# About properties

**URL:** <https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/about-properties/138>\
**Category:** CloverDX Platform\
**Created:** [July 16, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/about-properties/138 "2007-07-16T00:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![oldforum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@oldforum](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/oldforum)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/about-properties/138/1 "2007-07-16T00:00:00Z")

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This is the first time I’m using clover.

The user case is like this:  
I Import data from a tab delimetered file and want to store this data in a db table.  
One of the rows should have a value which is the same for  
each data file.  
For example for file a.dat is 1 for b.dat is 2 etc.  
This value is not taken from the input file.

I thought to use properties for this (perhaps cloverFields=“…;TheProperty”)  
I don’t know if this is possible.  
Is there any way to achieve this?

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**Author:** ![oldforum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@oldforum](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/oldforum)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/about-properties/138/2 "2007-07-16T08:23:44Z")

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It can’t be used like that.

But you can use DBOutputTable where  
you specify full update statement, then Property can be used - like this:

update mytable (a,b,c,d…) values(?,?,?,?,‘${TheProperty}’)

And use cloverFields to specify which clover field’s value is going to replace which placeholder - “?”

David.