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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 24.2
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SFTP Smart Services

Overview

Contains multiple Smart Services for interacting with a remote file server via SFTP, FTP, or SCP.  Using these services, an Appian application can be configured to send and receive files, folders, and metadata in a process.  Features support for zlib compression.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services included:

  • SFTP:
    • Remove Directory Over SFTP (Basic Credentials)
    • Send File Over SFTP
    • Send File Over SFTP (Basic Credentials)
    • Receive File Over SFTP
    • Receive File Over SFTP (Basic Credentials)
    • Rename File Over SFTP
    • Get Remote Directory Contents Over SFTP
    • Get Remote Directory Contents Over SFTP (Basic Credentials)
    • Create Directory Over SFTP
    • Create Directory Over SFTP (Basic Credentials)
  • SCP:
    • Send File Over SCP
    • Receive File Over SCP
  • FTP:
    • Send File Over FTP
    • Receive File Over FTP
    • Receive Folder Over FTP
  • FTPS
    • Receive Folder Over FTPS
    • Send File Over FTPS (Basic Credentials)

All smart services in the package use Secure Credentials Store.

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  • Hi Team

    We notice that the SFTP single file download appears to have some issues when downloading small files, we are using v2.0.0

    When downloading files (using 'receive File Over SFTP') it seems that the file size is set to 0 for some reason.
    In Appian, it shows as '<1kb' but the contents are still there (checked by downloading the file and opening outside of appian)

    With some trial & error I found out that this happens for files below ~10kb size. (CSV files in our case)

    In our setup, this impacts the process, because this file needs to be uploaded to a sharepoint, and that Smart Service depends on the filesize metadata, rendering the uploaded file corrupt.

    Please let me know if you need more information reproducing this issue.

  • in reply to jvandenbranden

    Hi ,

    We tested the 'Receive File Over SFTP' with the file (CSV) less than 10 KB size. We can see the exact size of the file(metadata) is updated in the Appian. Also, the file size is updating without any issues while we tested it will the file size greater than 5 MB. Please provide the snapshot of the issue and sample file for testing.
    Please find the attachment while we tried to reproduce the issue.
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  • in reply to jvandenbranden

    Hi ,

    We tested the 'Receive File Over SFTP' with the file (CSV) less than 10 KB size. We can see the exact size of the file(metadata) is updated in the Appian. Also, the file size is updating without any issues while we tested it will the file size greater than 5 MB. Please provide the snapshot of the issue and sample file for testing.
    Please find the attachment while we tried to reproduce the issue.
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