Excel

Folder Path

Required

Points to the path along which the files are present

String value (eg:folder/subfolder)

File Name

Required

Specify the File Name. In cases where the user doesn’t remember complete name of file, specify file name match type using the operator which takes values as 'Exact, Startswith, Endswith, and Contains'.

String value (eg:abc.csv)

Default Value: Exact (For the operator)

Sheet Name

Required

Specify the Sheet Name.

String value (eg:Sheet1)

Default Value: Sheet1

Process All Matching Files

Required

Select Yes or No, depending on if all matching files are to be processed or not

{Yes,No}

Default Value: No

File Selection Criteria

Dependant

Required

(If Process All Files in Folder = NO)

Choose File’s creation or modification Date

{Date Created,Date Modified}

Default Value: Date Modified

Header Column Present

Required

Choose Yes or No depending on if the file has a header column or not

{Yes,No}

Default Value: No

Header Row

Dependant

Required

(If Header Columns are Present = Yes)

Specify the row number at which header is present in the file

Integer value (eg:1)

Data Row

Optional

Specify the row number from which data starts

Integer value (eg:(2))

Attempt Schema Inference

Required

If Yes then value types will be fetched as it is, eg: Float will be fetched as float. If No then everything will be fetched as string irrespective of its type.

{Yes,No}

Default Value: No

Insert Mode

Required

Specifies the manner in which data will get updated in the data warehouse : Upsert will insert only new records or records with changes, Append will insert all fetched data at the end, Replace will drop the existing table and recreate a fresh one on each run.

{Upsert, Append, Replace}

Default Value: Replace

Key

Dependant

Required

(If Upsert is chosen as the Insert Mode Type)

Enter the column name based on which data is to be upserted.

String value

Container Name

Required

Enter the container name in lowercase.

String value

Compressed

Required

Choose Yes or No depending on the file compression

{Yes,No}

Default Value: No

Compression Type

Dependant

Required (If Compressed = Yes)

Specify the file compression type

{Zip,Gzip}

Default Value: Zip

Post Processing Action

Required

Action to be performed once the file processing has been completed

{No Action,Move Files}

Default Value: No Action

Move File Destination

Dependant

Required

(If Post Processing Actions = Move Files)

Specify the folder where the files are to be moved

String value (eg:test_folder/)

Footer

Optional

Specify the row number containing the footer, data after this row will not be extracted

Integer value (eg:10)

File Encoding

Required

Specify the encoding type of the file which will be used to decode the file

String value (eg:utf-8)

Include Source File Name

Required

Set this parameter to 'YES' if you want to include source file name in the data warehouse.

{Yes,No}

Default Value: No