# Data Grid and Generate Rows

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**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/data-grid-and-generate-rows/2269 "2020-06-26T09:14:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrunalini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mrunalini](https://community.automationedge.com/u/mrunalini)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/data-grid-and-generate-rows/2269/1 "2020-06-26T09:14:32Z")

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What is the difference between Data grid and Generate Rows?

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**Author:** ![Ankita1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Ankita1](https://community.automationedge.com/u/Ankita1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/data-grid-and-generate-rows/2269/2 "2020-06-26T09:15:21Z")

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The Data Grid step is used to create a tabular data grid. This is usually done for testing, reference or demo purposes.  
Generate rows step is a data generating step that generates a single row or a specified number of rows. By default, the rows are empty; however you may define a number of static fields.  
Data grid does not accept run time parameter, whereas in generate rows we can give Field value as run time parameter.