# Configuring the input flow

Available in...

* Big Data
* Big Data Platform
* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Data Fabric
* Data Management Platform
* Data Services Platform
* MDM Platform
* Real-Time Big Data Platform

## Procedure

1. Double-click tFileInputDelimited to open its Component view.

   ![Basic settings view of the component.](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/Resources/images/auto_parallelization3.png)
2. In the File name/Stream field, browse to, or enter the path to the file storing the customer records to be read.
3. Click the ![Three dots](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/Resources/images/dots_button.svg) button to open the schema editor where you need to create the schema to reflect the structure of the customer data.

   ![Schema editor.](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/Resources/images/use_case-parallelization13.png)
4. Click the ![Add](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/Resources/images/add.svg) button five times to add five rows and rename them as follows: FirstName, LastName, City, Address and ZipCode.

   In this scenario, we leave the data types with their default value String. In the real-world practice, you can change them depending on the data types of your data to be processed.
5. Click OK to validate these changes and accept the propagation prompted by the pop-up dialog box.
6. If needs be, complete the other fields of the Component view with values corresponding to your data to be processed. In this scenario, we leave them as is.