Input text file in Analytic App

Has anyone had success pointing a file browse to a text file in an analytic app? I currently have to do this in Designer and manually "Resolve File Type" to read as csv. I would have thought configuring this once and saving the workflow would resolve the issue, but it does not...

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DavidP

How about converting your input data tool to a dynamic input tool and connect a text input tool to it. You can then connect the action tool to the text input tool to modify the filename.

With this, the dynamic input tool has a template file and should remember the settings

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DavidP

How about converting your input data tool to a dynamic input tool and connect a text input tool to it. You can then connect the action tool to the text input tool to modify the filename.

With this, the dynamic input tool has a template file and should remember the settings

hhowell

Thanks @DavidP ! That worked great. I have not utilized the dynamic input tool before, but its ability to remember the settings worked great.

For anyone else with a similar issue, attached is the beginning of my revised workflow. Instead of plugging the file browse directly into an input tool, I now have it pointed to a blank input text tool with the action tool updating the first cell.

Then that is connected to the dynamic input tool. Within its configuration, you will have to attach a template (I just a similar text file as an example) and resolve the file type issues once. Now the workflow remembers these settings and the app works as designed!

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