I need to create a .txt file every time and SSIS job runs and in that file I need to put the name of the files that I am transmitting. I have a foreach container but I am not sure on how to create the file and then write to it as each file is being moved. Can someone please steer me in the right direction? Thanks in Advance.
You can follow below steps:
Create a dummy empty text file
Copy the dummy file to new name dummyfile_10252016 (using File System Task - need to handle it through variable to make the name dynamic)
Create variable to keep the dummyFilePath
Process your required files in for each loop and store the filename in a variable
Once your file is processed, write the name to dummyfile_10252016
Script task:
string filename = Dts.Variables["User::filename"].Value.ToString();
string path = Dts.Variables["User::dummyFilePath"].Value.ToString();;
System.IO.File.AppendAllText(path, filename );
How can I move files from one folder to another folder in SSIS using File System Task?
Example:
Move
D:\Target_folder files into D:\Target_folder\Old
here all the files in Target_folder like .xls,.txt will move into Old.
You need to create a number of variables with datatype of string
name : value
dstDir : D:\Target_folder\Old
srcDir : D:\Target_folder
FileName :
srcPath : [this should be an expression concating srcDir and FileName]
dstPath :[this should be an expression concating dstDir and FileName]
You then add a for each loop container then double click on it to open up the editor and choose collections.
Make sure the enumerator is a foreach File Enumurator. Click on the Expressions ellipsis underneath this and set the Directory property to srcPath.
Go to Variable Mappings add the User::FileName variable to map to the 0 index.
Add a File System Task to the for each loop container.
Set the operation to Move file
set both IsDestinationPathVariable and IsSourcePathVariable to true and set the values for DestinationVariable to dstPath and the SourceVariable to srcPath.
This should enumerate for each file in the directory source directory and move it to your destination directory.
Can anyone help:
Required: SSIS Package to loop through a folder (containing 100 files) and check whether required files (which are 5/6) are present in that folder.
Does anyone already has code for this - where we are checking for multiple files existence in the destination folder
Regards
Add a Foreach loop container to your Control Flow
Double click it and select Collection. On Enumerator, select Foreach
File Enumerator
Select your folder and the type of file
Select the return type when a file is found. The options are the
whole filename including extension and path, the name and extension
or simply the name of the file found
Select the checkbox if you want the subfolders
Click on the variables option on the left and then new variable or
select an existing variable.
At this point you have each file name on the folder. To prove it, add a script component, double click it, and your variable on the read Only Variable and click on Edit Script. Make your Main like this:
public void Main()
{
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(Dts.Variables["FileName"].Value.ToString());
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
}
now, the comparison you can do several ways. I dont know where do you have the "required files" list, but assuming it is on a database, you can add a data flow task and inside of it send the filename to the DB to do the comparisson.
I am new to SSIS i'm working on a critical deadline it would be great if someone could help me on this.
I have a share folder in server location //share/source/files where on daily basis one file will get loaded and on a monthly basis one more file gets loaded both the files are of same extension .csv
Can anyone help me in moving the files Say A.csv and B.csv to corresponding tables and more important is file name on day1 will be A 2011-09-10.csv and on day2 in source the file will be A 2011-09-11.csv..This files has to be moved to table A and file B.csv has to be moved the corresponding destination table table b ,once after moving the files this file has to be moved to archive folder and also we need to send users that tabl-A got loaded with 1000 rows and succesfull similarly table -b load was sucesfull along with date and time .
Note:Source Files will be automatically updated in the folder everyday at 5am in the morning.
First, create a variable that will hold the file path name.
Secondly, create a script task that checks to see if the file is available.
The script task will be as follows:
public void Main()
{
string FileName = String.Format("{0}.csv", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
if (System.IO.File.Exists("\\Shared\\Path\\" + FileName))
{
Dts.Variables["FileName"].Value = FileName;
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
}
else
{
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Failure;
}
}
After the script task, create a Data Flow Task.
Create a connection in the Connection Manager at the bottom of the page which will point to the flat file. In the Flat File Connection Manager Editor popup, set the File name to a file you'd like to upload (this will be updated dynamically, so its actual value isn't relevant). In the properties of the new Connection, open the Expressions popup. Select ConnectionString property, and set the expression to point to the path and the FileName variable : "\\Shared\\Path\\" + #[User::FileName].
