Scripting component.

Hi Guys,

I need to generate a file using script component. I'm taking some data from an oledb source and then i would need to modify the fields, generate new fields and then generate the flat file.

I don't have any problems with this but the file i need to replicate would need to have a head record and a trail record which doesn't need to be duplicated.

Now when i generate the file and put anything in "Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow" it will work but it will generate the header record again and again as well.

Any quick help would be really appreciated.

TA

Gemma

Gemma,

Any reason for using the script component to create the file? Can you just use the script to populate the pipeline and use a flat file destination for the file? If so, I recently described how you would go about creating a flat file with header and trailing records.. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2168163&SiteID=1

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Hi Eric,

I'm just combinging the fields, padding the fields with zero and doing some cleaning of the data as well.

Is there any other way? I've checked your post but I don't know how to add something from the database in the header.

Yes you can enter any expressions but i need the value from the table.

Can you help me do that?

TA
Gemma

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Add a boolean flag at the class level and default it to True, Then in the ProcessInput check the flag. If it is True, write the header line and change the flag to false.

There's an example of that approach in the script I posted here - http://agilebi.com/cs/blogs/jwelch/archive/2007/09/14/dynamically-pivoting-rows-to-columns.aspx. The example is not what you were asking about, but the script illustrates the technique.