# Setting output column with a constant

You can set a constant to an output column in the Expression Builder, without mapping from the input columns. As shown below, the company column of type String is set to a fixed value, Talend.

![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/Resources/images/190513444_constant.png)

The input data will be transformed to output data after being processed into the tMap component.

Input table:

| employee\_id | name |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | Elisa |
| 2 | Nicolas |
| 3 | Patrick |

Output table:

| employee\_id | name | company |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Elisa | Talend |
| 2 | Nicolas | Talend |
| 3 | Patrick | Talend |

The data type of the value in the Expression Builder should be consistent with the data type of the output column. Otherwise, it will throw a Java compilation error. For example, if a constant 1 is set for company column in the Expression Builder, it will throw a compilation error when the Job is executed: Type mismatch: cannot convert from int to String, because the data type of the company column is defined as type String, but an Integer/int value is set for this column.