Foreach loop iteration question

Here's what I want to do. I have a list of items that I need to insert a comma between. For the last item there should be no comma afterward, so I need to flag this loop iteration as special.
<c:set var="numRsns" value="${fn.length(networksForm.regionalSportsNetworkStations)}"/>
<c:forEach var="rsn" items="${networksForm.regionalSportsNetworkStations}" varStatus="rsncounter">
 <c:if test="??? < numRsns" >
 <c:out value="${rsn.description}" escapeXml="false" />
 </c:if>
 <c:out value="${rsn.description}," escapeXml="false" />
</c:forEach>How can I find out what the current iteration of the loop is? I am fairly new to JSP and JSTL so all help is appreciated.
Thanks!

Another useful feature of the loop status variable - it has boolean properties "first" and "last" to indicate if it is the first or last row

<c:forEach var="rsn" items="${networksForm.regionalSportsNetworkStations}" varStatus="rsncounter">
<c:out value="${rsn.description}" escapeXml="false" />
<c:if test="${rsncounter.last}>,</c:if>
</c:forEach>
{code}
Also because everything in your loop is bolded, why not just put bold tags around the whole thing, rather than mark up each individual element?

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ForEach Loop Iteration Order

Hi,
I have a SSIS package that uses a Foreach Loop Container to iterate through a series of flat files. The order in which the files are iterated through is based on the name of the file. Is it possible to change the iteration order? More specifically, can the
iteration order be changed to the date when the file was placed in the iteration folder? i.e files that have been sitting in a folder for a longer amount of time get processed first?

you can change order but for that you need to use a control table based approach. Using file enumerator will always take order based on filename.
The approach would be like this. Have a for each loop based on file enumerator first. Take the filename and arrival date (this you can get inside a script task see
http://jamelcato.com/111/how-to-check-last-modified-date-using-ssis/) and populate the table with the information.
Have a object variable and set query as
SELECT fileName
FROM table
ORDER BY DateField
Then have a for each loop to iterate through object variable use ADO enumerator
http://www.select-sql.com/mssql/loop-through-ado-recordset-in-ssis.html
This would make sure it iterates based on file date value. Then have a variable inside to retrieve filename each time and use it for whatever processing you want.
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Yet another Try Catch question. Iterating through a ForEach loop

Confused on error handling in a Powershell ForEach loop. I’m looping through a list of registry keys, attempting
to open each one. If it succeeds, I do a bunch of stuff. If it fails, I want to skip to the next iteration.
If I was doing It in VBScript I’d do this:
For Each Thing In colThings
Open Thing
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
“oops”
Else
Do stuff
Do stuff
Do stuff
End If
Next
This is what I came up with in PowerShell. It seems to work, but just doesn’t seem powershell-ish. There must be a better way to use the catch output than just creating a $return variable and assigning it success or fail?
ForEach ($subKeyName in $subKeyNames)
try{$subKey = $baseKey.OpenSubKey("$subKeyName")}
catch{$return = "error" }
If($return -eq "error" )
“Oops”
Else
Do stuff
Do stuff
Do Stuff

I totally get what you're saying about formatting. I don't' have any habits yet, since I've only been working in Powershell since... well, what time is it now?
Unfortunately, It Has Been Decreed that we are no longer to use VBScript for any engineering solutions at work, so my 15 years experience in it now needs to be transitioned over asap. I don't have the luxury of crawling before I run. I'm trying not to be
frustrated, but it's like an English major waking up one day and being told "You must now speak French exclusively. Here's a book."
The Do Stuff example of my ForEach loop is about 50 lines of code involving matching values in subkeys of this registry key with another and collecting output. I tried wrapping the whole thing in a try section based on some examples, but it seemed odd, that's
why I'm asking. I'm used to tightly focused error handling at the point where an error may occur.
In this example I'm only interested in whether or not I can open the subkey (it exists, but I may not have permission). If I can't, there's no point in continuing with this iteration of the loop, I want to skip to the next one. So why include all the "Do
Stuff" in the the try section? From a readability viewpoint, it doesn't seem helpful.
Also, there may be more error handling deeper in the code. If I then put that in a try/catch, and then something else inside that, now I have nested try/catches mixed in with nested if/elses, all wrapped in a For loop.
Again, I can see how it works logically, but for readability not so much, and having all these braces 50 lines apart to match up is giving me eye strain :).
It sounds like David is agreeing with jrv, that putting the entire ForEach loop code into a try/catch is the conventional way to do it. I guess it makes as much sense as putting it all in an If-else-Endif, and I just need to adjust my paradigm.
But if not, my specific question was more along the lines of, is there a built in way to tell that the catch section has been executed, rather than me using it to populate an arbitrary variable and then read it? In VBScript, you execute something, and the
next line, you check the Err.number. I wasn't sure if you could do that with a try/catch.

