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Configure the ReplaceText processor

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Configure the ReplaceText processor

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I need to make changes to this data flow. I'll just stop this data flow running first. Before we write out the data to our database table, we need to replace the na values with empty strings. And we'll do this with a separate processor. So I've gotten rid of the connection between getFile and putDatabase record. Let's add a new processor. And this processor is called replaceText. ReplaceText will allow you to replace the text within the content of your flow file with some other text of your choosing. Let's add this processor and make it part of our data flow. I'm going to connect the output of GetFile to ReplaceText. So on success, GetFile will send the flow file to ReplaceText, where we'll replace the NA values that exist in our numeric column. Double click on ReplaceText to bring up the dialog to configure this processor. First, scheduling. Now, you can have this run each time a flow file is available, but I'm only going to run replace text every 20 seconds. So we'll pause a bit…

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