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Old 06-19-2006, 08:15 AM
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"Process Files" needs option to process folders

It seems as though "Process Files" will always ignore folders in the specified directory unless you use the "Recursively search subfolders" option. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong, but I haven’t found a way of getting this action to recognize folder even at the specified directory level without the recursive flag. And then you end up getting all of the files in those directories as well.

In the system I am trying to build, I have a parent folder which contains a number of direct sub-folders. I would like to simply iterate over just these sub-folders (with a few exclusions), ignore all files, and then do some processing on the current sub-folder (as described by %PROCFILES_FULLPATH%).

How might I do this?
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Old 06-20-2006, 11:59 AM
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The 'once per folder' option does not currently work with non-recursive processing. This will be supported in the next release.
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Old 08-07-2006, 09:26 AM
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I'm not seeing this new behavior in the 6.2 Beta. Is it there? If so, how would I test this behavior?
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Old 08-07-2006, 11:20 AM
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It works in our tests. Attached is a sample.
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Old 08-07-2006, 11:34 AM
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Yes -- following your example this does seem to be working. The only "surprise" was that I had to check "Process empty folders" to get this to work. I'm not sure why I had to check that (my folders are not empty), but it will not work without that.
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Old 08-15-2006, 10:27 AM
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Could someone explain why I need to have "Process empty folders" selected? Why is this necessary in order for things to work?
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Old 08-15-2006, 12:02 PM
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That's just the way it works. Adding that option doesn't have any harmful effects, and it's fairly unusual to use the dir-only non-recursive combination, so we didn't think it mattered much.
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Old 08-15-2006, 01:17 PM
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Fair enough -- just be sure to document this behavior
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Old 08-15-2006, 04:37 PM
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This is now handled properly in the latest beta build.
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Old 08-16-2006, 09:10 AM
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Correct -- according to my tests with the latest Beta, you no longer need to check the "Process empty folders" option to get things to work as expected.

Thanks for fixing this.
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