Condtions

[Mike Bushman]

I am looking for a way to create a condition on a job to check a folder and if it is empty to skip the process flow. Has anyone came across a way to do this?​

[Pete Wirfs]

We typically need to do this check against a windows folder, so I found a DOS script for doing the check and put it in a reusable UC4 job.  I pass it the folder name, a switch to tell it if it should count hidden files or not, and it either sets a return code of 0000 or 0100 to indicate if the folder is empty or not.
Here is the guts of that process script;

:if &HIDDENFILES# = "YES"
: set &ATTSWITCH# = "/a"
: print "Hidden files switch was turned on"
:else
: set &ATTSWITCH# = ""
: print "Hidden files switch was turned off"
:endif

@echo off

if not exist "&FOLDERNAME#" echo Could not find: "&FOLDERNAME#" & exit 200

for /F %%i in ('dir /b &ATTSWITCH# "&FOLDERNAME#*"') do (
echo Files exist in folder &FOLDERNAME# setting RC=0100
exit 100
)
echo No files found in folder &FOLDERNAME# setting RC=0000
exit 0

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Pete Wirfs
SAIF Corporation
Salem Oregon USA
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