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title: JavaScript Processor
slug: manufacturing-connect-edge-v3/javascript-processor
createdAt: 2025-01-06T18:04:46.803Z
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This processor function enables users to use JavaScript as a programming language for manipulating and managing data coming from input tags.

Define your script in the Code Editor. The editor is a user-friendly interface for writing and editing JavaScript, supporting syntax highlighting and real-time validation. Write the JavaScript code you want to execute. Learn more [here](https://www.w3schools.com/js/).

At the right you can access:

- **Playground**
  Test, write, and validate processors in real-time before deploying them.
- **Validate**
  Validate your code.

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**Note: **When creating an analytics flow with *JavaScript Processor *processor, refer the [Use the JavaScript Processor Function](docId\:wd4I-gTTn9vfbtJ66ZmiL) guide for more details.
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# JavaScript Overview

This processor uses JavaScript scripting

- **Simple Use case**: The output you receive from DeviceHub message or from Analytics, might not be helpful, and you want to change the name of a field within that message
- In general, if you want to add, remove or modify ANY field in the input, this scripting processor is very useful. For example:
  - Instead of "value" you want your data to show "furnace pressure"
  - Instead of having all fields of the message, you only want to have "success", "deviceId" and "value" and skip everything else
  - You want to add a custom field to the message, based on the "value" field, such as: if value = 2, "error": "overheating"
  - You only want to change the timestamp to human readable format instead of Unix timestamp, but keep otherwise keep the message as-it-is
- **Single Input:** Every message from the input, is stored as an array called "values"
  - Using "for i, message in values\{}" statement, allows to access this input and manipulate it
  - Here "i" represents what is the *definition* defined in the connection wire, more useful for multi-inputs, to identify and distinguish between each inputs, so for single input, "i" can be replaced with "\_"
  - "message" contains the entire message in the input, and you can perform your manipulations to this "message" parameter
  - **Note:** "i" and "message" can be any custom variable name
- **Multiple Input:** Suppose you have 3 different inputs attached to this scripting processor, with the connecting wires named A, B and C
  - "for i, message in values\{}" will now have 3 inputs
  - "i" represents from which connection wire is the input coming from
  - with if-else statements, every input can be manipulated in isolation, or a common manipulation can be applied to all inputs
  - You can choose to output "result" only for one input, or all of the inputs