Talend Open Studio Cookbook

Chapter 6. Managing Context Variables

This chapter contains exercises that illustrate some of the methods for managing context variables within projects and jobs.

• Creating a context group
• Adding a context group to your job
• Adding contexts to a context group
• Using tContextLoad to load contexts
• Using implicit context load to load contexts
• Turning implicit context load on and off in a job
• Setting the context file location in the operating system

Introduction

In this chapter, we will perform fairly simple tasks for performing basic operations on context variables, but do not take this as a reflection of the unimportance of context variables.

The use of context variables is a fundamental requirement for creating production quality Talend applications. Appendix ...