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Jun 13, 2007

I have a variable defined as "Country". Based on the value, the header row printed needs to be different.

I've already created a 'HeaderRow' variable that I'm able to set using a script task. But how can you set the Header text value at run time from the variable? There is no expression defined for the Header with the Flat File Destination object, and when I attempt to reference the HeaderRow variable as the Header text, the variable name is printed as the header.

Another approach I tried was to write the Header Row separately through another data flow task, but the issue here is: what is the input source when all you have is a Country variable?

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Sep 18, 2006

I'm unable to figure out how to write a column header to my flat file destination. My source is a OLE DB SQL query and I need the column names as a header row in my text file destination. This seems easy but the closet I can find is hardcoding the column header row in the header property. Is this the only option?

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Hi,

Here is my problem :
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But... the flat files name should be dynamic and assigned by a variable ...

Here's an example of my table :

Column header :
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2 TOTO 44
3 SAM 44
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if there's 50 different number, i expect 50 files

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Public Class ScriptMain
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[code]...

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http://www.webfound.net/flat_file_example.txt

e.g. an example output file based on above (cutting out the first section) would be:

http://www.webfound.net/flatfile_output.txt

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Hi,

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hi everyone!

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data row.....
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technically, i also need the date from the header row, but since it is also indicated in the data rows, i have no problem with that. what i need is the Store Code, which is not indicated on the data rows. i need to store the data in a database in the following format:

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10068800
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Code Block

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Code Block
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