Get a file with FTP
Description
The Get a file with FTP action retrieves one or more files from an FTP server.
This workflow action does not "crawl" systems.
It will not, for example, access a remote directory and go to other directories to find files that match a wildcard.
This workflow retrieves files from one directory exclusively.
Options
General tab
Action name
The name of the workflow action.
Server
FTP server name/IP address
The name of the server or the IP address.
Server Port
Port number of the FTP server.
Username
The user name associated with FTP server account.
Password
The password associated the FTP server account.
Proxy host
Proxy server host name.
Proxy port
Proxy server port number.
Proxy username
Proxy server account user name.
Proxy password
Proxy server account password.
Advanced
Binary mode
Enable if files must be transferred in binary mode.
Timeout
The FTP server timeout in seconds.
Use Active FTP connection
Enable if you are connecting to the FTP server using Active mode; you must set your firewall to accept connections to the port that your FTP client will open. The default is Passive mode.
Control Encoding
Encoding matters when retrieving file names that contain special characters. For Western Europe and the USA, ISO-8859-1 usually suffices. Select encoding that is valid for your server.
Files tab
Remote
Remote directory
The remote directory on FTP server from which files are taken.
Wildcard (regular expression)
Regular expression when you want to select multiple files. For example: .txt$ : get all text files A.ENG:0-9.txt : files starting with A, ending with a number and .txt
Remove files after retrieval
Remove the files on the FTP server, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred.
Move files after retrieval
Move the files on the FTP server to the folder specified below, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred.
Move to Folder
Moves files to specified folder on the server.
Create Folder
Creates folder that will contain files.
Local
Target Directory
The directory where you want to place the retrieved files.
Include date in filename
Adds the system date to the filename (_20101231).
Include time in filename
Adds the system time to the filename (_235959).
Specify date time format
Enable to provide your own date/time format; the default is yyyyMMdd'_'HHmmss
Date time format
Select date time format.
Add date before extension
Adds date to the file name before the extension.
Don’t overwrite files
Enable to skip, rename, or fail if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory.
If file exists
Action to take if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory.
Add filenames to result
Enable to add the file name(s) read to the result of this workflow.
Advanced tab
Success on
Sets conditions of success. The available options are:
All works fine (default)
At least we got x files
Nr errors less than
Limit files
Sets number of files associated with a condition of success.
Socks Proxy
Host
Socks Proxy host name.
Port
Socks Proxy port number.
Username
User name associated with the Socks Proxy account.
Password
Password associated with the Socks Proxy account.
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