Time for action – assigning tasks by filtering priorities with the Filter rows step

Following with the JIRA subject, let's do a more realistic distribution of tasks among programmers. Let's assign the serious task to our most experienced programmer, and the remaining tasks to others.

  1. Create a new transformation.
  2. Read the JIRA file and filter the unassigned tasks, just as you did in the previous tutorial.
  3. Add a Filter rows step and two Excel Output steps to the canvas, and link them to the other steps as follows:
    Time for actionstreamssplitting, based on condition – assigning tasks by filtering priorities with the Filter rows step
  4. Configure one of the Excel Output steps to send the fields, Priority and Summary, to an Excel file named b_bouchard.xls (the name of the senior ...

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