Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread John Blythe
gotcha. thanks for the tips guys best, -- *John Blythe* Product Manager & Lead Developer 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com www.curvolabs.com 58 Adams Ave Evansville, IN 47713 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Alessandro Benedetti < abenede...@apache.org> wrote: > Copyfield won't work if

Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
Copyfield won't work if this is what you meant. The source content of the field ( prior any analysis) is extracted and then sent to the copy field where it is analysed. You need to simulate that approach in the process method of the update request processor. But i assume that that was what you

Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread John Blythe
makes sense. could i set up a simple regex filter in a placeholder field of sorts and then copy that field into my tdouble field? -- *John Blythe* Product Manager & Lead Developer 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com www.curvolabs.com 58 Adams Ave Evansville, IN 47713 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at

Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread Jack Krupansky
It might be nice to have a specialized update processor for this common case of wanting to specify two separate but related numeric fields using one string. IOW, parse out two numbers and then send them to two separate fields. Seems doable, either as a script or in Java. The script/processor could

Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
I agree with Upayavira, this is an information extraction task, you need to implement your logic to extract the proper numeric values from the textual field. Your update request processor could be as simple as you want in extracting the number and setting them in numeric fields. So this task is

Re: Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread Upayavira
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, at 03:19 PM, John Blythe wrote: > hey all, > > i'm tossing a lot of mud against the wall and am wanting to see what > sticks. part of that includes throwing item descriptions against some > fields i've set up as doubles. the imported data is a double and some of > the

Sending text into a number field

2016-03-11 Thread John Blythe
hey all, i'm tossing a lot of mud against the wall and am wanting to see what sticks. part of that includes throwing item descriptions against some fields i've set up as doubles. the imported data is a double and some of the descriptions will have the related data within it (product sizes, e.g.