Get filename from Watched folder start point

[FabioSpiga]

I have a watched folder as a start point and I can use the

symbols %F and %E in order to save the output documents in the Result folder.

This is easy.

What I cannot do, is getting in a string variable the same filename in order to use it within the Process:

Is it possible?

I would like to exploit this filename to discriminate the activities that the file have to make...

Thanks you as usual!

[Jasmin_Charbonn · Accepted solution]

You can add a setValue and use the getDocAttribute method to get some attributes about the document variable that contains the file that was dropped.

For example:

/process_data/@tmpString =  getDocAttribute(/process_data/@docXML, "basename")

Jasmin

[FabioSpiga]

thank you Jasmin, your answer is correct and now it works!

only I don't understand why my way didn't work...

Instead of a setValue, I used directly a INSERT SQL activity with getDocAttribute(/process_data/@docXML, "basename") as parameter: as is, it didn't work!

As you suggest, if I put a setValue between the Watched folder startpoint and the INSERT SQL activity (now with the populated string as parameter), it works...

Bah!

Thank you again!

Fabio

[Jasmin_Charbonn]

It could be a bug with the SQL operation.

I think your solution should have worked.

Jasmin