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Render Data

Activity

The Render Data activity takes an instance of a data schema and renders it as a text string. The schema processed is based on a specified Data Format shared configuration.

You may want to use this activity in a number of situations. For example, you may retrieve a result set from a database table. You may then want to format this result set as a formatted text string (with line breaks between each row in the result set), and then write that text string out to a file. You would use the Render Data activity to render the data schema as a formatted text string. Then you would use the Write File activity to write the string to a file.

Configuration

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field	Global Var?	Description
Name	No	The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.
Description	No	Short description of the activity.
Data Format	No	The Data Format shared configuration to use when rendering the text output. See Data Format for more information.

Input

See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information about mapping and transforming input data.

The input for the activity is the following.

Input Item	Datatype	Description
Rows	complex	The element containing the list of items to render.
root	complex	The elementcomplex containing data schema (specified by the Data Format field on the Configuration tab) to render as a text string. This is a repeating element so that you can render more than one output record.

Output

The output for the activity is the following.

Output Item	Datatype	Description
text	string	The output text string as a result of rendering the specified data schema. Line breaks separate records of the data schema.

Error Output

The Error Output tab lists the possible exceptions that can be thrown by this activity. See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Error Codes for more information about error codes and corrective action to take.

Exception	Thrown When...
BadDataFormatException	The output format is not valid.

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