# General

Enter the following information in the transformation step fields.

| Option                             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Step name**                      | Specify the unique name of the Parquet Output step on the canvas. You can customize the name or leave it as the default.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Folder/File name**               | Specify the location and name of the file or folder. Click **Browse** to display the **Open** dialog box and navigate to the destination file or folder. For the supported file system types, see [Connecting to Virtual File Systems](/pdia-data-integration/10.2-data-integration/data-integration-perspective-in-the-pdi-client/virtual-file-system-browser.md).- When running on the Pentaho engine, a single Parquet file is created. |
| **Overwrite existing output file** | Select to overwrite an existing file that has the same file name and extension.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |


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