When building a map, you start with the Mercator desktop application called Map Designer. From the desktop, you are able to compile the map and run it right from your PC. However, you will most likely run your map in production through a different platform. In that case, you need to compile and transfer your map to that platform. This document only contains instructions for development in the desktop environment. For instructions on testing your map in the UNIX platform.
1. Open Mercator Map Designer.
2. Choose “Create a new map source file” and click OK.
3. Name the file using a project, team, and application identifier.
4. Change the folder to Development folder and then to your team subfolders as appropriate.
Click Save.
5. Click the New map icon.
6. Name the map with the direction and the application as appropriate. For example, Inbound_MM means the map will be sending data into SAP (direction), and the data is Material Master (application).
