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acesario
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5 years ago
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Why do some snaps execute, when they are not in the current path?

I have a pipleine which uses routers successfully, but notice that there are a few snaps which execute downstream from a router which does not run. Even if I disconnect the snaps, I see a GATE snap...
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    cjhoward18
    5 years ago

    Hi @acesario

    Do you have the ‘Ignore empty stream’ property set in your Excel Formatter like this:

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cjhoward18
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5 years ago
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Hi @acesario,

The Gate Snap is designed to always have a single output document produced regardless of the number of input documents received.