Element Representative Creator Operation

In this section:

Computes a representative record for a specified group of records by a given criteria. For additional information, see Representative Creator.

Name

Type

Required

Description

Default Locale

String

No

Defines the locale for parsing non-numerical data (for example, abbreviated months in dates - e.g., Sep 18, 1999). This value is the same as the value of the corresponding locale in Java. For more detail see Java locales Default value: System locale.

Rules

List of Rule Cfg

No

Set of rules for record selection. The rule defines record grouping and the process of selecting record attributes (column values). Each record is processed by the first rule satisfying the when condition.



x
Detailed Description of Unification Extended

This step computes a set of representative records from source data utilizing a process where records are classified by a specified rule and grouped by an appropriate key.

The records are sorted by each group, and best records are selected for each group. The new representative record is collected from a specific data record or from aggregated values of group of records. New values can be also stored in the original records.


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