for using the latest version of our templates, I want to copy the templates from our server to the user's local machine. but I want the templates will be copied to the local machine when the PowerPoint load and runs. I created a batch file to copy templates from server to local machine and I am looking for a way to run automatically this batch file after each time PowerPoint running.
I convert batch file to exe file that first copy templates to a local machine then run PowerPoint.exe.
with that method, my problem has been solved and it works fine.
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I'm using this link as a reference for reading a file from FTP folder. But this tutorial says that the files in the FTP folder should be loaded in a local folder and only then it can be used for processing using other tasks in SSIS.
My question is, Is it possible to read a file directly from the FTP folder without storing them in the local folder and do the ETL operations in SISS?
Any advice would be helpful, Thank you.
Not with standard SSIS components. Standard SSIS allows you to download a file from FTP server to a local folder, and use local CSV-like file as a data source. Standard Flat File Source or XML Source allows only local and mapped network folders as sources for the source File.
If you really want to combine FTP download and Data source in single data source, you can write your own Script Source Component with C# or VB.NET. It will require more efforts than using standard two components.
In the BW Designer, File Poller can look for file in the local server where the Designer is installed.
But If I want the File Poller to look at another server instead of the local server, I don't see any option to do that.
Is there any other way so that I can use File Poller to look on any other server and poll file from that server instead of the server where the Designer is installed?
Thanks
The File Poller can only access files and directories visible to the system the engine is running on, so you need to mount a network drive to poll files sitting on a remote server.
Another option would be to build a custom polling mechanism using the FTP Palette. You could use a Timer instead of a File Poller. On the first execution, the process would list the files in the remote folder using the FTP Dir activity then store this list in a Shared Variable. This list would contain the file names, last modification dates, etc.
Every time the process is triggered, it would run FTP Dir to compare the current list of files against the previous one to detect any changes (new files, modified files, etc.) then update the Shared Variable to keep the latest image of the remote folder. You could then run FTP Get to retrieve any new or modified file.
Our objective is as follows
a) Pick up a file "Test.csv" from a Secure FTP location.
b) After picking up the file we need to insert the contents of the file into an object in Salesforce.
I created the following connection for the Remote SFTP (the location which will contain "Test.csv")
Step 1
This is as shown below
Step 2
Then I started to build a Data Synchronization Task as below
What we want is for the Informatica Cloud to connect to the secure FTP location and extract the contents from a .csv from that location into our object in Salesforce.
But as you can see in Step 2, it does not allow me to choose .csv from that remote location.
Instead the wizard prompts me to choose a file from a local directory (which is my machine ...where the secure agent is running) and this is not what I want
What should I do in this scenario ?
Can someone help ?
You can write a UNIX script to transfer the file to your secure agent and then use informatica to read the file. Although, I have never tried using sftp in cloud, I have used cloud and I do know that all files are tied up to the location of the secure agent( either server or local computer) .
The local directory is used for template files. The idea is that you set up the task using a local template and then IC will connect to the FTP site when you actually run the task.
The Informatica video below shows how this works at around 1:10:
This video explains how it works at around 1:10:
http://videos.informaticacloud.com/2FQjj/secure-ftp-and-salesforececom-using-informatica-cloud/
Can you elaborate the Secure agent OS as in Windows or Linux.
For Windows environment you will have to call the script using WINSCP or CYGWIN utility I recommend the former.
For Linux the basic commands in script should work.
There are bat files on some servers that we have. I have Winform app that can view directory files and executables on different server. Is there a way that (based on the selected bat file), to be be able to run that bat file on that server from the Winform app.
Not in the way you are thinking. If you run a batch file from your machine (via app or manually) it runs locally on your machine, not on the remote server.
If you can install software, PsExec maybe be a good fit. If not, I have a couple of options I can think of.
Alternatives: create an app that runs on the server that knows when to run the batch files (via messaging, database records, etc) or use the Windows Task Scheduler.
The Task Scheduler approach is fairly simple. You could have the batch files set to run every one minute and at the start of the batch file, you do a file check. Your WinForm would create that file and at the end of the batch (if the file existed at the start) it would delete the file that triggers the batch.
I have created a batch file which starts a command line (IrfanView) with several arguments. The batch looks like this:
start /wait /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView" i_view32.exe C:\Source\*.png /advancedbatch /convert=C:\Destination\*.jpg
Basically it converts all PNG from source folder to JPEG using advanced batch settings stored in INI of IrfanView to destination folder.
The batch file is located on my server (same as IrfanView) and when manually started it works fine. I also tried to start the batch using SSIS execute process task, which also works when package executes manually.
Another option was to start IrfanView directly from the execute process task (so no batch file) and then manually trigger the package. Every option seems to work manually.
However, whenever I try to run the batch (cmdExec) or any package in SQL Agent it will run the job successfully, but... there is no output in the folder. So, it doesn't give an error, it simple does nothing.
When run manually the output files will appear as expected in the destination folder.
When run through SQL Agent no output files will appear although the job was run successfully.
Could it have to do with security settings? SQL Agent runs under local user with full administrator rights.
I have read something about credentials and proxy, but not sure how to use it and if it will solve the problem.
I have another job running which also calls an executable (7zip) in a SSIS package and it works fine.
If I use another program, for example Flash Renamer from command line, then the SQL Job keeps running (status in progress), while triggering the package or batch manually it works fine.
Using SQL Server 2008 (BIDS + SSMS)
How can this be resolved?
Command start often interprets first double quoted string as title string. Therefore it is necessary to specify a title in double quotes if any other string must be enclosed also in double quotes.
IrfanView does not require that its program directory is the current working directory. Therefore simply starting IrfanView with full path would be better in my point of view.
IrfanView option advancedbatch requires data from i_view32.ini. On running IrfanView with a different account, it will be necessary most likely to specify the path to the folder containing i_view32.ini.
i_view32.ini is usually stored either in program files directory of IrfanView or in directory "%APPDATA%\IrfanView".
The first option is usually not used anymore as default program files location "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView" on Windows x64 or "%ProgramFiles%\IrfanView" on Windows x86 is write-protected by default for users of Windows Vista and later Windows versions.
Therefore i_view32.ini is nowadays by default in application data directory of IrfanView of current user account.
Yes, environment variable APPDATA contains name of the user account and differs therefore from user account to user account. And by default user X has no permission to access the application data directory of user Y.
So on running IrfanView with a different account, file i_view32.ini or a copy of it containing the advanced batch conversion options must be located in a folder readable for all user accounts or at least the used account and on command line the path to this folder must be specified, too.
With summarizing up all information above, you would need most likely
start "Convert PNG to JPEG" /wait "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" C:\Source\*.png /advancedbatch /convert=C:\Destination\*.jpg /ini="Path to folder with i_view32.ini" /cmdexit
But below should also work if the batch file does not contain any other commands and therefore no batch file is needed at all.
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" C:\Source\*.png /advancedbatch /convert=C:\Destination\*.jpg /ini="Path to folder with i_view32.ini" /cmdexit