Generating Datasets from an activity

You can generate one or more datasets from an activity. Activities can use one more datasets to generate new datasets. They may also not use datasets at all.

  1. In the My Catalog or All Catalogs tab, select a catalog.
  2. In the Contents tab, click .
  3. Click New and select Generate datasets from an activity
    The Activity properties panel appears.

    Fill in the fields and click Next.

    The Activity inputs panel appears.

  4. In the Activity inputs, fill in the fields as follows:

    • Start-up date: already includes the default date and time. To edit the start-up date click .
    • Start-up agent: agent that started the activity (if any)
    • Trigger: dataset that started the trigger of the activity (if any)
    • Used datasets: one or datasets used by the activity

    Click Next.

    The Activity outputs panel appears.

  5. In the Activity outputs fill in the fields as follows:

    • End date: already includes the default date and time. To edit the end date click .
    • End agent: agent that ended the activity (if any)
    • Generated datasets: one or more datasets to be generated by the activity.

      Click Publish a new generated datasets for each future dataset and follow the instructions described in Publishing a Dataset.

    The generated datasets appear in the Generated datasets section.
  6. Click Create.