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Set up file collector to load email messages and/or attachments
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Emails will be collected from the email account you have set up, and stored on the PhixFlow server. From this store, you can read these in using a file collector.
Full details for this configuration and found in fileCollector, but in this article we will go through a typical set up which should cover most cases.
The file collector will need to have the following settings (see also the screen shot below):
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| Source Type | Managed File | ||||
| File Type | The type of the attached file, or for reading the email message itself (the body), probably CSV | ||||
| File Location Strategy | All Files in Folder | ||||
| Tag | If a tag is being set (see below), the tag name surrounded by double quotes. E.g.:
If a tag is not being set:
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| Input Directory Expr. |
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| Directory Pattern Expression |
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| File Pattern Expression | A pattern to match attached files, e.g. to find attached files with names like
or if you want to read in the email messages (body) this will be just
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| Archive Directory Expression |
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Setting a tag
You can set a tag for the emails by including
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#tagValue |
in the subject line of incoming emails. Note that the resulting tag you use in the file collector will be all in lower case. For example, if incoming emails have a subject line like
PhixFlow input file accounts 20170426 #accDataEmail
then use the tag
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"accdataemail" |
in your file collector configuration.
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You don't need to know this to complete the configuration of the file collector, but sometimes you might find it helpful to be able to find the files delivered by the email polling service. In system configuration you will have, under the tab System Directories, a setting File Upload Directory. For example:
If you have not specified a tag in the subject line of your incoming emails, files will appear in directories:
E.g.
If you have specified a tag in the subject line of the emails, files will appear in directories:
E.g. with the tag "accdataemail"
Archiving If you set an archive directory, your files will be moved once they have been read in by the file collector. This will be to:
E.g. if you set the archive directory to "archive" (as in the examples above), your files will be moved to directories like:
or, if you are using the tag "accdataemail":
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