Is it possible to control which iteration a ForEach loop should execute?

I'm using the example "SequenceFilePostStepFailure" so that the user can decide what to do when a step failes. If you choose "retry", the program returns and reruns a VI inside a ForEach loop. The problem is that the ForEach loop loads the VI with the next set of parameters.
Is there a way to control this? I would like the ForEach loop to not increment when the user wants to retry the step. It seems to me that the whole loop is considered 1 step, and that it is incremented because the whole loop is re run.
I was told that this is not the case if it's an error instead of a failure, and the user presses "retry".
Thanks

Never mind, i figuered it out. "RunState.Caller" were setting values in the wrong sequence.

[Forum FAQ] How to calculate the total count of insert rows within a Foreach Loop Container in SSIS?

Introduction
We need to loop through all the flat files that have the same structure in a folder and import all the data to a single SQL Server table. How can we obtain the total count of the rows inserted to the destination SQL Server table?
Solution
We can use Execute SQL Task or Script Task to aggregate the row count increment for each iteration of the Foreach Loop Container. The following steps are the preparations before we add the Execute SQL Task or Script Task:
Create a String type variable FilePath, two Int32 type variables InsertRowCnt and TotalRowCnt.
Drag a Foreach Loop Container to the Control Flow design surface, set the Enumerator to “Foreach File Enumerator”, specify the source folder and the files extension, and set the “Retrieve file name” option to “Fully qualified”.
On the “Variable Mappings” tab of the container, map the variable FilePath to the collection value.
Drag a Data Flow Task to the container, in the Data Flow Task, add a Flat File Source, a Row Count Transformation, and an OLE DB Destination, and join them. Create a Flat File Connection Manager to connect to one of the flat files, and then configure the
Flat File Source as well as the OLE DB Destination adapter. Set the variable for the Row Count Transformation to “User::InsertRowCnt”.
Open the Property Expressions Editor for the Flat File Connection Manager, and set the expression of “ConnectionString” property to
“@[User::FilePath]”.
(I) Execute SQL Task Method:
In the Control Flow, drag an Execute SQL Task under the Data Flow Task and join them.
Create one or using any one existing OLE DB Connection Manager for the Execute SQL Task, set the “ResultSet” option to “Single row”, and then set the “SQLStatement” property to:
DECLARE @InsertRowCnt INT,
               @TotalRowCnt INT
SET @InsertRowCnt=?
SET @TotalRowCnt=?
SET @TotalRowCnt=@InsertRowCnt+@TotalRowCnt
SELECT TotalRowCnt=@TotalRowCnt
On to parameter 1.
On the “Result Set” tab of the Execute SQL Task, map result 0 to variable “User::TotalRowCnt”.
(II) Script Task Method:
In the Control Flow, drag a Script Task under the Data Flow Task and join them.
In the Script Task, select variable InsertRowCnt for “ReadOnlyVariables” option, and select variable TotalRowCnt for “ReadWriteVariables”.
Edit the Main method as follows (C#):
public void Main()
// TODO: Add your code here
int InsertRowCnt = Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables["User::InsertRowCnt"].Value.ToString()
int TotalRowCnt = Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables["User::TotalRowCnt"].Value.ToString());
TotalRowCnt = TotalRowCnt + InsertRowCnt;
Dts.Variables["User::InsertRowCnt"].Value = TotalRowCnt;
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
          Or (VB)
          Public Sub Main()
        ' Add your code here
        Dim InsertRowCnt As Integer =
        Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables("User::InsertRowCnt").Value.ToString())
        Dim TotalRowCnt As Integer =
        Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables("User::TotalRowCnt").Value.ToString())
        TotalRowCnt = TotalRowCnt + InsertRowCnt
        Dts.Variables("User::TotalRowCnt").Value = TotalRowCnt
        Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
       End Sub
Applies to
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2014
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Hi ITBobbyP,
If I understand correctly, you want to load data from multiple sheets in an .xlsx file into a SQL Server table.
If in this scenario, please refer to the following tips:
The Foreach Loop container should be configured as shown below:
Enumerator: Foreach ADO.NET Schema Rowset Enumerator
Connection String: The OLE DB Connection String for the excel file.
Schema: Tables.
In the Variable Mapping, map the variable to Sheet_Name, and change the Index from 0 to 2.
The connection string for Excel Connection Manager is the original one, we needn’t make any change.
Change Table Name or View name to the variable Sheet_Name.
If you want to load data from multiple sheets in multiple .xlsx files into a SQL Server table, please refer to following thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7411741/how-to-loop-through-excel-files-and-load-them-into-a-database-using-ssis-package
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

