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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:

1. In your model, to add a new

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1. file exporter hover over the stream Customer Summary by Region, and

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1. press Image Added Add a new File Exporter
2. Give the new exporter the Name: Send Customer Summary Report

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2. Click 

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    to save your changes.
3. You will now see the new

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1. file exporter in the model.
2. 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 train with your email address:

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1. In the bottom right of the application, go to the 

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2. Update the Email Address with your email address

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2. Click 

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    to save your changes

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Complete settings for the file exporter.

1. Double-click on the new

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1. file exporter icon on your model view

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2. Tick the flag Enabled

3. In the field File Name (Expr) enter the value:

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   "customerSummaryByRegion.txt"

   
   

4. In the field Output Directory (Expr) enter:

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   "customerReports/customerSummaryByRegion"

   
   

5. Tick the flag Overwrite existing file
6. Tick the flag

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2. Go to the Send By Email

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1. 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:

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1. • tick
2. Go to the User Recipients

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1. section and click 

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2. In the New User Notification Rule. properties that opens, set:
   
   • Email As: To then click 

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   • In the Users section, click 

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      to open a list of users.
   • Drag the user Train (the user you are currently logged in as) into the list of recipients.

In the main File Exporter configuration form, press Image Removed

1. • Save and close the notification rule. PhixFlow adds the user to the list of User Recipients.

2. In the file exporter configuration form, click 

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   Note
   The pipe to the file exporter is dotted to indicate that it is a Push pipe. When linking a

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1. stream to a

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1. file exporter you must always use a

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1. push pipe. This is because you cannot run a

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1. file exporter on its own; it must always be driven from a

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1. stream. Otherwise, it has no data to process

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2. Run

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1. analysis on the

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1. Stream Customer Summary by Region
2. Check the log

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1. messages generated in the

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1. console – in particular scroll to the end; you should see messages telling you that a file has been exported
2. Now find your file - you should have received an email with the file attached
3. The file

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1. has also been exported to the PhixFlow server