Introduction
User defined Transfomers are a great way to configure a system transformer with your own presets and publish it everywhere. User defined transformers are saved at the account level and can be used across multiple jobs, saving your time during the schema configuration process.
Creating a User Defined Transformer
In order to create a user defined transformer, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Transformers page and click on + New Transformer.
- You'll be brought to the new transformer page where you can select a base transformer. A base transformer serves as the blueprint for the user defined transformer. Select the base transformer for your user defined transformer.
- Once you've selected a base transformer, you'll be prompted to give the transformer a name and description. Additionally, you can preset custom default configurations depending on the transformer. Fill out the details and click save.
Using a User Defined Transformer
Once you've created a user defined transformer, you'll see it appear in the transformer list in Transformers main page as well as the Schema configuration page. Above, we created a user defined transformer
called custom-float-transfomer, we can now see it both places.
In the transformers table under the User Defined Transformer tab.
In the Schema configuration page in the transformer select.
Now we can finsih the rest of our job configuration and the newly created user defined transformer will be used in the column that it's mapped to.