Get Children

Block Group: Data Services
Block Icon: Get Children block icon

The Get Children Block returns a table that lists the children of a data node. The output table of the Get Children block is only one level deep. Therefore, when a node that has children is listed, the node is represented with a name, not a table. You can use multiple Get Children blocks to retrieve deeper lists.

Input/Output Property

The following property of the Get Children block can take input and give output.


Output Properties

The following properties of the Get Children block can give output but cannot take input.

output returns a table that lists the children of the specified node. The table includes the following fields:

error returns the error message, if any.


Example

The following image demonstrates how to create a Get Children block by dragging a node to the dataflow window.

Get Children dataflow model