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Analytic App with multiple lines in text input tool

goutdelete
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

 

I have a workflow where I need to let users to input multiple lines in Text Input tool to pass through the workflow.  The line items are unknown (can be anything, 2, 5, 10.. etc).  For some reason I seem to try everything that I can from update cell to update value but the action just didn't seem to update the value.

 

I created a sample/ simple workflow here - I have two rows in my workflow but say I want to test with 3 rows with:

12345
23456
56789

 

With my sample workflow I should've got:

RecordIDAccount
112345
223456
356789

 

What went wrong with my workflow in configuration?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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OTrieger
13 - Pulsar

@goutdelete 
The WF is working as intended, and it is replacing the values. What you need to know is that all the values that you will enter in the Text Input Tool will replace the value in the top cell, all of them will be in that cell, so you need to add a Text To Column tool and split the data into rows.

There should be only 1 cell in the Text Input tool.

OTrieger
13 - Pulsar

If you want to see if a user interface tool working correctly you can run the WF in Open Debug and see how the data is flowing into the flow, this can help you understand what goes wrong and if any of the user interface tools working or set correctly.

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@goutdelete one way of doing this

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