Flow Designer Guide

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  • Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Browser behavior
    • Accessing Spectrum Flow Designer
    • Field data formats
      • Automatic Data Type Conversion
      • Reserved Field Names
    • Data Types
    • Flow Designer Home page
      • Application toolbar - Home page
      • The canvas
      • List and work with saved flows
    • Explorer page
      • Icons, toolbar, and controls - Explorer page
      • Paging controls - Explorer page
      • Task buttons - Explorer page
    • New Flow page
    • Flow Editor page
      • Toolbar and controls (Edit Job page)
    • Profile page
    • Types of Flows
    • Starting a new Flow
    • Introduction to stages
      • Input and Read from File stages
        • Input stage types
          • File tab
          • Sort tab
          • Runtime tab
            • Managing malformed input records
      • Control Stages
        • Broadcaster
        • Record Combiner
        • Record Joiner
        • Sorter
          • How Flow Designer sorts data
      • Flow Output
        • Output details
          • File tab
          • Sort tab
          • Runtime tab
      • Creating a Custom Transform
  • Components of Flows
    • Types of Flows
    • Starting a new Flow
    • Flow Input
      • Defining Job Input
      • Managing malformed input records
    • Input stage types
      • File tab
      • Sort tab
      • Runtime tab
        • Managing malformed input records
    • Flow Output
      • Output details
        • File tab
        • Sort tab
        • Runtime tab
  • Building, testing, and running flows
    • Designing and building flows
      • Configure input stages
        • Configure the Read from File Stage
          • Configure the File tab details - Read from File
          • Configure the Sort tab details - Read from File
          • Configure the Runtime tab details - Read from File
        • Configure the Input stage
          • Configure the File tab details - Input stage
          • Configure the Sort tab details - Input stage
          • Configure the Runtime tab details - Input stage
        • Configure the Read from XML Stage for Subflows
      • Configuring Control stages
        • Creating and configuring data transformations
          • Transformer Options page
          • Creating a Custom Transform
        • Channel Mapping
          • Mapping details page
            • View mapping details
            • Manually map fields
            • Change (re-map) fields
            • Unmap fields
            • Defining Data Type conversion for mapped fields
        • Configuring Record Combiner stage
        • Record Joiner
        • Configure the Sorter stage
          • Change order of sort fields
        • Unique ID Generator
          • Defining a Unique ID
          • Using Algorithms to Augment a Unique ID
          • Defining a Non-Unique ID
      • Configuring output stages
        • Configuring the Output/Write to File stage
          • Configure the File tab details - Write to File
          • Configure the Sort tab details - Write to File
          • Configure the Runtime tab details - Write to File
      • Inspecting and testing flows
        • Checking a Flow for Errors
        • Inspecting a flow
        • Testing a service with Spectrum Management Console
      • Running flows
        • Run a job or flow using the Run Jobs button
        • Run jobs or flows from the Execution History panel
    • Deleting flows
    • Exposing flows
    • Importing flows
      • Importing flows - import button method
      • Importing flows - drag-drop method
    • Exporting flows
      • Exporting the latest saved version of a flow - Explorer page
      • Exporting the latest saved version of a flow - Editor page
      • Exporting the exposed version of a flow
    • Running an External Program
    • Using the template browser to create flows and jobs
      • Flow templates
      • Create a new job, service, or subflow on a blank canvas
      • Create a new job, service, or subflow from a template
  • Stages Reference
    • Flow Designer stages
    • Control
      • Aggregator
      • Broadcaster
      • Conditional Router
      • Group Statistics
      • Math
      • Record Combiner
      • Record Joiner
      • Sorter
      • Splitter
      • Stream Combiner
      • Transformer
        • Transformer stage transform types
      • Unique ID Generator
    • Sources
      • Read from File
        • Configure the Read from File Stage
      • Read from XML
        • Configure the Read from XML Stage for Subflows
      • Read from Variable Format File
    • Sinks
      • Execute Program
      • Terminate Job
      • Write to File
      • Write to Null
      • Write to XML
    • Module Stages
      • Context Graph
        • Context Graph Stages
        • Delete from Model
          • Delete from Model ports
          • Delete from Model options
            • General options
            • Delete entities options
            • Delete relationships options
        • Query Model
          • How to
            • Add the Query Model stage to a workflow
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Query Model options
              • Input Fields tab
              • Output Fields tab
        • Write to Model
          • How to
            • Create a new model
            • Update an existing model
            • Use the model schema to update an existing model
            • Configure a new entity type
            • Configure an existing entity type
            • Configure new relationships
            • Configure existing relationships
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Write to Model options
            • Indexes
            • Entity Configuration
            • Relationship Configuration
          • Example Context Graph Dataflows
            • Write to Model with flat file input
            • Write to Model with XML input
      • Data Stewardship
        • Data Stewardship stages
        • Exception Monitor
          • How to
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Options tab
            • Settings tab
      • Enterprise Data Integration
      • Data Quality
      • Machine Learning
        • Binning
          • How to
            • Add Binning to workflow
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Binning Properties tab
            • Basic Options tab
        • Logistics Regression
          • How to
            • Add Logistics Regression to workflow
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Model Properties tab
            • Basic Options tab
            • Advanced Options tab
            • Model Output tab
        • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
          • How to
            • Add Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to workflow
          • Reference
            • Stage ports
            • Model Properties tab
            • Basic Options tab
            • Advanced Options tab
            • Output tab
  • File properties reference
    • Supported character encoding methods
    • Field separators
    • Record separators
  • Supported data types reference
    • Data types
  • Date and time patterns reference
    • Date and time patterns