Are there any automatic identification of attributes?

We do several things to help with comment mapping.

1. Exact matching to a “condition” (Attribute) by name.

2. Match to a user defined alias for a condition name. For example, “Four Wheel Drive” would have the alias 4WD.

3. Match conditions using regex patterns with substitutions. For example, 2 Door | 2 Dr. | 2 Dr

4. Exact matching to NAPA “comments”.

5. Provide additional string substitutions (“replace rules”) to perform on source notes to match comments. For example, change “A/T” to “Automatic Transmission”.

6. Modify the source notes with “rewrite rules” defined using regex. These rewrite rules can be used to reformat dates, add a “w/ ” to the beginning of a comment, etc. This is somewhat like the qualifier patterns in AceMapper.

For finer grained mapping, we’ve also added the following features:

• NAPA body style includes both body type and body doors (2 Door Coupe). We break these up into separate Body Doors and Body Type values for mapping. In other words you can map to Coupe or 4 Door.

• The Engine Qualifier contains many different types of information. We pull out Engine Designation, Values, Engine Version and Cylinder Head Type into their own conditions for mapping. The user can then map to Engine Qualifier if necessary or map to other attributes in the Qualifier string.

• NAPA models and submodels are Make specific. To simplify mapping we’ve pulled out make, model and submodel names to create make-independent conditions.

Hope this helps show some of the power and thought we’ve put into solving the mapping problem.