Using an ssis variable object as a data source in a foreach loop container

hi we run 2012 std. I have an ssis var of type object that is hydrated from a dynamic query in an execute sql task. I can count on one thing in this object and that is that ID will always be the first "col" on each "row".
Otherwise, resultset can contain a variety of things based on params passed to this sub pkg.
I'd like to introduce a for each loop on this object and tap into index 0, ie the id column.
The first question is "will I be able to parse this object's id in a for each component?".
In the for each loop container properties, I c an item enumerator, ado enumerator, ado.net schema rowset and variable enumerator as enumerator choices. Which do I want if the answer to the 1st question is yes?

hoping 2 avoid a data flow. I wonder if what u r saying is that I cannot use an felc to do this. Or if u r showing one of many alternatives.
Sorry, bad title. I just changed that.
I just tried foreach from variable enumerator and aborted with a message that said my variable "coll" doesn't have an enumerator. Going 2 try some of the other choices.
I just tried ado enumerator and from what I can c it isn't actually iterating thru my resultset even once.
I just tried a foreach item enumerator giving "column 0" a data type that matches my ID but from what I can tell the component isn't iterating thru my collection.
ado.net schema rowset doesn't look inviting at all in that it looks like it wants to go back to the db. Not what I had in mind having already gotten this resultset into memory.
according to this article u r supposed to be able to do this using ado enumerator
social.technet.microsoft.com slash wiki slash articles slash sis-looping-over-object-variables-with-as-ado-enumeration-in-foreach-loop-container.aspx

