https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/trigger-GetFile-in-nifi/m-p/190501#M152590 <P>Hi, </P><P>I having a nifi job which using a getFile to read a hive script into a flowfile and execute it in PutHIVEQL processor </P><P>I would like my flow to be triggered by something outside nifi </P><P>My thought was to put a listFile before the getFile processor and activate the flow with i little script touching a file in then listFile folder that would also prevent it to run more than once at a time. </P><P>But Getfile has no input, i really want to keep my hivescript in a file, is there someway to implement such a functionality </P><P>Best regards </P><P>Simon </P> Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:39:33 GMT simon_jespersen 2018-01-16T23:39:33Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/trigger-GetFile-in-nifi/m-p/190501#M152590 <P>Hi, </P><P>I having a nifi job which using a getFile to read a hive script into a flowfile and execute it in PutHIVEQL processor </P><P>I would like my flow to be triggered by something outside nifi </P><P>My thought was to put a listFile before the getFile processor and activate the flow with i little script touching a file in then listFile folder that would also prevent it to run more than once at a time. </P><P>But Getfile has no input, i really want to keep my hivescript in a file, is there someway to implement such a functionality </P><P>Best regards </P><P>Simon </P> Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:39:33 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/trigger-GetFile-in-nifi/m-p/190501#M152590 simon_jespersen 2018-01-16T23:39:33Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/trigger-GetFile-in-nifi/m-p/190502#M152591 <P>FetchFile should be used with ListFile to handle this.</P> Wed, 17 Jan 2018 01:36:56 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/trigger-GetFile-in-nifi/m-p/190502#M152591 bbende 2018-01-17T01:36:56Z