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How to use the box tool to dynamically load files with a wildcard?

raku0326
6 - Meteoroid

Question :
Is there a way to use the box tool to dynamically load a file that has a different part of the file name each time, like a wildcard, instead of an absolute path?

■Background:
We would like to use the Box input tool in place of the input Data tool we are currently using for our business.
(The files are on Box, but when we upload WF to Gallery and run it, the Server side PC does not sync Box in time and reads the old files, so we are trying to read the files with the Box tool.)

Example: Every day a new file is outputed on box and the file naming convention is yyyymmdd_[fixed file name].csv.
The old way was to use the Data Entry Tool or the Dynamic Entry Tool to load *_[fixed filename].csv in the box using wildcards.
The box tool only seems to be able to read in files with absolute paths, but I would like to read in files with different dates each time using a wildcard like the one above.

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