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acesario
Contributor II
6 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
    6 years ago

    Hi @acesario

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

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acesario
Contributor II
6 years ago

@cjhoward18 I’m seeing this again where a pipeline executes a file writer step when a) It is not in the flow. and b) Write empty file is false.

I feel like this should not be executing and writing an excel file after a router step, and where the file setting does not include ‘write empty file’.

The behavior is contrary to the setting and we cannot have an empty excel file written in this case. Would Snaplogic support be willing to look at this as a bug?

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cjhoward18
Employee
6 years ago

Hi @acesario

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