Email Data Generator

1. Click on any node of the flowchart > click on Automate > Go to Entities tab.
2. Select $user entity on the left pane.
3. Select email attribute on the left pane.
4. Select the sub tab Data Generator
   Notice that Flowcharts has detected the value as an email and separated it into meaningful tokens like name, domain etc.
   You can add more names and domains to generate more emails.
5. Of particular interest for us is the add-timestamp field. Let us set it to true.
   This will add a timestamp to the email and make it unique for each run.

6. Check the sample values by using the Refresh Preview button .
7. Click on Save Entity.

Text Data Generator

1. Select the attribute name: firstname
2. Set the parameters as shown here :

3. Check the sample values by using the Refresh Preview button .
4. Click on Save Entity button.

Other Data Generators

info There are various types of Data Generators. We can choose the Data Generator type which best suits the attribute. Each Data Generator type has its own parameters.

Date: To generate date between the given range and in the desired format.
• From/To: Minimum and Maximum dates can be selected from the calendar icon.
• Relative maximum and minimum dates can be set.
  Example: To generate dates for next one year
  • From= today
  • To= tomorrow+365
  Similarly, 'yesterday' and 'minus' symbol can also be used.
• format: Date format can be set such as dd-mm-yyyy.
1. Number: To generate number based data/series with or without extra characters.
   • prefix: Any alphabet, number or special character to put in the starting of the number
   • min-value/max-value: Range of the number
   • decimals: Number of decimal digits
   • separator: Character to use as a unit separator
   • decimal-separator: Character to use instead of dot for decimal numbers
   • suffix: Characters to add at the end of the number
2. Boolean: To generate a value among true and false.
   • default-value: Value can be chosen from the three options available in the list- random, false or true.
3. Phone: To generate phone number with desired country or area code in given format.
   • formats: Type the phone number format along with the country/area code.
   • The symbol x can be used to generate random digit.
4. Simple-text: To generate any text based data with an option to mask it.
   • text: Provide a set of alphanumeric characters. The value gets hardcoded.
   • is-password: Set preference to mask the text on UI.
   • Once the is-password is set to [/icode]true[/icode], the value in text field gets masked and can not be unmasked. If the [is-password[/icode] is changed back to false, the text field gets reset.
5. List: To generate a list based on a given set. The list is generated based on the hierarchy of the other lists to which it is referring to. It can be understood with the help of an address entity. This entity consists of three attributes: country, state and city.
   1. Select country attribute and select Data Generator Type - list.
      • Type a few country names in values field.
      
   2. Select state attribute and select Data Generator Type - list.
      Set the fields as follows:
      • sync-with: Select country
      • sync-items: Select a country name from the list.
      • values: Type few state names.
      • Enter few state names for each country.
      
   3. Select city attribute and select Data Generator Type - list.
      Set the fields as follows:
      • sync-with: Select state
      • sync-items: Select a state name from the list. Select the state name from the next list.
      • values: Type a few city names.
      • Enter a few city names for each state under each country.
      
   Now, the data generator will generate a complete address where city, state and country are in sync.