ConcurrentModificationException while attempting a foreach loop

I'm writing a bit of code using JGraphT (not necessarily important that you understand how to use it though), and I'm running into a ConcurrentModificationException.
public static ArrayList<DirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge>> level2()
 Set<Long> vertices = graph.vertexSet();
 ArrayList<DirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge>> graphs = new ArrayList<DirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge>>();
 ArrayList<GraphSizeStorage> storage = new ArrayList<GraphSizeStorage>();
 int counter = 0;
 double foo = vertices.size()/10;
 System.out.print("\nCalculating the Level 2 graphs for all nodes: ");
 for(Long v : vertices)
 if(counter % foo == 0 && counter >= foo) { System.out.print("."); }
 DirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge> g = new DefaultDirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge>(DefaultEdge.class);
 g.addVertex(v);
 System.out.println("Adding Vertex: " + v);
 Set<DefaultEdge> edges = graph.outgoingEdgesOf(v);
 for(DefaultEdge e : edges)
 g.addVertex(graph.getEdgeTarget(e));
 System.out.println("Adding Vertex: " + graph.getEdgeTarget(e));
 g.addEdge(v, graph.getEdgeTarget(e));
 System.out.println("Adding Edge from " + v + " to " + graph.getEdgeTarget(e));
 //At this point, level 1 should be complete.
 //To get level 2, I'll get a set of g's vertices, and for all vertices that aren't v,
 //I'll basically add a new edge, the same way I did above.
 DirectedGraph<Long, DefaultEdge> gClone = g;
 Set<Long> gVertices = gClone.vertexSet();
 for(Long v2 : gVertices)
 {At that foreach loop near the end, I get the exception. The two lines before it were recently modified (to no avail) in hopes of fixing it; instead of two lines, it used to be one line that said
Set<Long> gVertices = g.vertexSet();
My question is: Is there an easy way to get around this exception? Would it be possible to copy the variable g instead of making a reference to it? How about its vertexSet?
Thanks for your help
KFJ

KungfuJoe wrote:
Eh, forget about it. I modified the loops, they don't give me too much trouble anymore. Optimization is key I suppose.If "optimisation" mean don't modify the collection when iterating over it.

How can I load a .xlsx File into a SQL Server Table using a Foreach Loop Container in SSIS?

I know I've REALLY struggled with this before. I just don't understand why this has to be soooooo difficult.
I can very easily do a straight Data Pump of a .xlsX File into a SQL Server Table using a normal Excel Connection and a normal Excel Source...simply converting Unicode to DT_STR and then using an OLE DB Destination of the SQL Server Table.
If I want to make the SSIS Package a little more flexible by allowing multiple .xlsX spreadsheets to be pumped in by using a Foreach Loop Container, the whole SSIS Package seems to go to hell in a hand basket. I simply do the following...
Put the Data Flow Task within the Foreach Loop Container
Add the Variable Mapping Variable User::FilePath that I defined as a Variable and a string within the FOreach Loop Container
I change the Excel Connection and its Expression to be ExcelFilePath ==> @[User::FilePath]
I then try and change the Excel Source and its Data Access Mode to Table Name or view name variable and provide the Variable Name User::FilePath
And that's when I run into trouble...
Exception from HRESULT: 0xC02020E8
Error at Data Flow Task [Excel Source [56]]:SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occured. Error code: 0x80004005.
Error at Data Flow Task [Excel Source [56]]: Opening a rowset for "...(the EXACT Path and .xlsx File Name)...". Check that the object exists in the database. (And I know it's there!!!)
I don't understand by adding a Foreach Loop Container to try and make this as efficient as possible has caused such an error unless I'm overlooking something. I have even tried delaying my validations and that doesn't seem to help.
I have looked hard in Google and even YouTube to try and find a solution for this but for the life of me I cannot seem to find anything on pumping a .xlsX file into SQL Server using a Foreach Loop Container.
Can ANYONE please help me out here? I'm at the end of my rope trying to get this to work. I think the last time I was in this quandry, trying to pump a .xlsX File into a SQL Server Table using a Foreach Loop Container in SSIS, I actually wrote a C# Script
to write the contents of the .xlsX File into a .csv File and then Actually used the .csv File to pump the data into a SQL Server Table.
Thanks for your review and am hoping and praying for a reply and solution.

Hi ITBobbyP,
If I understand correctly, you want to load data from multiple sheets in an .xlsx file into a SQL Server table.
If in this scenario, please refer to the following tips:
The Foreach Loop container should be configured as shown below:
Enumerator: Foreach ADO.NET Schema Rowset Enumerator
Connection String: The OLE DB Connection String for the excel file.
Schema: Tables.
In the Variable Mapping, map the variable to Sheet_Name, and change the Index from 0 to 2.
The connection string for Excel Connection Manager is the original one, we needn’t make any change.
Change Table Name or View name to the variable Sheet_Name.
If you want to load data from multiple sheets in multiple .xlsx files into a SQL Server table, please refer to following thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7411741/how-to-loop-through-excel-files-and-load-them-into-a-database-using-ssis-package
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

Can I append the file name from a Foreach Loop Container Enumerator into a SQL Server Statement?

