The flat file setup page of the new job wizard is
shown below:
On top is a panel where you can select the file to open. The 'Browse...' button allows you to select a file from a file dialog, the 'Preview' button will show you the first 100 lines or so of the file, and the GZiped check box allows you to set whether the file is in GZip format.
Below you can select the delimiting character. Select some standard delimiters from the combo box, or select 'Custom' from the combo box and enter a delimiter in the text field. Also set a string delimiter. Tokens enclosed by the string delimiter characters are read in as one token.
On the last line you set what the beginning of the file looks like. If you
indicate that the first line does not have a title, the file name (not including the
directory) will be used as a title. If the 'Title in first line' check box is
selected, then the next check box will say 'Second line contains column headers' instead
of 'First line contains column headers' as shown in the image above. These column
headers will be used as the field names for the events, and if there are no column headers
in the file, the field names will be 'A', 'B', 'C', etc. You can also set the date
and time formats. These are defined on the javadoc
page for java.test.SimpleDateFormat.
Page maintained by Jonas Gifford. Last updated 01/14/04.