Setting FileName without using Orchestration

Question

Hello All,
I have a requirement where, the file name should be ABC_yyyyMMddHHmmss.So I am using, Message Assignment shape in the orchestration
Message(FILE.ReceivedFileName) = "ABC_" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
Is there any way of doing without orchestration. I tried using the %datetime_bts2000% but that has YYYYMMDDhhmmsss, where sss means seconds and milliseconds. I dont need milliseconds in the filename. Thanks

Answer 1

To Add to my above reply..
ABC_%datetime%.xml macro will have output like ABC_2015-02-24T160045. But it doesn't choose your required format.
Closer to yours as you use is %datetime_bts2000%. But if you don't need milliseconds you can't use macro. You need to achieve this is in custom pipeline where you construct the name of the output file in the format as you want. Following code achieves your
requirement.
public IBaseMessage Execute(IPipelineContext pc, IBaseMessage inmsg)
//set friendly date string
string dateString = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
//write updated value back to context
inmsg.Context.Write("ReceivedFileName", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/file-properties", "ABC_"+dateString);
//return the message with modified context
return inmsg;
NOTE: It depends on frequency of the message. If you have more frequent messages, then I would have better combination to avoid file overwritten issue.
Regards,
M.R.Ashwin Prabhu
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