Load File Content In Memory

Description

Load File Content In Memory reads the entire content of one or more files into memory and makes it available as a field in the data stream. Use this step when your workflow needs to process file contents directly — for example, loading a text template, reading a JSON configuration file, or passing file content to a scripting step for parsing. It also captures file metadata such as size, type, and modification time, making it useful for file-based automation scenarios where both content and attributes are needed.

Configurations

Field Name	Description
Step name	Specify the name of the step. This name can me modified from the default name and has to be unique within the workflow.
Dynamic Filename:
Filename is defined in a field	Enable checkbox to get filename from field.
Get filename from a field	Select the field from which to get filename.
Or
File or directory	Browse the file or directory to load in memory.
Regular expression	If directory is chosen filter filenames using regular expression.
Exclude Regular expression	Exclude filenames with this regular expression.
Selected Files:	View the selected files.
File/Directory	View added Directory or filename.
Wildcard	View Regular expression applied.
Exclude wildcard	View Regular expression to exclude files.
Required	Is this file requir (Y/N). The default value is N.
Include subfolders	Select value for: Include subfolders(Y/N). The default value is N.
Content Tab:
Settings:
Encoding	Choose the file content character encoding.
Ignore empty file	Enable to ignore empty file.
Limit	Provide content limit.
Additional fields:
Include filename in output?	Enable checkbox to include file name in output.
Filename fieldname	Provide the field name for Filename output.
Rownum in output?	Enable to see row number in output.
Rownum fieldname	Specify field name for rownum.
Add to result filename:
Add files to result filename	Enable this checkbox to add the names of the files read to the result of this workflow. A unique list is being kept in memory that can be used in the next process entry in a process, for example in another workflow.
Fields Tab:
Name	Specify the name of the file related elements loaded in memory.
Element	Choose File element: File content/File size.
Type	Data type of element.
Format	Choose a field format.
Length	Specify the length of the element.
Precision	Specify the precision of the element.
Currency	Specify the currency symbol of the element.
Decimal	Specify the numeric decimal symbol of the element.
Group	Specify the numeric grouping symbol to use.
Trim type	Specify the type of trimming to use.
Repeat	Choose from Y/N. Select Y to repeat the column value of the previous row if the column value is empty (null).
Additional Output Fields Tab:
Short filename field	Specify a field name for short filename
Extension field	Specify a field name for filename extension.
Path field	Specify a field name for file path.
Is hidden field	Specify a Y/N. Y to hide field. Default is N.
Last modification field
Uri field	Specify a field name for Uri (e.g. file:///C:/temp/file.txt).
Root Uri field	Specify a field name for Root Uri (e.g. file:///C:/).