RCP and adding new columns to flow

newworld · Post by **newworld** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:26 am

juancho wrote:
Sainath.Srinivasan wrote:Insert one extra dummy column in the column generator stage and drop it in the modify.
But i wont be able to fill that column with the current date, am i right?

Just trying to understand here. If the requirement was to add the date column in RCP, then the column generator alone would accomplish right? Can someone explain why the step to drop the column in Modify is here?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:27 pm

No clue and the person that wrote that hasn't posted here in 4 years so we may never know. Besides, I don't think it played into the solution at all, as you noted.

newworld · Post by **newworld** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:01 pm

Thanks for replying.
I guess, the dummy column will need to be dropped before loading to the final table/final action.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:57 pm

My assumption is it wasn't needed at all. [shrug]