I am using the Text File writer, and wish to fanout output to files in different folders (where the file name in each folder is cosistent).
I have been able to do the opersite (i.e. fanout to uniquley named files in a single folder) using the Advanced>Fanout Datset settings.
Short of running from the command line, with a specified output folder parameter, is there any way I can dynamicaly direct Text File outputs to different folders?
Probably this setting does the trick for what you need.
Takashi
This way you can use an output/fanout attributes you created to control it.
Thanks for your responses.
Takashi - your solution worked a treat! This will save me a cmd bat file to organise my files.
Cheers. Rob.
I wish to output text files (it's a kind of Metadata) to various folders. My input has a folder named Forest and a subfolder named Native and inside Native I have my Native_Bush.TXT & Native_Trees.TXT( I have many other vegetation folders & subfolders & corresponding .TXT i.e Alpine/Plants/Alpine.TXT). I have many output folders to which i want to output my same Native_Bush & Native_Trees.TXT i.e Forest_1/ Native, Forest_2 /Native, Forest_3_Naive.
I have tried using the path C:/Forest/Native/*.TXT as a input & the Parameter Fetcher & String replacer transformers (if I remember correctly)& using Fanout with the output C:/Forest_*/Native/*.TXT. It doesn't work
Do you know how I could get it to work?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Dianne
If you create the required file paths without drive name for each text line feature as their attribute (e.g. "_file_path"), this Fanout Dataset setting might work.
The "_file_path" should store file path without drive name, e.g.
\\Forest_1\\Native\\Native_Bush
\\Forest_1\\Native\\Native_Trees
\\Forest_2\\Native\\Native_Bush
\\Forest_2\\Native\\Native_Trees
and so on.
Takashi
Probably this setting does the trick for what you need.
Takashi
Probably this setting does the trick for what you need.
Takashi
The current FME Workbench has modern and smarter interface - the Fanout Expression.
If you create the required file paths without drive name for each text line feature as their attribute (e.g. "_file_path"), this Fanout Dataset setting might work.
The "_file_path" should store file path without drive name, e.g.
\\Forest_1\\Native\\Native_Bush
\\Forest_1\\Native\\Native_Trees
\\Forest_2\\Native\\Native_Bush
\\Forest_2\\Native\\Native_Trees
and so on.
Takashi
Could you show how it would work for FME 2018.0?
I am trying to insert disclaimers/metadata into zipped folders (kml.zip, shp.zip, dwg.zip etc) but I am unable to figure out the wildcard settings of the FileCopy Writer to do so.
Thanks,
Doug
Could you show how it would work for FME 2018.0?
I am trying to insert disclaimers/metadata into zipped folders (kml.zip, shp.zip, dwg.zip etc) but I am unable to figure out the wildcard settings of the FileCopy Writer to do so.
Thanks,
Doug