Hey Guys!
I'm relatively new to knime and I'm trying to make a loop to import XLS-files from one folder. The xls-files are all based on the same "mastertable" (wich is also imported, with dummie-data) but they don't necessarily have all the columns of the mastertable. Within columns with the same name, you can only find data of one typ (e.g. integer) or missing data.
My Problem are the data types of the columns. When imported, 2 columns get types assigned automatically (one integer, one string) but the others just have a '?' as data type.
The node "column auto type cast" doesn't seem to help, because it doesn't change anything (Node seems to work, but input = output).
In the node "column rename" I can only change them to 'string', but not to integer or double. Also, I can only change the columns one by one, isn't there a node to detect the data type of a column?
The only way so far I found would be changing all the columns to string with the column rename node and then use the "string to number" node once for the columns with integer and once for double. But this seems quite complicated for such an easy step to do and all 3 the nodes need to be adjusted, if a new column is added.
I attached my workflow, maybe there is something wrong with the whole flow.
Thanks a lot for helping!