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1. Add a File Collector to the model and confiure it as follows:
   
   1. Source Type = Specified Directory
   2. File Type = File Details Only
   3. File Location Strategy = All Files in Folder
   4. Input Directory Expression = Enter the name of the folder relative to the Import File Locaion in  System Configuration. Put the folder name in double quotes e.g "Data Files"
   5. File Pattern Expression = ".*." (This will read all file types)
2. Make sure the Enabled and Allow on-Schedued collection checkboxes are checked and then save and close the file colletor
3. Hover over the file collector and select Add a New Stream
4. Add an attribute to the stream to hold the fie name and enter the expression "in._fileName" without the quotes.
5. Run analysis on the stream and view the filenames

Copying multiple PhixFlow Objects

File Collector Configuration

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 Example Folder and Results in PhixFlow

Example 2: Read all files with a given file

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Step-by-step guide

This example shows how to modify the process to only read the csv files. This can be useful when there are multiple file types in a single folder and you want to have separate streams for each type, or just process them separately.

1. Add a File Collector to the model and confiure it as follows:
   
2. Source Type = Specified Directory
3. File Type = File Details Only
4. File Location Strategy = All Files in Folder
5. Input Directory Expression = Enter the name of the folder relative to the Import File Locaion in  System Configuration. Put the folder name in double quotes e.g "Data Files"
File Pattern Expression = ".*.Copy the file collector and stream using the following steps:
1. Hold  down shift and selecting the two objects by left-clicking on them
2. Select Copy Selected Object
6. Modify the Input Directory Expression on the new stream to  ".*.csv" (This will read all file typesfiles of type csv)
7. Make sure the Enabled and Allow on-Schedued collection checkboxes are checked  is  checked and then save and close the file colletorHover over the file collector and select Add a New Stream
8. Add an attribute to the stream to hold the fie name and enter the expression "in._fileName" without the quotes.
9. Run analysis on the stream and view the filenames for the filenames csv files

Copying Multiple PhixFlow Objects

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