Configuring Gather Steps

A definition can have as many gather steps a required, these steps will have a default behaviour of executing in parrallel but can be configured to run consecutively.

This is an example of a gather step that is reading from a .jsonl file on the same system as the agent is running.

Property	Description
Step Name	User friendly display name
Place Id	Which agents can run this step
Depends Upon Steps	Which gather steps must have completed before this step starts
Connection	Select which preconfigured data source connection to gather data from
Source File	The target file (only applies to "Local" connections)
Output File	File to write gathered data to (this can be referenced from other steps)
Tranform Type	Handlebars and JSONata transforms can be applied to flatten the data

Columns

The last set of inputs are for defining the data structure of the incoming data