Complete List Of Operations On FTP Task In SSIS

Introduction

This article provides complete information about  FTP Task operations and properties available in SSIS package.

Steps:

In this article we are going to see the different FTP task operations available. Before starting with the operations we will see on why are using the FTP Task operation. FTP task downloads and uploads some data file and manages servers on the remote server or even in the local server.

FTP Operations here means the list of operations the task supports in order to achieve some tasks like sending the file, receiving the file, looping through folder and selecting some files, looping through the folder and deleting some files, managing a directory etc.

Below table shows the list of operations available. 

Task Operation	Task Operation Description
Send Files	This operation is used to send some files to remote location
Receive files	This operation is used to download some files from remote location
Create local directory	This operation create a new folder on a local server
Create remote directory	This operation create a new folder on the remote server
Remove local directory	This operation delete a folder in the local server
Remove remote directory	This operation delete a folder on the remote server
Delete local files	This operation delete a file in the local server
Delete remote files	This operation delete a file on the remote server

Task Operation	Dynamic Properties
Send Files	LocalVariable, LocalPath RemoteVariable and RemotePath
Receive files	LocalVariable, LocalPath RemoteVariable and RemotePath
Create local directory	LocalVariable and LocalPath
Create remote directory	RemoteVariable and RemotelPath
Remove local directory	LocalVariable and LocalPath
Remove remote directory	RemoteVariable and RemotePath
Delete local files	LocalVariable and LocalPath
Delete remote files	RemoteVariable and RemotePath

S0 based on these task operations we need to select the best which suits our requirement and make use of it based on the configuration. The dynamic operation properties available for each of these task operations are as follows