Question regarding "Using SnapLogic Meta Snaps to Update Tasks" Video

Hello bradwyatt, thank you for joining our Community! You are correct, we do not need to explicitly map $original.path to $path in the Mapper Snap for the Pipeline to function. In that case we would need to change the SnapLogic Update Snap from $path to $original.path. 

Here is the SnapLogic Update Snap from the original Pipeline in the recording:

And here is the Snap configuration we could use if we just relied on "Pass through" being enabled in the Mapper Snap: