Having trouble removing useless attributes for a College lab

ced57
ced57 New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
This is what i am trying to do:

 The output from GetPages contains many attributes that are unnecessary for our work. Use Select Attributes to discard every attribute except URL and Document.

When i try and do this i cannot select the ones i want to keep and the dataset i am using are wiki articles


Answers

  • lionelderkrikor
    lionelderkrikor New Altair Community Member
    edited November 2018
    Hi @ced57,

    "i cannot select the ones i want to keep" ==> what is exactly your problem ?
    If the attributes of your dataset don't appear in the Select Attributes operator's dialog box, 
    you can follow these steps :  

    I hope it helps,

    Regards,

    Lionel
  • Telcontar120
    Telcontar120 New Altair Community Member
    This is another metadata propagation problem.  It is annoying, but not insurmountable.  You can always type the names of the attributes you want directly as @lionelderkrikor shows.  You can also use another trick if there are only a couple of attributes you want.  Use the Set Role operator to give each of them a special role, then use Select Attributes and leave it blank, but use the "invert selection" operator.  This should get rid of everything except your special attributes.