Adding a context group to your job
A job will not automatically use a context group. This exercise shows how to add a context group to a job.
Getting ready
Open the jo_cook_ch06_0010_addContextGroup job.
How to do it...
The steps for adding a context group to your job are as follows:
Open the context panel, and click on the context icon shown as follows:
You will then be presented with the list of available context groups.
Select cookbookDB, and then Ok.
You will now see that the
cookbookDBcontext variables have been added as read-only variables into the job.
How it works…
The context dialogue within a job allows single (in job) contexts, as well as context groups, to be added to a job.
There’s more…
The preceding method shows how to add all context variables into a job. There is also an option to add only a subset of the variables within the group, if you drill down into the context group when selecting, demonstrated as follows:
Tip
Another method of adding the context to the job from the metadata is...
