Element Details: Validate+String
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Available in: Logi Info Source code name: ValidateString

Use this element to check the characteristics of text or string columns. To check multiple columns using the same rules, just seperate each column name with a comma.

Any records of data that contain invalid data are removed. In order to access the removed data, add a value to the ExceptionDataID attribute.

Element Group:Validation Elements



ATTRIBUTES

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NamePossible ValuesDescription
AllowNulls
True
False
Determine whether null values are allowed in the column. True = (Default) Nulls are allowed. False = Nulls are not allowed.
ColumnNames
UserDefined
(Required) A list of column names, separated by commas. For example: OrderID, CustomerID, EmployeeID, OrderDate
DefaultColumnValue
UserDefined
The default value to use if the column does not contain value.
ExceptionDataID
UserDefined
Defines an ETL ID value that can be used to address the exception data that was removed by the filter. The value of this attribute may be referenced by a DataLayer.ETL, LoadDbTable, SaveData, or any other element that supports the EtlElementID attribute.
ID
UserDefined
(Required) The ID attribute is a pervasive attribute that uniquely identifies an element within a definition file. The ID needs to be a unique value within the definition.
MaxLength
UserDefined
The maximum number of characters allowed.
MinLength
UserDefined
The minimum number of characters allowed.
ValidCharacters
UserDefined
A case sensitive string of valid characters. Defaults to all characters. For example, to limit to lower case a-f and 0-9 use: abcdef0123456789 The character order of the string is not important.



PARENT ELEMENTS

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DataLayer.Cached
DataLayer.CSV
DataLayer.Directory
DataLayer.ETL
DataLayer.Excel
DataLayer.Fixed Format File
DataLayer.Google App
DataLayer.Google Spreadsheet
DataLayer.JSON
DataLayer.LDAP
DataLayer.Linked
DataLayer.Plugin
DataLayer.REST
DataLayer.SimpleDB
DataLayer.SP
DataLayer.SQL
DataLayer.Static
DataLayer.Twitter
DataLayer.Web Feed
DataLayer.Web Scraper
DataLayer.Web Service
DataLayer.XML


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