Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Develop > Developer Reference > Creating Discovery and Integration Adapters > Developing Generic Adapters > Achieving Data Population using the Generic Adapter > Automatic Link Population

Automatic Link Population

In the mapping sample in Population Mapping Files, we saw what is needed to explicitly map a populated link. A mapped target entity must be present for each TQL link element, such as the one shown below:

Using the Generic Adapter automatic link population mechanism, we no longer need to map the TQL link elements with mapping sections such as the one shown above. The framework will generate a link CI instance of the type specified in the TQL with empty properties. This operation will be performed for all the links in the population TQL query.

The sample mapping results in a link CI of type composition being created that has as link ends (end1 and end2) the Node and Running Software CI instances.

You should use Manual Link Population if the link you are populating requires:

Dynamic link type (using the type attribute)
Link properties

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