Using Date.now() while exporting files

[darshthakkar]

Hi Team,

While writing files via sftp, I’m unable to ingest Date.now() in the filename itself as seen in the snaps below:

(1) Successful execution [passing pipeline parameter and selecting the ‘=’ decorator

(2) Failed execution [NEITHER passing any parameter NOR selecting ‘=’ decorator]

The reason behind not selecting = decorator is - “I’m not passing any parameter to dynamically generate filename”
If the file name needs to be constant and it needs to be exported via sftp with Date.now(), what tweaks should I do? I’m pretty sure, snapLogic would be able to handle that and I might be doing something wrong here.

Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

Regards,
DT

[bojanvelevski]

First, check the spelling, I wrote the expression from the image you provided, so I may have missed something.

Also, I noticed that you’re using 2 different snaps in your samples above, so check if the Account is properly configured.

[darshthakkar]

@bojanvelevski, I didn’t copy paste the link you provided as I have a different sftp location [which I can’t share unfortunately publicly]

Regarding account, yes, both the snaps have been mapped to the right account —> I double checked it.

Really appreciate your attention to detail, both the points were valid but it has already been taken care of!

[bojanvelevski]

Check if the directories are already created and the path is valid. There’s an option within the File Writer snap that allows you to create the directories/path provided, if they’re not already present.

Try this and let me know.

[darshthakkar]

bojanvelevski:

Check if the directories are already created and the path is valid. There’s an option within the File Writer snap that allows you to create the directories/path provided, if they’re not already present.

Try this and let me know.

This is not a concern as I’m able to write files at the same location without Date.now()

[darshthakkar]

darshthakkar:

(1) Successful execution [passing pipeline parameter and selecting the ‘=’ decorator

@siwadon: Thanks for the clarification, I’ve replied to my previous comment so that you can check the screenshot of a successful run.

Date.now() works well if I’m passing a parameter for writing my files however if I provide a static name to a file (e.g. TestFile) and want to ingest Date.now(), it doesn’t work.

Again, Date.now() to a static file name would work if the files are written in snapLogic Manager however I faced the challenge while writing the files to a sftp.

Let me know if you need any further clarifications and I would be more than happy to provide you all the details.