User and Developer Guide

User and Developer Guide

Column and Row Selections

Column and Row Selections

You can select column and row headers in to populate input and output fields with entire column ranges.
The following figure shows the correlation between selected columns in a worksheet and output fields in the
Use Service
window:
The figure shows an Excel sheet with ten rows of data. FullName is in column A, PhoneNumber is in column B, and CustomerNumber is in column C. The Use Service window shows the following configuration: FullName Sheet1!A:A, PhoneNumber Sheet1!B:B, and CustomerNumber Sheet1!C:C.
The highlighted blue area in the Excel worksheet indicates columns that you select. The numbers in the Excel worksheet indicate the order that you select the columns. The numbers in the
Use Service
window indicate the order in which the Data Quality for Excel plug-in populates the input fields.
If you click the
Autofill
button in the Input section of the
Use Service
window, the plug-in populates the input fields with the column ranges from your selection. The
Autofill
button is indicated by the red circle in the figure.
When you select a column or row header, Data Quality for Excel uses the full column range. For example, if you select the header for Column C and click
Autofill
, Data Quality for Excel writes
C:C
into the currently selected service field. However, when the Data Quality for Excel plug-in runs a service, the plug-in recalculates the range in service fields that use full columns or rows. The plug-in locates the last populated cell in the row or column and updates the field so that the range uses the last populated cell as an endpoint. For example, if the last populated cell is C28, then the plug-in updates the field to read
C1:C28
.