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title: "Creating Composite Type in Truth Table"
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# Creating Composite Type in Truth Table

## Overview

A Truth Table receives user data and evaluates it against configured conditions based on input data. A Truth Table can create a data type to represent combined outputs called a Composite Type. It is used to output multiple rows of a Truth Table with multiple outputs.

## Example

The following example will take in a Zip Code and output the city and state as a composite type.

1. In the Designer Project, click CREATE RULE and select CREATE. Click **Truth Table** and select **External** **Truth Table**. Name the External Truth Table and click CREATE.
2. Click SETUP INPUT DATA.  
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3. In the **Input Data** window, enter "Zip Code" in the **Name** field and change the **Type** to **Int32 [Number]**. Click **Save** and close the window.  
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4. Click **[Select Data Element]** and select **Zip Code**. Click CLOSE.  
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5. For **[Pick Verb]** window, select **Equals** and click CLOSE.  
  
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6. Hover over the **Default Output Data** column and click the pencil icon.
7. On the **Edit Output Data** window, enter "City" in the Name field and change the Type to **String [Text]**. Click OK.  
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8. Click the plus next to the City column and add a column with the name "State". Click OK.
9. On the **Properties** panel, click EDIT EXTERNAL DATA TRUTH TABLE.  
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10. Under **Data Sources** on the Report Designer, click **Add**. In the search box, enter "csv" and select CSV/Excel Data Source.  
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11. On the Properties panel under the [SETTINGS] category, click **Choose a File** under **CSV or Excel File**, Select a file and click OPEN.  
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12. Select the **Zip Code** Data Field under **Data Fields**. On the Properties panel under the SETTINGS category, change the **Title** to **Zip Code Equals**.  
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13. Click Save and close the Report Designer.
14. On the Properties panel of the Rule Designer, select the **Create Composite Type** option. Uncheck the **Has No Match Outcome** option under the Truth Table. Click Save and close the Truth Table.  
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15. In the Designer Project, click CREATE FLOW. Name the Flow and click CREATE.
16. Click the **Done** path of the **Start** step. Select the **Run Truth Table** step and click ADD.  
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17. On the Properties panel, select PICK OR CREATE TRUTH TABLE and select PICK. Locate the External Truth Table and click PICK.  
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18. Connect the Done path to the **End** Step.  
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19. Select the Run Truth Table step and enter "23325" in the Zip Code field under the INPUTS category.  
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20. Click Save to save changes to the Flow.

## Debug

1. On the top action bar, click **Debug** and click **START DEBUGGING.**
2. After the debugger runs, select the Truth Table step, select **Execution 1**, and select **View Input/Output Data**. A window will appear that will display the composite data created from the result of the input.