Create your first pipeline
SnapLogic Designer provides the canvas for creating pipelines. Most pipelines connect to one or more external endpoint. To avoid an external connection, this tutorial walks you through the steps to create a pipeline that splits the content of one CSV file into two files. It introduces how to use Snaps to filter and route data—common tasks that you can apply to other use cases.
The SnapLogic environment provides a limited amount of file storage to hold libraries to be used by pipelines or data files to test pipelines during development. For this example, we provide a directory.csv file to upload to SnapLogic file storage and use for your pipeline. The file contains the following sample data:
![Sample data](../img/concepts/sample-csv.png)
We're going to create a pipeline that filters out the Operations department and splits the remaining employees into separate files based on their location. The main steps include: