Get a file with FTP

Action name

The name of the workflow action.

Server

FTP server name/IP address

The name of the server or the IP address.

Server Port

Port number of the FTP server.

Username

The user name associated with FTP server account.

Password

The password associated the FTP server account.

Proxy host

Proxy server host name.

Proxy port

Proxy server port number.

Proxy username

Proxy server account user name.

Proxy password

Proxy server account password.

Advanced

Binary mode

Enable if files must be transferred in binary mode.

Timeout

The FTP server timeout in seconds.

Use Active FTP connection

Enable if you are connecting to the FTP server using Active mode; you must set your firewall to accept connections to the port that your FTP client will open. The default is Passive mode.

Control Encoding

Encoding matters when retrieving file names that contain special characters. For Western Europe and the USA, ISO-8859-1 usually suffices. Select encoding that is valid for your server.

Remote

Remote directory

The remote directory on FTP server from which files are taken.

Wildcard (regular expression)

Regular expression when you want to select multiple files. For example: .txt$ : get all text files A.ENG:0-9.txt : files starting with A, ending with a number and .txt

Remove files after retrieval

Remove the files on the FTP server, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred.

Move files after retrieval

Move the files on the FTP server to the folder specified below, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred.

Move to Folder

Moves files to specified folder on the server.

Create Folder

Creates folder that will contain files.

Local

Target Directory

The directory where you want to place the retrieved files.

Include date in filename

Adds the system date to the filename (_20101231).

Include time in filename

Adds the system time to the filename (_235959).

Specify date time format

Enable to provide your own date/time format; the default is yyyyMMdd'_'HHmmss

Date time format

Select date time format.

Add date before extension

Adds date to the file name before the extension.

Don’t overwrite files

Enable to skip, rename, or fail if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory.

If file exists

Action to take if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory.

Add filenames to result

Enable to add the file name(s) read to the result of this workflow.

Host

Socks Proxy host name.

Port

Socks Proxy port number.

Username

User name associated with the Socks Proxy account.

Password

Password associated with the Socks Proxy account.