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- Hover over the stream Customer All Details, and press - Add a new Stream
- Call this Stream: Customer Details with Region
- Copy all attributes into your new Stream:
- Hover over Customer All Details and in the hover menu press - Show Stream Attributes
- Select all attributes in the list:
- Select the top attribute
- Keep shift pressed down and select the bottom attribute in the list
- Drag the attributes on top of the stream Customer Details with Region
- Run your new Stream and look at the data in it to verify that you have copied data from the merge Stream
Remember to save your model layout
Here you have copied data from a merge Stream into a new Stream – but this method works for any type of input Stream. Copying data into a new Stream is a common starting point for a modelling step.
Create lookup into reference dataNow you will add a Lookup Pipe from Regions by County to enrich the data in Customer Details with Region, by finding the region for each customer address:Anchor _Toc442889059 _Toc442889059 - Hover over RegionsByCounty and press - Add a new Connector
- Move the pointer over the top of Customer Details with Region and select – this will attach the end of the pipe to the selected Stream
- In the Pipe Setup form that pops up:
- Enter the Name: region
- Type: Look-up
- Data To Read: leave as the default – Latest
- Press Press
- In the matching attributes form that pops up create a match:
- Drag the attribute County from the left hand box into the list of matching attributes
- Drag the attribute in_County from the right hand box into the list of matching attributes – on top of the entry for County you created above
This means that the lookup will match records in the reference data (RegionsByCounty) where County = in_County in the output data (Customer Details with Region)
- Press Press
- A pipe will appear linking RegionsByCounty to Customer Details with Region - note that the pipe is dashed; this indicates that this is a lookup pipe
- When adding Lookup Pipes remember that the arrow points in the direction that the data flows; here you are getting data from RegionsByCounty to add to Customer Details with Region
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