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Introduction

The To File component is a destination component that writes incoming data to a file or multiple files as needed. It serves to expand on the File Writer component with additional configurations and settings.

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titleSTEP 2: Setup the component configurations & the quickstart guide
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Any field marked with red asterisk is required, otherwise the default value inside the config.json will take its place.

FIELD NAME

Description

DEFAULT VALUE

DestinationDirectory*

Defines where the destination folder will be placed

[EMPTY]

OutputFileMask

Defines the name of the files as well as the extension

output_%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.txt

OneFilePerMessage

Specifies whether each message will have its own file

false

OutputEncoding

Defines the encoding that is used in the output file - if left empty, it will default to either Western (ISO-8859-1) or Western (Windows-1252) depending on the OS

[EMPTY]

Escape8BitCharacters

Specifies whether to escape non-ASCII characters

false

UseTempFiles

Specifies whether to use temporary files while writing

true

Quickstart

If you want one file for all messages

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If you want one file for all the messages that came in a second/minute/hour/day/month/year

You can remove the timestamp masks to match your needs here (S = seconds, M = minutes and so on…)

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If you want one file for every message

Timestamp masks still get their values replaced with the current time but will not save multiple messages in one file.

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