How to move a imported txt file from one folder to the other fold after running dataport.

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Now I am developing a dataport to import some general journal lines. In order to make sure that some text file is imported only once, I want to make the following function happened:
Once dataport import is done, the dataport will automatically move the text file from the current folder to another folder. But I am not sure of the command. SHELL command… or something else… and how to write the source code?

Would you guys give some hints? Thanks in advance.

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Hi cngillie,

I’ve done this by creating a processing only report, that calls the dataport, and then afterwards renames the file.

IF FILE.EXISTS(FileNameText) THEN
FILE.RENAME(FileNameText,NewFileNameText);

Don’t know if this is the optimal way, but it worked for me.

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[Y]

I think this is the best way. The major problem otherwise, is that the DataPort locks the file, an having the DataPort directly rename the file most often does not work.

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thanks very much!