User`s guide

CHAPTER 6 Components
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4 Click Save to exit the component window.
5 Connect the component with the OUT-Port of an adjacent component.
6 Click Open to open the Text Data Sink component window and verify the
result. You may add or remove columns and reassign the port structure.
Exporting and importing File Definitions files
Use the Export command in the Properties menu to save your current settings
to a file definition file. Use the Import command in the Properties menu to load
an existing file definition file that has been previously created with the Export
command.
Modifying the port structure (delimited files)
When modifying the column structure within the Text Data Sink component
window you can recreate the current port structure or assign a new port
structure.
To select a new port structure, click the Assign Port Structure button.
To go back to the current IN-port structure, click the Regenerate Column
Definition button.
Working with fixed-length files
After selecting one of the fixed-length file types, you must create the columns
and provide the position parameters of each column.
❖ To add columns to the output
1 Click Open to open the Text Data Sink component window.
2 Click Insert a New Attribute. You may edit the name of the generated
column.
❖ To remove columns from the output
1 Click the Open button to open the Text Data Sink component window.
2 Click Remove.