Working with many Mapping Rules

Do you have hundreds of rules in your Mapping Configuration? Does it deter you from reviewing and processing outstanding changes in your template or project files?

The good news is it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You can easily pause all mappings and address an acute problem or delete a few properties without having to process your entire mapping configuration.

This works great for taking "smaller bites" and processing changes on a handful of rules or going tab by tab.

In the screenshot below, we have a whopping 608 changes to review for this file.

Navigate to the upper right hand corner of the Project Properties dialog to the Settings dropdown menu. At the very bottom of the menu is an option to Remove mappings from rules (session only).
This setting will temporarily remove the mapping rules that are applied to this project, freeing you to create a few new mappings and process them immediately or to systematically reinstate rules a few at a time. See screenshot below:

Notice that after we select the Remove mappings from rules button, all the properties that had mapping rules applied above have been removed and replaced with [This time only] and the number of changes to review is 0.

With a clean slate, we can pick and choose a handful of mappings to process. In the screenshot below, we have selected three patterns to review and process.

After we selected those 3 patterns, we used the Remove mapping button to reinstate the temporary removal in this case. Those rules were then reapplied and now we have  just 3 changes to review, instead of 608.