Adding a context group to your job

A job will not automatically use a context group. This exercise shows how to add a context group to a job.

Getting ready

Open the jo_cook_ch06_0010_addContextGroup job.

How to do it...

The steps for adding a context group to your job are as follows:

1. Open the context panel, and click on the context icon shown as follows:

   

2. You will then be presented with the list of available context groups.

3. Select cookbookDB, and then Ok.

4. You will now see that the cookbookDB context variables have been added as read-only variables into the job.

How it works…

The context dialogue within a job allows single (in job) contexts, as well as context groups, to be added to a job.

There’s more…

The preceding method shows how to add all context variables into a job. There is also an option to add only a subset of the variables within the group, if you drill down into the context group when selecting, demonstrated as follows:

Tip

Another method of adding the context to the job from the metadata is...