Performing Tasks After Running Filter Columns Node

After running the Filter Columns Node, you can perform the following tasks:

• View hints: To view hints, double-click the Filter Columns node. The Edit Column Filter Details Node dialog box displays hints, to indicate attributes that did not pass the data quality checks. For more information, click .

  • Summary information is displayed about data quality.

  • Values are indicated graphically in the Data Viewer.

  If you specified Attribute Importance:

  • Hints indicate attributes that do not have the minimum importance value.

  • The importance of each column is displayed.

• Exclude columns: Go to the Output column for the attribute and click . The icon in the Output column changes to . The selected columns are ignored or excluded, which means that the columns are not for subsequent nodes. It is not necessary to run the nodes again.

• Accept recommendations:

  • For several recommendations, select the attributes and click .

  • For all recommendations, type Ctrl+A and click .

• Apply recommended output settings: Attributes that have Hints are not passed on. Attributes that have no hints are not changed and they are passed on.

• Create a Table or View node: The output of this node is a data flow. To create a table containing the results, use a Create Table or View Node.