Error Handling tab

Microsoft Excel Input step Error Handling tab

The Error Handling tab allows you to configure the following properties:

Option	Description
Strict types?	Select to have PDI report data type errors while reading.
Ignore errors?	Select if you want to ignore errors during parsing. These lines can be dumped to a separate file by specifying a path in Warnings file directory, Error files directory, and Failing line numbers files directory. Clear this option to have lines with errors appear as NULL values in the output of this step.
Skip error lines?	Select to have PDI skip lines that contain errors.
Warnings file directory	Specify the location of the directory where warnings are placed if they are generated. The name of the resulting file is <warning dir>/filename.<date_time>.<warning extension>.
Error files directory	Specify the location of the directory where errors are placed if they occur. The name of the resulting file is <errorfile_dir>/filename.<date_time>.<errorfile_extension>.
Failing line numbers files directory	Specify the location of the directory where parsing errors on a line are placed if they occur. The name of the resulting file is <errorline dir>/filename.<date_time>.<errorline extension>.