How to Create Folder For New MonTH

Question

Hi Folks,

Can anyone asist how to create folder for new month and then save output in that folder everymonth.

Yoshiro_Fujimori · Answer

For the "then save output in that folder every month" part;

once the folder is created, you just need to output to each folder

with "Take File/Table Name from Field" option of Output Data Tool as below.

workflow.yxmd

Yoshiro_Fujimori · Answer

Hi @prpanw ,

Creating a folder is a function of OS (Windows).

To achieve this, you need to run a batch script from Run Command tool.

For the usage of this tool, you may check the sample workflow.

You may also want to check Tool Mastery | Run Command page.

Here is a sample workflow.

It will create a folder for each month (YYYYMM) in the input data under the workflow directory.

Workflow

The workflow replaces the placeholders in the batch template (workflow directory and folder list) .

You may want to change the flow to prepare the folder list as necessary.

Batch Template

@echo off
cd @workflowDirectory@
set "folderList=@folders@"
for %%i in (%folderList%) do (
  if not exist "%%i" (
    mkdir "%%i"
    echo added folder "%%i".
  ) else (
    echo folder "%%i" already exists.
  )
)

workflow.yxmd