FTP not working? (File drop) Stop here for a sec

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Our environment had some of the work they had queued up done for AKS this weekend.

About 3:30 AM, we could no longer print to Bartender, as we use a file drop to FTP.

This behavior was somewhat inconsistent, which I don’t quite understand, but the solution was this:

If in your code to your file drop you normally write to:

• \\machinename\12345\RestOfPath

Change your code to write to:

• \\machinename.epicordt.local\12345 \RestOfPath

And you should be good.

[aarong (Aaron Gulley)]

Stop hard coding server addresses. Use epicors helper.

string filePath = Ice.Lib.PathHelper.GetFolderPath(Epicor.ServiceModel.Utilities.SpecialFolder.CompanyData) + @"\";

[Hally (Simon Hall)]

Or use bartender REST

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@aarong

Stop hard coding server addresses

This is a different computer my friend, where there is no helper method, and it’s not hard coded, I have my own helper method.

[aarong (Aaron Gulley)]

@klincecum

my own helper method.

[utaylor (Utah Taylor)]

It’s nice

[tpynepeak (Tim)]

@aarong

Stop hard coding server addresses. Use epicors helper.

string filePath = Ice.Lib.PathHelper.GetFolderPath(Epicor.ServiceModel.Utilities.SpecialFolder.CompanyData) + @"\";

Gives an error

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\epi\storage\epicordata\Number of Company\Companies\Number of Company'.

[aarong (Aaron Gulley)]

It’s slightly changed

Review my post here

Read lines from file

**Correct Way Using the Sandbox ** To read a file in your function, instead of this: using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(Path.Combine(filePath, FileName))) var filePath = new FilePath(ServerFolder.CompanyData, "SubFolder", "FileName.txt"); using (var streamReader = this.Sandbox.IO.File.OpenText(filePath)) { string line = streamReader.ReadLine(); this.output = $"First line: {line}"; } Key Fixes FilePath is used instead of raw string paths. this.Sandbox.IO.File.OpenText(file…

[tpynepeak (Tim)]

Hey

It doesn’t compile, the first line blows up.

var filePath = new FilePath(ServerFolder.CompanyData, “SubFolder”, “FileName.txt”);

I changed the SubFolder to be one of our subfolders and the filename to be a text file that I dropped in there but no surprise that did not fix the compile error.

Is something else supposed to be substituted for ServerFolder.CompanyData?

Adding the Ice.Customization.Sandbox reference did not help the cause either.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@tpynepeak

var filePath = new FilePath(ServerFolder.CompanyData, “SubFolder”, “FileName.txt”);

FilePath only takes 2 arguments. No “SubFolder”.

var filePath = new FilePath(ServerFolder.CompanyData, "SubFolder/FileName.txt");