Create a Flat File Source, and use the connection we just created as the Connection for the flat file.
Create a destination data flow item, and point it to the database you'd like to insert data into.
From here, create a SQL Server job that runs at the time you'd like it to run. This job should execute the package you have just created.
I have an .HTML file that has many photos attached to it for displaying a photo gallery. I'm replacing old photos with new ones, and I'm thinking there must be a more intelligent way than simply copying and pasting repetitive file names.
I would love to be able to replace and increment a file name on each replace, starting at a base file name of my choosing. For example...
...images/69thStreet010.jpg
...images/69thStreet011.jpg
...images/69thStreet012.jpg
Basically performing a CTRL+F and REPLACE '69thStreet010.jpg' with...
...images/xyz001.jpg
...images/xyz002.jpg
...images/xyz003.jpg
And so on until I want it to stop. Anyone here have any suggestions? Thanks a lot!
UPDATE: I should also add, I'm using Notepad++ to edit my files.
Look into the Column Editor feature within Notepad++. You can do a block select on the area you want to increment and then give it a starting/ending range and you're all set.
I was in a similar situation recently. I did a little bit of regular expression search/replace to get my filenames into my "default" format with some padded "000" where I wanted my incrementing to start. After that, I used Shift+ALT to block select the 000s and used the editor to do the rest of the work.
OK, I came up with a Notepad++ solution.
It does require you to install the Notepad++ plugin PythonScript.
It is a TextPad-like incremental replace.
i.e.
Search and replace integer values within a string
replacing incrementally starting with 1 (0 is the default starting value):
In your case it would be
Search: ...images/69thStreet[0-9]+.jpg
Replace: ...images/xyz00\i(1).jpg
Install the PythonScript plugin.
Save the code below as a PythonScript and associate a shortcut (i.e. Ctrl+i) to it:
Then open your html file in Notepad++ and run the script below on your html file.
When prompted by the search replace dialogue, enter the following 2 lines:
...images/69thStreet[0-9]+.jpg
...images/xyz00\i(1).jpg
Now, all instances of
...images/69thStreet010.jpg
...images/69thStreet011.jpg
...images/69thStreet012.jpg
will become
...images/xyz001.jpg
...images/xyz002.jpg
...images/xyz003.jpg
Here is the PythonScript code
from Npp import *
import re, string
# First we'll start an undo action, then Ctrl-Z will undo the actions of the whole script
editor.beginUndoAction()
expression = notepad.prompt("Enter the search string on the first line, followed by Ctrl+Enter, \n" +
"followed by the replace string on second line",
"Incremental Search/Replace" ,
"")
expressionList = re.split(r"[\n\r]+", expression)
if len(expressionList) == 2:
foundCount = [0]
def incrementalReplace(parmReplaceStr,parmFoundCount):
varPatternI = r'\\i\((?P<starting>[0-9]+)\)'
varPatternIi = r'\\i'
varPatternISearch = re.search(varPatternI , parmReplaceStr)
if varPatternISearch != None:
varFoundCount = int(varPatternISearch.group('starting')) + parmFoundCount[0]
varReplaceString = re.sub(varPatternI ,str(varFoundCount ),parmReplaceStr)
elif re.search(varPatternIi, parmReplaceStr) != None:
varReplaceString = re.sub(varPatternIi,str(parmFoundCount[0]),parmReplaceStr)
parmFoundCount[0] = parmFoundCount[0] + 1
return varReplaceString
# Do a Python regular expression replace
editor.searchAnchor()
while editor.searchNext(0x00200000,expressionList[0]) != -1:
editor.replaceSel(incrementalReplace(expressionList[1],foundCount))
editor.lineDown()
editor.searchAnchor()
# End the undo action, so Ctrl-Z will undo the above two actions
editor.endUndoAction()
If your S&R supports Regex, use this.
