Choose a file system or folder and select Add -> DataSource from the popup menu. The DataSource Wizard appears as shown in Figure 2.3, “New DataSource”. Select the Text DataSource from the DataSource types and click Next.

Figure 2.3. New DataSource

The Define Text DataSource screen appears as shown in Figure 2.4, “Define Text DataSource - Page One”. On this page, enter Employee in the Name field. Click the browse button to the right of the File URL text box and select the path to the Employee.txt file from the Open File Dialog window. Alternatively, if Employee.txt is in the repository, enter repository: followed by the path to the file. In all the samples (see Appendix B, Samples), the repository path is used and in this case it is repository:/DataDesignerUserManual/data/Employee.txt. Tick the "First line is header" check box. click Next.

Figure 2.4. Define Text DataSource - Page One

The screen shown in Figure 2.5, “Define Text DataSource - Page Two” is displayed. From this screen, click Infer Schema. You should see the field types from the employee text file appear. Click Finish. The Employee.ds file appears in the repository under the chosen file system.

Figure 2.5. Define Text DataSource - Page Two

To load the data of the Employee data source, click the Load Data icon in the Data window. To print the data, click the Print Data icon.

Only the first five hundred records are processed in this table. The record count will automatically stop at this limit. If you have a larger number of records, you can enable the Count All Records option in the data window before the Load Data icon. Now the total number of records present in the data source is displayed in the toolbar of the Data Window. In this example there are only ten records, so Count All Records will not affect the result.

Finally, click the close icon on the right of the toolbar to close the view.