Question

I want to be able to do the following:

• Import a flatfile row by row
• Do a conditional split on a column value of each row
• if i detect a valid value, i want to continue with this row
• if in any case i detect a value that is not possible i want to FAIL the component so the workflow stops and i get an error

Example: I have a file with three columns ( “type”, “value”, “message”)

I want to import that file row by row using the flatfile destination. Then i want to do the conditional split. If the “type” column has “1” as value, i want to write that row into my destinatoin. If the type is “2” or “3” i want to ignore them. However if its “A” or “0” i want to FAIL the component.

I have everything except the “FAIL” part. I configured the output for the last condition (“column is not 1,2 or 3”) as “Fail Component”, however it does not actually fail the component.

Answer 1

Add a script component to the data flow (as destination) and link it to your conditional split for the condition you want to force a package fail.

inside the script component add

    bool pbCancel = false;
    this.ComponentMetaData.FireError(100, "Script Component", "Data Error <type message here>", "", 0, out pbCancel);

The script component itself will succeed, but the data flow task will fail and should result in a package failure