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.

Option	Description
Workflow action name	The name of the workflow action. Note: This name has to be unique in a single workflow. A workflow action can be placed several times on the canvas, however it will be the same workflow action.
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.
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.

Option	Description
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 to Folder	Moves files to specified folder.
Create Folder	Creates folder that will contain files.
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.

Option	Description
Success on	Sets conditions of success.
Limit files	Sets number of files associated with a condition of success.

Option	Description
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.