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# Fields

Use these fields to specify values for the fields.

| Field                                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **#**                                | The order of the mapping operation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Alias**                            | The name you want to assign to the HBase table key. This value is required for the table key column, but optional for non-key columns.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Key**                              | Indicates whether the field is the table's key. The values are **Y** and **N**.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Column family**                    | The column family in the HBase source table that the field belongs to. Non-key columns must specify a column family and column name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Column name**                      | The name of the column in the HBase table.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Type**                             | <p>Data type of the column. When the key value is set to <strong>Y</strong>, the following key column values display in the drop-down list:<strong>Key</strong> column types are:</p><ul><li>String</li><li>Integer</li><li>UnsignedInteger</li><li>Long</li><li>UnsignedLong</li><li>Date</li><li>UnsignedDate</li><li>Binary</li></ul><p>When the key value is set to <strong>N</strong>, the following key column values display in the drop-down list:</p><p><strong>Non-key</strong> columns types are:</p><ul><li>String</li><li>Integer</li><li>Long</li><li>Float</li><li>Double</li><li>Boolean</li><li>Date</li><li>BigNumber</li><li>Serializable</li><li>Binary</li></ul> |
| **Indexed values**                   | Enter comma-separated data in this field to define values for string columns.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Save mapping** (button)            | Saves the mapping. If there is any missing information in the mapping definition, you will be prompted to correct the mapping definition before the mapping is saved.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| **Delete mapping** (button)          | Deletes the current named mapping in the current named table from the mapping table. Note that this does not delete the actual HBase table.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Create a tuple template** (button) | Select to create a mapping template to extract tuples from HBase.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |


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