Doubt on a workflow - Suggestions needed

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Hi ,

Am trying to do a simple workflow.

  1. pick a set of files from a folder with todays date (where multiple files with different dates are available).
  2. upload to some web portal - which will give me a summary of each file stating “updated successfully” along with the file name (say if i have 50 files with name File 1, File 2,… File 50. I would be getting status for each file)
  3. Need to identify the name and its status … if the status is SUCCESS in the portal, I need to move those file names from the Folder to another folder called “SUCCESS” folder.

Your thoughts and simplest way of advice would help me much here.

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Hi,

Here would be my approach - code/pseudocode:

filelist<String[]> = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(directorypath).Where(Function(f) Path.GetFileName(f.ToString).Contains(Now.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"))).ToArray   // store to Array of strings

For each file In filelist   // TypeArgument set to String
    Process upload file.ToString to web portal
    GetText of status
    If text.ToUpper.Contains("SUCCESS")
        Move File activity   // from file.ToString to Path.Combine(successDirectory,Path.GetFilename(file.ToString)))

The first step was to store your list of files to process for today’s date (assuming that was your goal).

Sorry I could not provide better ideas for the upload part or GetText part since it relies on the functionality of the portal.

Hopefully this is helpful.

Regards.

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Thanks @ClaytonM. just one clarification… in ur code, i could see that to get the files directory path. Here is my situation… I will be getting the status of the file in a tabular format… like with the file name and the status.

For eg. i am uploading the File A from /desktop/KK-test/rough/FileA.pdf and File B etc… once its uploaded, the result would be displayed in a table as File A - succesfully uploaded and File B - upload failed.

I have to check the time of File A (say if its 9.30 AM) and need to compare with the system time… (say its 4.30 PM). if the file time is greater than 4 hours of system time i need to move that file A to a different folder. Is this possible? can you help me to get the file time and compare with system time?

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Hi @kk.virags

So, I put this in quick to show how you can check a difference in time.
this will give you creation time: System.IO.Directory.GetCreationTime()
then, also set a System.Timespan variable, like 04:00:00

You can do this inside the ForEach, so it does it for each file:
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You can also use .GetCreationTime or .GetLastAccessTime

I hope this helps.

Regards.