The File Access activity node

The File Access node allows for reading and writing data to a file and can use the error connector. The File Access also has an append option, which has been optimized to use an in-built message builder. Flow developers do not need to explicitly store the data in memory using a message builder or Assign node before appending it to the file. The recommended approach, following this optimization, is to use the File Access append inside the loop for building the file.

Note: In a multi-tenant environment, any local file access is done using the database. If you write to a local file, it will write the file in the database using the file name as the key to the data. The same applies when reading from a file. When you read a file, it reads the content from the database using the file name as the key.

For details on using the error connector, see Configuring error handling and the error connector in Infor Process Designer.