Any Error In A Data Flow Task Makes My Package Stop

Hi, this is my first post and I'm relatively new to SSIS so please go easy on me.

Without going into too much detail about it, I've set up a simple SSIS package which does this in a nutshell:

Foreach loop picks up all *.xls files in a given folder
1 - Puts the name of the current spreadsheet into a variable
2 - File System Task copies the current spreadsheet ("abc.xls") to a file called "work.xls"
3 - Data Flow task performs data extraction on "work.xls" and puts it into a SQL server database
4 - File System Task moves "abc.xls" into a "success" folder
Continues with loop - move onto next spreadsheet

This works fine, so long as the spreadsheets all have the same number of columns.

As soon as one of them has a column missing (believe me, this will happen - we're dealing with users here) the package falls over at step 3.

When the package comes across an erroneous spreadsheet, what I'd like to do is move the offending file to a failure folder (making step 4 either a success or failure file move) and carry on with the next one.

I know that you can have an error path (the red line) from any step within the dataflow task, but this doesn't help me because the error lies in the structure of the spreadsheet and not the contents.


I've already come up with a work around whereby each file is moved into the failures folder just after step 2, then moved from the failures folder into the success folder at step 4.

This almost gives me what I want, although of course the package still falls over whenever it encounters a dodgy looking spreadsheet.

Is there any way that I can get the package to do what I'm after?



Many thanks,



Simon