Insert Operator - Expert

Inserting an Operator in a mapping between different connected operators is a time consuming task considereing if you have mappings with complex logic and hundreds of columns.

Often a small change in requirement (like adding new columns or change in business logic) can result in deleting hundreds of connection from one operator to another for inserting a new operator in a mapping. Recreating connection again increases the development and testing effort, since all the connections have been created manually again.

Created an expert which can insert some selected operators (aggregator, set_operator, deduplicator, expression, joiner, splitter, sorter, and filter) anywhere in a mapping retaining all connections, if logically possible. Eventually less development,maintanence and testing effort.

Expert can be downloaded here. Expert does not come with any WARRANTY !!!!!

Expert is designed to insert an operator in a mapping, retaining all the existing connections.
This Expert is governed by the OWB laws of designing a mapping.

A quick demo how to use it.

Download the zip file and Import the expert and you should see it under Global Explorer/Public Expert/MAP_ACC/INSERT_OPERATOR


Add expert to a mapping. Right click on a mapping (in my case mapping name is "TEST" ) and select "Add/Remove Experts Here" option and select the "INSERT_OPERATOR" expert


***Time to test the expert ****

Mapping “TEST” populates a table with 120+ columns and has more than 20 key lookups and multiple joins, expressions, etc.Let’s insert a filter operator after Joiner "JNR_ALL" in the mapping "TEST" as shown below
Right click on the mapping and Select "Insert Operator"




A window will pop up.
Select "FILTER" as your Insert Operator.
You can select where you want to insert the operator "BEFORE" or "AFTER" the map operator.

Select "AFTER" as your position and Select "JNR_ALL" as map operator.
Check Box "Default outgoing connections from the new operator" will allow you to remap connections from the new operator to the existing default values.

Press "OK" to continue


After the expert has run, Open the mapping and a filter is inserted and all the connections are retained.


Now lets insert a sorter in the same mapping before the target table (PS_D_CRSE_CLASSMTG_STG).

Open the mapping after the expert has run and a new sorter is inserted and all the connections retained.

Note: Expert does not adds any Conditional logic (like filter or joiner condition) to any inserted operators.