I would like to pass back via an Email the name of the file that was successfully FTP'ed to a remote server. And I was hoping to do this via an Execute SQL Task with the following SQL Statement...but I just don't know if it will append the Foreach Loop Container
variable enumerator to the appended Email message that I am building in SQL Server or if I can and how I can...
I sort of get the feeling that I can try and do this via Dynamic SQL...I just don't know if by building dynamic SQL if my Foreach Loop Container enumerator variable will be appended to my Email Message via the SQL Server UPDATE
@[User::FTPFHFileName]
Or do I add a Data Flow Task and an OLE DB Command and pass the Foreach Loop Container enumerator variable to a Stored Procedure referenced in the OLE DB Command via a "?"
Thanks for your review and am hopeful for a reply.

Hello,
It seems that the issue had been solved and thanks for your sharing. It will be very beneficial for other community members who have similar questions.
I’d like to mark this issue as "Answered". Please also feel free to unmark the issue, with any new findings or concerns you may have.
Regards,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

How to bypass errors in the control flow in a foreach loop in SSIS?

Hi All,
Can anyone please get me through the solution for the below scenario:
- I have multiple XML files existing in the source system from where I need to read the data from each XML, validate and pull to staging database.
- So, to read the XML files from source, I have a foreach loop which will get the XML files from the source folder one by one and executes.
- There are multiple data flow tasks, script tasks, SQL tasks etc in the foreach loop to validate the business requirements.
Question: If there is an error in any of the component in foreach loop, it should log the error, come out of the loop from that point and pick up the next file with out stopping the execution. How can I achieve this?
Thanks,
Sri

Hi Sri,
According to your description, when there is an error in any of the component in Foreach Loop Container, you want to continue processing rest of the loop after recording the error file details.
To achieve your requirement, the first thing you need to do is create an OnError event handler for the Data Flow (or any other child executable). Once the event handler is created show the system variables in the variables window, locate the Propagate variable
and set it to false.
For more details, please refer to the following two blogs:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/384690/In-SSIS-how-to-continue-a-for-each-loop-container
http://visakhm.blogspot.in/2013/03/error-handling-in-ssis-loops.html
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

Foreach loop in static block won't compile

When I try to compile this:public class TestEnum
private static String[] numerals =
      {"einz", "zwei", "drei", "vier"};
static
    for (String n : numerals)
      // doesn't matter what's in here
public static void main(String[] args)
}I get this exception:An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.4.2-beta).
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitArrayForeachLoop(Lower.java:2269)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitForeachLoop(Lower.java:2242)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$ForeachLoop.accept(Tree.java:559)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1580)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeTranslator.translate(TreeTranslator.java:51)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeTranslator.visitBlock(TreeTranslator.java:131)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$Block.accept(Tree.java:497)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1580)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitClassDef(Lower.java:1645)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$ClassDef.accept(Tree.java:409)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1580)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1594)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translateTopLevelClass(Lower.java:2438)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:408)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:523)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:41)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:32)The same thing happens if I use foreach with a Collection instead an array. If I use an old-style for loop or Iterator in the static block, it compiles fine. I can also put the foreach loop in the main method, and it works. Is this a known bug?

You guys rock. Thanks for finding this problem. I'll get it fixed.

