By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
- Set up a File Exporterfile exporter
In this exercise you will create an export of the customer summary report, to a file:
- In your model, add a new File Exporterfile exporter:
- Hover over
Customer Summary by Region, and press
- Add a new File Exporter - Give the new exporter the Name:
Send Customer Summary Report - Press
- You will now see the new File Exporter file exporter on the modelling pane
- Hover over
Save your model layout.
As well as exporting the file to a directory on the PhixFlow server, you will email the file to yourself. Before you set this up, you need to update the user Train with your email address:
- Go to In the lefttop-hand menu bar and press
- Show the list of UsersDouble-click on the user Train to open the detailsright hand of the application, go to the User menu - Select My User Details
- Update the Email Address with your email address
- Press
to save your changes
To complete configuration of the File Exporterfile exporter:
- Double-click on the new File Exporter file exporter icon on your model viewIn the tab Details:
- Tick the flag Enabled
- In the field File Name (Expr) enter the value:
| Code Block |
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"customerSummaryByRegion.txt" |
- In the field Output Directory (Expr) enter:
| Code Block |
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"customerReports/customerSummaryByRegion" |
- Tick the flag Overwrite existing file
- Tick the flag
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- Header
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- Go to the Send By Email
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- section, and set the following:
- Email from:
system@PhixFlow.com - Subject Expression:
"Export of customerSummaryByRegion.txt at " + now() - Message Expression:
"Please find file customerSummaryByRegion.txt attached. Generated at " + now() - Attach File:
- Email from:
...
- tick
- Go to the User Recipients
...
- section
- Press
- Show the list of Users
- Drag the user Train (the user you are currently logged in as) into the list of recipients
- Press
In the
...
file exporter configuration form, press
Note that the pipe to the
...
file exporter is dotted – this means that it is a Push pipe. When linking a
...
stream to a
...
file exporter you must always use a
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push pipe. This is because you cannot run a
...
file exporter on its own; it must always be driven from a
...
stream (otherwise, it has no data to process).
- Run
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- analysis on the
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- stream
Customer Summary by Region - Check the log
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- messages generated in the
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- console – in particular scroll to the end; you should see messages telling you that a file has been exported
- Now find your file - you should have received an email with the file attached
- The file
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- has also been exported to the PhixFlow server