How to add CustomerID and LastName to the file name in SSIS?

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How to add CustomerID and LastName to the file name in SSIS?

sxzhu

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June 25, 2023 at 3:49 am

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There are several text files that are saved in a local driver. The file names are:
Each file has only one record. The record includes fields of CustomerID, FirstName, LastName, and SubmittedDate, see below.
I would like to add CustomerID, LastName and CurrentDate to the file name. The format for file name is CustomID_LastName_FileName_CurrentDate.
Thanks in advance.

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247037 More actions · Answer 1

What technique are you using to create the files? A data flow within a loop, perhaps?

What method are you currently using to name the files? Script task? Dynamic variable? Something else?

sxzhu SSC Enthusiast Points: 178 More actions · Answer 2

I use a Data Flow Task within For Loop Container to split rows into files and save to a local drive. The file names are from a variable 'Counter' that is used in Flat File Connection Manager expression.

Thank you!

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247037 More actions · Answer 3

This is an interesting one. This is what I would try, I think:

First, change the way that the file-naming works. I'd use a static file name (somefile.txt, or whatever), and add a task to rename the file after the dataflow task completes, but inside the For Loop container.

The rename would be from somefile.txt to a variable User::filename.

User::filename would be set inside the dataflow task. Add a Script Component transformation between source and target and add User::filename to the read/write variables collection. Add CustomerId, LastName to the Input Columns collection.

A simple bit of C# will allow you to set the value of User::filename as required.

If you have full control over the filename format, I'd suggest you consider using YYYYMMDD_CustId_Surname.txt instead, where YYYYMMDD is 'today'. If you do this and ever find you have files in a folder created over a number of days, you'll easily be able to sort the filenames by creation date in File Explorer.

sxzhu SSC Enthusiast Points: 178 More actions · Answer 4

Many thanks! How to use a static file name because the variable Counter is dynamic?

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247037 More actions · Answer 5

sxzhu wrote:

Many thanks! How to use a static file name because the variable Counter is dynamic?

Edit your package in VS and change the definition of the flat file destination so that it no longer uses Counter.