Nested af:forEach loop

Hi,
How can i use nested af:forEach loop. I can't use af:iterator for sure, please provide solution only using af:forEach.
<af:forEach items ="#{bindings.parentVO.rangeSet}" var ="parent">
<af:forEach items ="#{parent.chidVO}" var="child">
<af:outputLabel value="#{child.empId}"/>
</af:forEach>
</af:forEach>
here child.empId is not printing any value. Data is proper and bindings are also fine. Please guide why forEach is not working with parent-child VO?
I guess in second forEach loop I am missing something like parent.childVO._something_ i tried using parent.childVO.rangeSet and other option but it didn't work
Edited by: 899404 on Mar 14, 2012 10:47 AM

you could use af:iterator for your use-case.
Please find sample based on your use-case:
NestedIteratorSample.jspx:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
<f:view>
<af:document title="Sample" id="d1">
<af:messages id="m1"/>
<af:form id="f1">
<af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1" layout="vertical">
<af:iterator rows="#{bindings.Departments.rangeSize}" var="row"
value="#{bindings.Departments.treeModel}" id="outerIt">
<af:outputText value="Employees in #{row.DepartmentName}" id="ot1"/>
<af:iterator rows="#{bindings.EmployeesVO.rangeSize}" var="detailRow" value="#{row.EmployeesVO}"
id="innerIt">
<af:outputText value="#{'----------------'} #{detailRow.FirstName} #{detailRow.LastName}" id="ot2"/>
</af:iterator>
</af:iterator>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:form>
</af:document>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
NestedIteratorSamplePageDef.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<pageDefinition xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/uimodel" version="11.1.2.60.17" id="NestedIteratorSamplePageDef"
Package="com.samples.subbanasolutions.view.pageDefs">
<parameters/>
<executables>
<iterator Binds="Departments" RangeSize="25" DataControl="AppModuleDataControl" id="DepartmentsIterator"/>
</executables>
<bindings>
<tree IterBinding="DepartmentsIterator" id="Departments">
<nodeDefinition DefName="com.samples.subbanasolutions.model.DepartmentsVO" Name="Departments0">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="DepartmentId"/>
<Item Value="DepartmentName"/>
</AttrNames>
<Accessors>
<Item Value="EmployeesVO"/>
</Accessors>
</nodeDefinition>
<nodeDefinition DefName="com.samples.subbanasolutions.model.EmployeesVO" Name="Departments1">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="EmployeeId"/>
<Item Value="FirstName"/>
<Item Value="LastName"/>
</AttrNames>
</nodeDefinition>
</tree>
</bindings>
</pageDefinition>

JSTL forEach: zero iteration is not allowed

I have just written one of my first JSP pages with JSTL.
I used
<c:forEach var="numero" begin="0" end="${righe -1}" >
to replace
for (int i = 0; i < righe; i++ )
It seems to me that a c:forEach loop must be executed at least one time: in fact setting begin = end
the loop is executed once while setting end < begin causes an exception.
So I had to put the c:forEach inside a <c:if test="${righe > 0}"> .... </c:if>
Is there a better and cleaner way to translate a for loop into JSTL ?
Thanks

Nope, doesn't look like it.
It states clearly in the documentation:
end is INCLUSIVE
end must be >= begin
So your if tag around the forEach seems the only solution. I agree its not perfect, but it can be done.
What is the code you are repeating? Most of the time you want to iterate this variable i, ACTUALLY what you are doing is iterating through an array. In that case use the forEach tag with the var and items attributes, and it works wonderfully.
Cheers,
evnafets

