Templator v1.0

This tool provides a template-replacement-service. You provide a template with variables, a signle line with the names of the variables and an number of lines (say, N) with replacements (CSV-format). The result will be N templates, with all the variables replaced by row 1..N from the replacements. Those templates will be present in a single download.

What do you use it for? Well… currently I use it as follows: create an ETL-workflow in BODS. Export the workflow to XML. Replace the items that are variable with variable-names. Save this as a template. Now, when a new workflow is necessary, it is just a matter of copying the variables, their replacements and the template into the Templator. Then, run it and use the download as an import (after removing superfluous begin and end-tags).

It works best if you have highly similar flows based on highly similar inputs that differ only by up to ten variables. Beyond that, it tends to become more cumbersome to gather the replacement values than to copy and paste the original workflow. Your mileage may vary, however.

Start the Templator or the Dutch language version.

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