By the end of this chapter you will be able to:

• Collect data from Excel Spreadsheetsexcel spreadsheets

A file containing a mapping of Counties to Regions can be found in the input files, at:
…\inputData\AddressCheck\regionsByCounty\regionsByCounty.xlsx
You will use this data to find the Region for each of the customer addresses that you have already loaded. Notice that there is a header line in this file with the column names of the data.
Add a new File Collector file collector to read this file into the new model you created in exercise 1:

• Drag  - Add a new File Collector onto the modelling pane menu
• In the new File Collector file collector form that pops up, enter the Name: Regions by County
• Press 
• You will now see the new File Collector file collector on the modelling pane
• Save the model layout

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Set up File Collector and Stream

• Hover over your new File Collector, and press 
• In the file explorer, go to: …\inputData\AddressCheck\regionsByCounty
• Select the file regionsByCounty.xlsx and press Open
• In the Upload Managed File form, press Image RemovedUpload

You will see a Stream stream appear on your model – PhixFlow has automatically configured the File Collector file collector and the Stream stream to load the file into PhixFlow.

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Pause file data

To pause the data loaded from the file:

• Hover over the stream RegionsByCounty
• In the hover menu press 

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Run Analysis and view Stream data

• Hover over your new Streamstream, and press  - Run Analysis in the hover menu
• Wait for your task to complete
• View the data: hover over the Stream stream and in the tool bar hover menu press  - Show the list of Stream Views
• In the drop down list, select Default View