Foreach Loop only looping once

Hi,
Please be patient and bear with me, for I am new to SSIS packages.
I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 to host the SQL Agent job and the SSIS package.
I am using Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition for designing the SSIS package. It is version 9.0.30729, Version 3.5 SP1.
I am on a Windows 8 machine.
My Foreach Loop Container seems to iterate only once when it should iterate numerous times, and this issue happens BOTH when I execute the SSIS package from within Visual Studio AND when I run a SQL Agent job to execute the SSIS package.
For the solution within Visual Studio, I have False for the property Run64BitRuntime.
In the SSIS pckg in Visual Studio, I have in the Variables pane a number of variables and these following variables pertain to my problem:
Name: objRs     Scope: the name of the SSIS package     DataType: Object    Value: System.Object
Name: txtVendorFamilyNumber   Scope: the name of the SSIS package DataType: String   Value: 111111
The value "111111" that I entered into the txtVendorFamilyNumber variable in the Variable Pane is NOT a realistic value as there are no vendor family numbers that have the value 111111. I will populate dynamically the real vendor family numbers
from within the SSIS package.
When I imported the SSIS package to SQL Server 2008 R2, via the ellipsis button for the Protection Level I chose the "Rely on server storage and roles for access control" choice.
Concerning the flow of the SSIS package, going down within Visual Studio from the beginning of the flow of the SSIS package, eventually I have an Execute SQL Task. In its General tab, it has "1252" for CodePage property, "Full result set"
for ResultSet property, "OLE DB" for ConnectionType property, "Direct input" for SQL Source Type property, "False" for BypassPrepare property, and the following for the SQLStatement property:
     select txtVendorFamilyNumber from tmpVendorFamily where VendorID = (select min(VendorID) from tmpVendorFamily)
In the tmpVendorFamily table on SQL Server 2008 R2, there are 379 rows of results for the SELECT statement above (starting with the values 100110, 100115, 100120, 100130, through the LAST row's value 106370.
In the Parameter Mapping tab of the Execute SQL Task Editor, I have nothing. In the Expressions tab of the Execute SQL Task Editor, I have nothing.
In the Result Set tab of the Execute SQL Task Editor, I have the value 0 for Result Name property and I have the value User::objRs as the value in the Variable Name property.
This Execute SQL Task has a green arrow (Constraint evaluation operation, Success in Value drop down) to the Foreach Loop Container.
In the Foreach Loop Editor, in the Collection tab, I have "Foreach ADO Enumerator" as the value in the Enumerator property. In the drop down for ADO Object Source Variable, I have chosen the User::objRs, and I have the radio button "Rows in
the first table" selected.
In the Foreach Loop Editor, in the Expressions tab, I have nothing.
In the Foreach Loop Editor, in the Variable Mappings tab, I have "User::txtVendorFamilyNumber" for the Variable property and I have the value "0" for the Index property.
So in the Foreach Loop, I first have a Script Task with the ReadOnly variable User::txtVendorFamilyNumber and with the ReadWrite variable User::TESTING_OnlyTesting that I created with a package scope, string datatype, and no default value. This Script Task
has the following code for testing purposes:
Dim strFullVerbiage As String
strFullVerbiage = "The value is: "
Dts.Variables("User::TESTING_OnlyTesting").Value = strFullVerbiage + Dts.Variables("User::txtVendorFamilyNumber").Value.ToString()
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
I have next in the Foreach Loop Container a Send Mail task. In the Expressions tab of the Send Mail Task Editor, I have for the Message Source property the following:
      @[User::TESTING_OnlyTesting]
The remaining tasks (including FTP Tasks) in the Foreach Loop Container are disabled for now as I am trying to figure out why the Foreach Loop only iterates the FIRST time, only iterates once.
When I run on SQL Server 2008 R2 the SELECT statement from the Execute SQL Task, I get 379 rows of results. The default value 111111 that I entered into the Variable Pane for the txtVendorFamilyNumber variable does NOT exist in any of these 379 rows of results.
The 1st row of results has for the txtVendorFamilyNumber column the value 100110. Then the subsequent rows of results have the values 100115, 100120, 100130, et cetera, ending with the value 106370 in the last row of results.
I imported the SSIS package into Integration Services on SQL Server 2008 R2. When I imported to Integration Services, in the Import Package editor for the Protection Level I chose the "Rely on server storage and roles for access control" choice
because there are FTP Tasks and we needed to use this "Rely on server storage and roles for access control" choice.
I created a SQL Agent job that executes this SSIS package.
When I run the SQL Agent job, no error happens and I get only ONE email with the value 100110 for the vendor family number in it. I should get 379 emails total, the 2nd email showing 100115, the 3rd email showing 100120, et cetera.
When I was testing while executing the SSIS package from within Visual Studio, I did NOT have the Send Mail task and I only had enabled one Script Task that had the ReadOnly variable User::txtVendorFamilyNumber and the following lines of code:
MsgBox(CType(Dts.Variables("User::txtVendorFamilyNumber").Value, String))
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
Executing the SSIS package with only this Script Task enabled within the Foreach Loop Container, I would get the ONE message box showing 100110 but I would not get any message box for a SECOND ITERATION of the loop.
Since my txtVendorFamilyNumber in the Variables Pane has the default hard-coded value 111111 that does NOT exist in the result set of the Execute SQL Task that feeds the Foreach Loop, and since the first and only email sent shows the value 100110 when I
run the SQL Agent job that runs the SSIS package that is set up to send an email from within the Foreach Loop Container, the FIRST LOOP seems to run correctly and shows correctly the 1st value 100110 in the 379 rows of results that populate the Foreach Loop
Container. Why does the Foreach Loop Container NOT loop more than once?
Could anybody give me any suggestions as to what the problem might be?
I thank you in advance for your consideration of my problem. I have been reading and reading on the Internet to try to find a solution but I have not solved yet my problem with the Foreach loop only iterating once.
Thanks much to you.

