You are developing a transformation and you need to change all the string data types to decimal. Instead of changing each field individually, you make global changes in Excel and copy them to the Developer tool.
You right-click within Ports, click
Select All
, and paste the metadata into Excel.
You change the first data type value from "string" to "decimal" and then use the fill handle to automatically change the remaining cells in the column.
To update the transformation with the changes, you copy the metadata from Excel, right-click within Ports, and click
Paste (Replace)
.
By using Excel, you avoid having to change each field individually.
The following image shows the process of moving a transformation to Excel, using Auto Fill to change certain values, and then copying the transformation back to the Developer tool: