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Published inOct 2013
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ISBN-139781782167266
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Rick Barton
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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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Creating a context group


A context group is a set of (usually) related context variables for use within a project. This recipe shows how to create a new context group.

How to do it...

The steps for creating a context group are as follows:

  1. Open the metadata panel, and right-click on the context section.

  2. Select the Create context group option.

  3. Name the new group cookbookGeneral.

  4. Click on the Next button, and you will see the main context variable panel.

  5. Click on + to add a new variable and type in cookbookDirectory.

  6. Set the type to Directory.

  7. Now, click on the Values as a table tab, and click on the Default column for cookbookDirectory. Click on the icon.

  8. This will open a directory navigation window, so navigate to the cookbook data directory, and click on Finish.

How it works...

The context group is created in the metadata panel, and the individual context variables can then be added, along with their default values. Because we chose the type as Directory, Talend gives us the option of using a windows...

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Published in: Oct 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782167266

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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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