of the generated phone numbers when you do not select the Random option. Editable when Random is not selected.

If you did not select the Random option for distribution, enter a number from 0 to 100 in the Percentage field to set the percentage of phone numbers to be generated.

For example, if you enter 50, the generated data will display the phone numbers column with a 50% occurrence rate.
The Format list Determines the desired format for the generated phone numbers. NA Select a specific format from the list.
The Country list Determines the country for which you want to generate phone numbers. <Not sure why this list is provided. Selecting or not selecting from this list has no changes in the generated data - Need to confirm with the team> NA Select a specific country name from the list.
The Add new configuration tab You can add additional phone number configurations with specific components and settings, if required.
  • The Name field displays Configuration-1 and is editable.
  • The Percentage field is editable when the Random option is not selected.
  • The Format and Country fields display the same values that were provided in the previous configuration.

Click the tab and then add the required components for the additional configuration.

For example, you can have one configuration for colors with a fixed distribution, and another configuration for shapes with a random distribution. You can similarly customize the values, distribution, and percentage as required.

Note: You can click the delete icon Delete icon to delete any additional configuration that you do not need.
The Save to catalog option After the customization of the Phone generator is complete, you can use the Phone generator as the base generator to create a new custom generator. NA

Click the Save to catalog icon .

You can thereby reuse the same configuration at a later time in different scenarios without having to set it up again from the scratch. See Creating custom generators and categories from Data definitions.
The close icon NA NA Click the icon to exit the Phone generator dialog.
Note: The total percentage displayed in the Percentage fields of all the configurations in the Phone generator should be equal to 100.