Directory Listing

Description

Writes a table listing the files in a document directory. Use it to drive downstream steps from whatever files are present — for example, to loop over every file in a folder or to check what an upstream process delivered.

Directory

Select a document account, then press the Browse button to pick the folder to list.

Options

• File Pattern (optional) — a glob such as *.csv to list only matching files. Leave blank to list everything.
• Include Subdirectories — when checked, files in nested folders are listed as well.
• Target Table — the table that receives the listing.

Additional Settings

The Which Files options narrow the listing:

• Also list folders, with an IsFolder column (include_folders) — also list folders, as rows. Every row then carries a trailing IsFolder column, true for a folder.
• List the directory itself first (include_root_folder) — with include_folders, also list the directory itself, first.
• File Name Pattern (file_name_filter) — only files whose name matches. Pattern Type is Wildcard or Regular expression (type), and Match case sets case_sensitive.
• Folder Name Pattern (folder_name_filter) — only entries in folders whose names match, in the same form; every folder on the way down must match.
• Extensions (extensions) — only files with one of these extensions, without the dot. Match the extension’s case (extensions_case_sensitive) matches them with case.
• Include hidden files (a name starting with a dot) (include_hidden_files) and Include hidden folders and what is below them (include_hidden_folders) — clear either to leave out files or folders whose name starts with a dot.