How to include Creation Time into a Batch Macro?

Hi everyone,

I am still getting my hands on understanding batch macros. Originally, I created the macro because I have a huge directory of files with different schemas and needed to merge them together. One thing I need to include now is the Creation Time in order to perform further analysis. I tried included a select field and appended it before connecting to the output in the macro, but when I run my overall workflow it does not output the creation time. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

This is my batch macro

This is my workflow which is able to join the files together, though it does not read the select field that I appended to include the creation time for some reason

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Jonathan-Sherman

Hi @jason79121,

If you use your batch macro to draw through the file name you'd be able to join it back to the original directory tool (containing the creation date):

If you have any questions just let me know, i've attached my workflow for you to download!

Kind regards,

Jonathan

20220217 - AttachCreationTime.yxzp

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Jonathan-Sherman

Hi @jason79121,

I've got two thoughts on this, firstly are you looking to bring in the creation time of the input file itself or the time at which it was all merged together?

Secondly, if you're looking to bring in the creation time of each input file you could import the file name as part of the batch macro and join it back to the original directory tool to bring in the creation date info.