how ot change file name moving another location using FetchSFTP

Hi @enam,

1. Please set the Create Directory to false to avoid the folder creation.

2. you can change the filename using UpdateAttribute processor by following below steps:

   2.1:  let say your file name is "97435cb8-b8b1-4b4d-b60b-f6aa98a15ba9" and UUID is "97435cb8-b8b1-4b4d-b60b-f6aa98a15ba9" 

  2.2. Now drag the UpdateAttribute name  and writedown the below Expression Lang

updated file name

OR

Output:

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Hi @enam ,

Did above solution help you?

Hi Sorry for late reply.

It move the file to my destination folder. But it create new folder destination folder..I want to stop create folder & move the file to my destination folder with new unique id and the file name. Here is the configuration: 

In back file it  create new folder :

But if I want to create directory false , it would not move the file to the directory. I also try add move destination directory like /home/account-to-account/${now:format('yyyMMddHHmmss')}_${filename} which also not working

@enam 

The FetchSFTP processor only supports specifying a target directory path in which the source file on the SFTP server will be moved.  It does not support the renaming of the source file during that move. When you configure the filename in the "move destination directory" it creates that filename as a directory in which it puts the source file using the value from the FlowFiles "filename" attribute.

Your option is to set "completion strategy to "Delete File" and then route the "success" relationship via two separate outbound connections.  One connection will continue down your existing dataflow path.  The second connection will feed an UpdateAttribute processor (used to change filename) and then a putSFTP processor to write it back the SFTP server in the new directory.

The NiFi FlowFile routed to "success" relationship in connection 1 will retain original filename.
The NiFi FlowFile routed to "success" relationship in connection 2 will have its original filename modified by the UpdateAttribute processor as follows before being written back to SFTP server in new folder via the putSFTP processor.

Update Attribute configuration (click "plus" icon to add new dynamic property):

Property = filename
Value = ${filename:substringBeforeLast('.')}-${UUID}.${filename:substringAfterLast('.')}

You can then auto-terminate the success relationship of the putSFTP processor.  terminating FlowFile down path of connection 2 will have no impact on FlowFile routed to connection 1.  Make sure that you set the target path in the putSFTP processor (path does not include filename).

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Thank you,
Matt