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Help with Dynamic Rename tool

mauricio
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

I'm using the Dynamic Rename tool with the option "take field description from right imput rolls" to load the metadata into my spread sheet.

There seems to be a bug where the configurations of the tool are reseted every time I load my workflow.

The right imput is from a text imput tool, and the left is from a in-db data steam out.

Does someone know a workaround to this? It is realy anoying have to reconfigure the tool every time I run the workflow.

 

Regards.

 

Before saving and loading the workflow:

<Configuration>
<RenameMode>RightDescriptionRows</RenameMode>
<Fields orderChanged="False">
<Field name="*Unknown" />
</Fields>
<Expression />
<DescFromRows>
<OnError>Ignore</OnError>
<InputMode>Mapped</InputMode>
<OldName>FIELD_NAME</OldName>
<NewName>FIELD_DESCRIPTION</NewName>
</DescFromRows>
</Configuration>

 

After saving and loading workflow

<Configuration>
<RenameMode>RightDescriptionRows</RenameMode>
<Fields orderChanged="False">
<Field name="*Unknown" />
</Fields>
<Expression />
<DescFromRows>
<OnError>Ignore</OnError>
<InputMode>Mapped</InputMode>
<OldName />
</DescFromRows>
</Configuration>

 

 

 

 

 

1 REPLY 1
Sebastiaandb
12 - Quasar

@mauricio 

 

I had this once! I opened the workflow in notepad++ and just adjusted the values in the XML code of the workflow. After that it wouldn't forget the metadata anymore. I can imagine that this is a really annoying issue!

 

Good luck!

 

Seb

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