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

  • Collect data from a spreadsheet

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 You will now add a new file collector to read this file into the new model you created in exercise 1: Introduction to Modelling analysis model:

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  3. In the new file collector form that pops up New FileCollector settings on the right of your screen, enter the Name: Regions by County.
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  5. You will now see the new new Regions by County file collector in the model.Save
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Set up File Collector and table

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  2. In the file explorer, go to: …\inputData\AddressCheck\regionsByCounty
  3. Select the file regionsByCounty.xlsx and press Open.
  4. In the Upload Managed File form box, press Upload File.

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

Pause file data

To pause the data loaded from the file:

  1. Hover over the table RegionsByCountyyour new table Regions By County.
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Further information on pausing files can be found on 2 Reading data from files into PhixFlow.

Run Analysis and view table data

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  2. Wait for your task to complete.
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  4. The data will show like the image below:
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