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Quote Column Name in Tool

zqlcancer
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

 

I am studying ‘Email’ tool and downloaded a  sample file from community. I noticed in the workflow used ‘Report Text’ tool to create a header and in ‘Text Data’ filed it says [Department:A]. I can see ‘Department’ is the column name of original data but I don’t understand why it adds ‘:A’ behind column name, is this a wild card? Seems to me [Department] is enough. Any advice is much appreciated.Capture.JPG

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @zqlcancer 

 

:A is the format for all strings which means auto and :0 is the format for numeric where 0 is number of decimal points. Only fo double it shows the options for decimal points like below

 

atcodedog05_0-1643014690918.png

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_1-1643014704440.png

 

Hope this helps : )

zqlcancer
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for sharing, I did not realize I can select avaialbe fields from drop down list. I manually inputted field name but it seems like the workflow can run without error. i.e. in my case I only inputted [Department].

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Happy to help : ) @zqlcancer 

If my response helps please don't forget to mark it as solution.

Cheers and have a nice day!

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