Select Fields
Select operation should be used only when you want to extract a few specific columns from the tabular data in the DataModel.
Note that when you use the Select operation on a DataModel, it will generate a new DataModel with only the selected columns in the data.
Let's take a basic example of a tabular data in a DataModel.
| Order Date | Country | Sales | Quantity | Shipping Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/22/2011 | Australia | 59.724 | 6 | 27.43 |
| 1/22/2011 | United States | 125.248 | 3 | 3.64 |
| 1/22/2011 | Australia | 6.318 | 1 | 1.77 |
| 1/24/2011 | Australia | 110.808 | 3 | 9.92 |
| 1/24/2011 | United States | 40.08 | 6 | 4.31 |
| 1/24/2011 | India | 59.25 | 5 | 4.27 |
| 1/24/2011 | United States | 5.94 | 3 | 0.95 |
| 1/26/2011 | India | 79.38 | 3 | 13.82 |
| 1/26/2011 | India | 342.51 | 7 | 13.22 |
In the above data, select operation is applied as shown below:
DataModel newModel = model.SelectColumns("Country","Sales");
The new data of the DataModel after applying select operation is shown below:
| Country | Sales |
|---|---|
| Australia | 59.724 |
| United States | 125.248 |
| Australia | 6.318 |
| Australia | 110.808 |
| United States | 40.08 |
| India | 59.25 |
| United States | 5.94 |
| India | 79.38 |
| India | 342.51 |