Gregarious greetings Arthur,
I very much appreciate your reply.
This morning I figured out my problem with the help of a fellow employee.
In my original post higher up, I had typed about the SELECT statement in the Execute SQL Task that is just before the Foreach Loop Container and that populates the User::objRs, and this SELECT statement was in the old DTS package in an old ActiveX script
task. The SELECT statement was in an old DTS package in an old ActiveX script task and I am creating a new SSIS package to replace the old DTS package so that we can move from the old version of SQL Server to a new SQL Server 2008 R2 server. Here is that
SELECT statement:
select txtVendorFamilyNumber from tmpVendorFamily where VendorID = (select min(VendorID) from tmpVendorFamily)
That SELECT statement above returns ONLY ONE result. I had not noticed it. That SELECT statement fills the objRs result set. The green arrow goes from the Execute SQL Task that has the SELECT statement down to the Foreach Loop Container that loops over the
result set. Since the SELECT statement that fills the result set only has one row of results, the Foreach Loop only looped once.
So for the Execute SQL Task that populates the result set User::objRs, I changed the SELECT statement to be the following:
--In the Utilities DB, this tmpVendorFamily table
--has only two columns named VendorID and txtVendorFamilyNumber.
SELECT DISTINCT txtVendorFamilyNumber
FROM Utilities.dbo.tmpVendorFamily
ORDER BY txtVendorFamilyNumber
Now the Foreach Loop will loop 379 times since the SELECT statement immediately above yields 379 rows of results.
So the Foreach Loop Container was fine. Its Collection tab has the "Foreach ADO Enumerator" for the Enumerator and has the "User::objRs" for the ADO Object Source Variable. Its Variable Mappings tab has "User::txtVendorFamilyNumber"
for the Variable and has "0" for the Index.
My problem was the SELECT statement in the Execute SQL Task that immediately precedes the Foreach Loop Container and that fills the User::objRs result set. The SELECT statement yielded only ONE row of results. When I corrected this morning that SELECT statement
so that it correctly yields 379 rows of results, the Foreach Loop Container loops 379 rows.
Thanks again for replying and trying to help. I very much appreciate it.
I consider this thread that I created to be closed since I figured out this morning how I needed to correct the SELECT statement in the Execute SQL Task that fills the result set on which the Foreach Loop loops.
Misko_Hviezdoslav   27-JAN-2015

FOREACH LOOP IN SSIS

I have a folder structure as below:
Main
--201310
----October language line.xlsx
----October billing report.xlsx
-- 201311
----November language line.xlsx
----November billing report.xlsx
-- 201312
----December language line.xlsx
----December billing report.xlsx
so the folder structure is main -> yearmonth folder -> files.
I have to loop through the yearmonth folders and then pick all the files from respective yearmonth folder.
Could someone help me do this. I am a newbie to SSIS.

Use the Foreach Loop File Enumerator. More details
here.
It fills an SSIS String variable with the complete path of the excel file. You can use that variable in an expression on the
ExcelFilePath property of the excel connection manager.
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