Bind to value
Defining a hard-coded value that will be used every time the data-flo is run
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Defining a hard-coded value that will be used every time the data-flo is run
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If the same value will be used every time the data-flo is run, then you can use 'Bind to value' and hard-code that input.
A few of the many use cases:
Defining a set of columns to be passed to the next adaptor
Naming a column
Defining a regular expression (RegEx) to identify specific values
Setting a numeric threshold for a filtering adaptor when the threshold doesn't change from day to day
TIP: if you add a bind-to-value and don’t type anything into the box, it assumes you’re binding to an empty value.
Select the argument to bring up Binding Types
Select "Bind to a value" to bring up the VALUE
This image shows "Bind to a value" interface for map, number, boolean, and text arguments.
When a wildcard or pattern-matching value is desired, you can use 'Bind to a value' and use a regular expression as the value. In the image above, the search-text adaptor is used with a regular expression to find all instances of a hyphen in the text input.
Sometimes, you have a value in "bind to a value" you don't want others to see (e.g. passwords and tokens), so you can't share the data-flo as-is. In this case, you need to switch to " Convert to secret input" in the value menu.
When you click the "REMOVE BINDING" button, the argument reverts to its defaults or reverts to blank**.**
If you do not "remove binding" and simply leave the "value" field empty, your argument remains bound to a blank (null,empty) value.
