 How To Trigger a Run When a File Arrives

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FlightPath enables you to easily set up an arrival activation on a named-file. An arrival activation is a trigger that runs its named-file against a named-paths group whenever new data arrives.

How to do it

• Navigate to your project’s examples/schemas folder
• Right-click the directory in the project files tree on the left
• Select Stage data
• The Stage Data Dialog opens
• Uncheck Separate named-files and add the name schemas to the Named-file name field

• After hitting the Stage button you will see the schema named-file in the top right-hand window
• Right-click the schema named-file in the top right window. Select Arrival activation.

• In the dialog there are two required settings:
  • A named-paths group holding the csvpath statements you want to run when data arrives
  • The run method that determines how your run is processed

CsvPath Framework offers six run methods. FlightPath Data and FlightPath Server support four of them; the other two are for programmatic use only. The four are:

• collect_paths
• fast_forward_paths
• collect_by_line
• fast_forward_by_line

The fast forward run methods do not collect matching lines. The collect run methods do. The paths run methods apply every csvpath serially. The by_line run methods pass every line to all csvpaths in the group before starting the next line.