FTP Sender Adapter - File Order

Hi,
can somebody tell me, in which order files are being read via the ftp sender adapter when using wildcards for the filename ?
I need to process the files sorted by name. Is there any possibility to get this done ?
BR,
Martin

hi Martin,
Check this forum discussion.
Re: FTP Sender Adapter - Processing Sequence
and check out Praveen reply regarding your query
regards
Ramesh P

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the scenario is FTP -> XI -> IDOC and we have problems with the polling of the files. In communication channel monitoring everything is working fine, but in the FTP folder some files are ignored, although the communication channel is set up for all *.txt-files.
My question is, is it possible that the FTP sender adapter ignores files, if it already has processed a file with the same filename? After renaming the files they all were picked up and archived into another folder. How can I configure the communication channel to pick up ALL *.txt-files in the out-folder?
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Hi David,
What I have observed is, XI always reads files in a certain order (possibly alphabetical or reverse alphabetical). If it finds a file in the source directory that already exists in the archive directory, it will not attempt to read/process the next file (even if the next filename is completely new).
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I am not sure whether it is made so intentionally be SAP. However, if you wish to resolve this issue, you can specify a wild card for file names, such as the file extension (for example, *.txt).
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Does anybody know what the processing sequence of files is when I using a ftp sender adapter? I can only determine this if I use a file sender adapter (NFS).

Hi,
in sender file ( FTP ) adapter:
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Oops!! I misunderstood it
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Could you help me to make xml-file from csv?
I have file like:
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File content conversion sites
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
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Hi all!
I have a question about file content conversion in sender file adapter.
I have file like:
{field1
field2
field3
field4
$
{field5
field6
field7
field8
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<field3>field3</field3>
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<field1>{field5</field1>
<field2>field6</field2>
<field3>field7</field3>
<field4>field8</field4>
<field5>-}*</field5>
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<deal>
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</deal>
<deal>
<field1>field3</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>field4</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>-}*</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1/>
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<field1>{field5</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>field6</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>field7</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>field8</field1>
</deal>
<deal>
<field1>-}*</field1>
</deal>
</dealings>
</ns:mt_swift_file>
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As i understand, XI put string to a separate tag after symbol 'nl', but how can i get structure without unnecessary tags?

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Introduction to simple (File-XI-File)scenario and complete walk through for starters(Part2)
File Receiver with Content Conversion
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Introduction to simple(File-XI-File)scenario and complete walk through for starters(Part1)
Introduction to simple (File-XI-File)scenario and complete walk through for starters(Part2)
How to send a flat file with various field lengths and variable substructures to XI 3.0
Content Conversion (Pattern/Random content in input file)
NAB the TAB (File Adapter)
File Content Conversion for Unequal Number of Columns
Content Conversion ( The Key Field Problem )
The specified item was not found.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
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Sender Adapter File Content Conversion

Hi everyone,
Can someone help me out here?
For some reasons, out of the fields declared, only 20 gets filled!
Scenario, I've configured the file sender adapter with file content conversion. It's picking up an fixed length ASCII file.
Here are the Content Converion Parameters:
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