Updating the gender column via Job

[BelCDS]

Hi, I'm uploading a Job with several columns, one of them is the "gender" column but since it's an "integer type" I'm not being able to get the update of this column done and it keeps showing as "None specified".

[Deb_Tripathy]

Hi,
I guess the values in the file/job for Gender column are strings and that's why it is not getting updated.

You may need to convert these to appropriate integers and the load the data.

It would be great if you can put your job details for a precise solution.

Thanks,

Deb

[ParthaSarathy · Accepted solution]

Hi @BelCDS ,

data type of @gender is "byte" (Integer 8 Bit) in Recipient schema.
Value of male is 1 and female is 2. (Value of None specified/unknown is 0)
In you are updating the gender using JOB import, then in your file change the gender format as 1 for male and 2 for female.
Select data type as integer (8 bit) for gender by clicking 'click here to change the file format' and follow the rest import JOB procedure. Gender field will get updated now.

Alternative way:
You can use a workflow to upload the file data in schema by using data loading activity.
Here, you no need to make the gender format as 1 for male and 2 for female in original file. you can have as 'male' and 'female' and need to remap this value as 1 and 2 in data loading activity.

Regards,

ParthaSarathy S

[BelCDS]

Thanks, changing the format in the file when uploading the job wasn't working but updating the data via Wkf did worked!