Cloverleaf and FTP

[Mark Brown]

Is there one, step-by-step “Cloverleaf FTP for Dummies” document?

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[Robert Kersemakers]

No, but it’s fairly easy to do.

To receive/get with FTP, choose ‘fileset-ftp’ as protocol.

Then in the Properties of the protocol, you get the first tab ‘Fileset Options’. In the box ‘Inbound’ fill in the Directory where you’re going to pick up the files and the Style (normally eof). Use scheduling to configure how often you want to scan and how many files you want to pick up, as usual.

On second tab ‘FTP Options’ you need to fill in Login and Password and on the bottom you need to fill in ip-adress of the Host that you’re going to connect to.

To send/put with FTP, choose ‘fileset-ftp’ as protocol.

Then in the Properties of the protocol, you get the first tab ‘Fileset Options’. In the box ‘Outbound’ fill in the Directory where you’re going to send the files and the Style (normally eof). You can also configure Temporary File to give the file a temporary name before the name is changed into the one that you configured with File. As usual you cnan dynamically configure the name of the outbound file as well, just like with the fileset-local protocal; in that case the field File will be ignored.

On second tab ‘FTP Options’ you need to fill in Login and Password and on the bottom you need to fill in ip-adress of the Host that you’re going to connect to.

Does this help?

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Max Drown (Infor)]

To add to that a little, if you find you need more FTP power, use a UPoC thread and write a tcl proc that uses the ftp package. The Tcl FTP package is very powerful and easy to use.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Cory Cole]

What is the format for the directory…

/directory/

or

directory/

[Robert Kersemakers]

I always use /directory.

To check, just make an ftp connection from your terminal/pc/server to the ftp-server, logon and do

Code:

cd /directory

If this brings you to the place where you need to be, then use that /directory.

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Max Drown (Infor)]

It depends on the path to your folder on the server.

/directory means the path is at the root level. When the FTP service conencts it will do “cd /directory”.

directory/path/path/… is a relative path starting on the location where your user sits when he first logs in. The FTP service will do a “cd direcoty/path/path” from the current location.

The easiest way to determine what the path is is to use WinSCP and connect to the server and look at the path.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

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