LDIF Input

Description

LDIF is short for LDAP Data Interchange Format. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF. The LDIF Input transform reads information from such files.

Options

Files Tab

Option	Description
Transform name	Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.
Files origin	Get filename from field? : the previous transform is giving filenames in a certain field in the input stream. These are read. Filename field : specify the field to the filenames from.
File or directory	Specifies the location and/or name of the input text file.
Regular expression	Specifies the regular expression you want to use to select the files in the directory specified in the previous option.
Selected Files	Contains a list of selected files (or wildcard selections) and a property specifying if file is required or not. If a file is required and it is not found, an error is generated;otherwise, the file name is skipped.
Show filenames(s)…	Displays a list of all files that will be loaded based on the current selected file definitions .

Option

Description

Transform name

Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline.

Files origin

Get filename from field? : the previous transform is giving filenames in a certain field in the input stream. These are read.
Filename field : specify the field to the filenames from.

File or directory

Specifies the location and/or name of the input text file.

Regular expression

Specifies the regular expression you want to use to select the files in the directory specified in the previous option.

Selected Files

Contains a list of selected files (or wildcard selections) and a property specifying if file is required or not. If a file is required and it is not found, an error is generated;otherwise, the file name is skipped.

Show filenames(s)…

Displays a list of all files that will be loaded based on the current selected file definitions .

Content Tab

Option

Description

Include filename in output?

Allows you to specify a field name to include the file name (String) in the output of this transform.

Rownum in output

Allows you to specify a field name to include the row number (Integer) in the output of this transform.

Include content type?

Allows you to specify a field name to include the content type (String) in the output of this transform.

Limit

Limits the number of rows to this number (zero (0) means all rows).

Multi valued field separator

For multi-valued content fields, you can specify a separator here. (default is a comma)

Result filenames

Add files to result filename : Adds the XML filenames read to the result of this pipeline. A unique list is being kept in memory that can be used in the next workflow action in a workflow, for example in another pipeline.

Fields

Option

Description

Name

The name of the output field

Attribute

The attribute to read

Type

The data type to convert to

Format

The format or conversion mask to use in the data type conversion

Length

The length of the output data type

Precision

The precision of the output data type

Currency

The currency symbol to use during data type conversion

Decimal

The numeric decimal symbol to use during data type conversion

Group

The numeric grouping symbol to use during data type conversion

Trim type

The type of trimming to use during data type conversion

Repeat

Repeat the column value of the previous row if the column value is empty (null)