format fixed

Format Fixed

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Use When	Model based data needs to be formatted into fixed length text
Samples	Relational Database to Flat File
Description	The format fixed component takes a model based message and formats its content into a fixed length text message
Inbound Message Type	Model Based Message
Output Message Type	Text Based Message
Control Message Handling	Input: As entity messages are received this component will process the data. Output: A single control message will be forwarded to downstream components once all messages have been processed through this step.

Properties

Name	Description
Input Model
Error Suspense Step	Whether to forward failed messages and continue processing. This is the name of a linked component to forward the failed messages to.
Enabled
Header line	Whether a header line should be created that contains attribute column names
Log Input
Log Output
Inbound Queue Capacity

Component Editor

Double clicking on the Format Fixed component in the flow will result in the Format Fixed editor being displayed as shown below.

The editor displays a row for every entity and attribute in the input model, and allows setting the ordinal position and width of each attribute for the fixed length output. Order the attributes in the order in which they should be displayed in the delimited result. Attributes can be ordered by:

Attribute Ordering Options

• Selecting an attribute and dragging it up or down in the list

• Selecting an attribute clicking the "Move Up", "Move Down", "Move Top" or "Move Botton" buttons

• Selecting an attribute or set of attributes, clicking "Cut" to remove them and then "Pasting them elsewhere in the list

Set the width by typing the width in to the Width field. Start and end positions are automatically calculated based on the order and width.

In addition to specifying the order and width of the attributes, transform functions can also be applied to each attribute. These transform functions are good for applying formatting, etc.