Directory name generalization

It completely depends on the detail but you could either use the Advanced Browser and define your input data path like:

 

 

"C:\\Folder\\Folder\\**\\*.SHP

 

 

Which would read any Shape files found in any folder below c:\\folder\\folder. If you want to be more controlled and be able to also set the top level folder as your ppst suggests you might need to build your path first. Using just one workspace consider creating a couple of published parameters and then use a combination of ParameterFetcher and StringConcatenator to build the path you want to read from and then pass that path into a Transformer like the FeatureReader. You could of course use two workspaces where the first builds the path to read the data from and sends those paths to a Workspace runner and passes the required paths into the Reader Parameters of the workspace that does the work.

 

 

A few options perhaps.

You can be a bit more specific than the default advanced browser

 

 

for your case something like 

 

Current\\Transport\\**\\Standard\\

 

 

will find every subdirectory of Transport that itself contains a directory Standard, and is recursive so will find

 

 

Current\\Transport\\1\\Standard\\

 

as well as 

 

Current\\Transport\\1\\Standard\\2\\Standard

 

 

or without recursion you can use:

 

 

Current\\Transport\\Roads*\\Standard\\

 

 

which will find every directory in Transport that starts with Roads and contains a subdirectory Standard.

 

 

depending on which reader you're using you can also do pattern matching on the file name

 

*.shp

 

road*.csv

 

 

etc.