In this section, you will learn about the result filelist, which is a list of files in memory. The purpose of having a result filelist is to apply some operation on the whole set of files in a single step. The kind of operation you can apply ranges from copying the list of files to a new location, to sending the files attached in an email.
In this section, you will learn the ways PDI offers to add or remove files from that custom list, and then you will see a couple of use cases where you can use it.
You might have noticed that most of the output PDI steps have a checkbox named Add filenames to result, which is checked by default. What this checkbox does, as the name implies, is it adds the name of the generated file to the filelist in memory.
Besides this automatic behavior, there are other ways to add files to the list, and also to remove them. The following table summarizes the steps used to add files to the list:
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