Search term:
images/69thStreet([0-9]+).jpg
Replace term:
images/xyz$1.jpg
I just use Excel & Notepad++
Create a column of incrementing numbers in Excel. Then in the next (or previous) column, put in the line you wish to merge w/ the incrementing numbers. For instance:
file00 | 1 | .jpg
file00 | 2 | .jpg
Etc.
Then copy/paste the thing into Notepad++ (or use Excel's CONCATENATE function if the job is simple) and do a replacement.
It's time for you to learn scripting languages. Python/Ruby/Perl can do this in a few lines by using simple regular expressions and a directory listing.
notepad++ allows you to make multi line editing. But the main problem here is to get as quick as possible all the file names from the directory where they are.
In the past I had similar challenge that I solved this way.
This works almost on all win vers.
To make a list of all files in a directory create a bat file into the dir itself.
copy and paste there the following batch code
dir /b > filelist.txt
Save the file with name
makefilelist.bat
Not important the name you give it: the important thing is the file extension .bat
Double click on the bat file just saved: the batch script executes a clean dir command inside the directory in witch it is executed redirecting the output to the file filelist.txt
In less than one sec you have the output saved into the filelist.txt witch will be similar to the following:
filelist.txt
Image File Name 01.gif
Image File Name 02.gif
Image File Name 03.gif
Image File Name 04.gif
Image File Name 05.gif
Image File Name 06.gif
Image File Name 07.gif
Image File Name 08.gif
Image File Name 09.gif
Image File Name 10.gif
Image File Name 11.gif
Image File Name 12.gif
Image File Name 13.gif
Image File Name 14.gif
Image File Name 15.gif
Image File Name 16.gif
Image File Name 17.jpg
Image File Name 18.jpg
Image File Name 19.jpg
Image File Name 20.jpg
Image File Name 21.jpg
Image File Name 22.jpg
Image File Name 23.jpg
Image File Name 24.jpg
Image File Name 25.jpg
Image File Name 26.jpg
Image File Name 27.jpg
Image File Name 28.jpg
Image File Name 29.jpg
Image File Name 30.jpg
Image File Name 31.jpg
Image File Name 32.jpg
Image File Name 33.PNG
Image File Name 34.PNG
Image File Name 35.PNG
Image File Name 36.PNG
Image File Name 37.PNG
Image File Name 38.PNG
Image File Name 39.PNG
Image File Name 40.PNG
Image File Name 41.PNG
Image File Name 42.PNG
Image File Name 43.PNG
Image File Name 44.PNG
Image File Name 45.PNG
Image File Name 46.PNG
Image File Name 47.PNG
Image File Name 48.PNG
makelist.bat
Of course the names logged into the file list may vary... The script logs every file, no matters if it is in sequence or not or if its name is a random name or contains date time (time stamp) etc.: it logs everything is into the same dir in witch is executed...
Now you can open filelist.txt with notepad++: first delete the lines of the list that report the unwanted files:
makelist.bat
filelist.txt
This operation is necessary cause the script lists also itself and the filelist.txt.
Then with multi line editing tool add the tag around all lines at once, or everything else needed to built the photo gallery, even a javascript array, etc... in the end copy and paste the finished job to your image gallery file under coding.
Done. Easy as drinking a glass of water: it is more difficult to explain than to do! Granted. ;-)
Improvements:
It is possible to get a list of just the jpg files by modifying the batch command like the following:
dir *.jpg /b > filelist.txt
Image File Name 17.jpg
Image File Name 18.jpg
Image File Name 19.jpg
Image File Name 20.jpg
Image File Name 21.jpg
Image File Name 22.jpg
Image File Name 23.jpg
Image File Name 24.jpg
Image File Name 25.jpg
Image File Name 26.jpg
Image File Name 27.jpg
Image File Name 28.jpg
Image File Name 29.jpg
Image File Name 30.jpg
Image File Name 31.jpg
Image File Name 32.jpg
The same with other file extensions.
There is. Create your list of photos using a python script that looks at whatever directory you want, and renames or just lists all the file names. Then go from that to a python script that generates the HTML you need (should be very easy at this point). Then copy & paste that.
Python is very easy to use, you will be able to download it in 5 minutes & find a tutorial for reading / changing file names in another 10 minutes.