Escape characters in metadata properties

CloverDX Platform
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Hi.
I’m trying to make dynamic metadata, therefore I need to pass recordDelimiter param (which is an escape character) to XML Writer task (screen).

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1731/editmetadatawe9.th.png

In results, I’m getting HTML encoded value & #10; instead of \n character.

How can I pass it without conversion?

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Hi,
if you want to use the default value of a data field to pass the record delimiter, then you need to set it to “\\\\n” (without the quotes) and set the field to be non-nullable. However the need for 4 backslashes is currently a bug, we will resolve it in the next release (only 2 backslashes should be needed).

Other mechanism are graph parameters, which can be used throughout the graph via ${parameter_name}. So you could create a parameter for the record delimiter (the parameter can even be used in the metadata editor). See the wiki for more info about parameters.

Hope this helps,
Jaro

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Nah, it’s not a bug, it’s a future :smiley: Works fine.

Thanks.