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=== Metadata Injection

If you you need to create 'almost' the same pipeline a lot of times, consider using xref:pipeline/transforms/metainject.adoc[Metadata Injection] to create re-usable template pipelines.

* Avoid manual population of dialogs
* Whenever you need dynamic ETL
* Supports data streaming

As example use cases is Loading data from 50 different file formats into a database with one pipeline template. This helps you to automatically normalize and load property sets.
