File exists

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Description

This steps verifies the existence of a file where the filename comes from previous steps.

The result is a boolean flag field that gets added to the input fields in the output.

Options	Description
Step name	Name of the step; This name has to be unique in a single transformation
Filename field	The input field that will contain the filename at runtime
Result fieldname	The name of the field that will contain the boolean flag.
Add filename to result	Enable this option if you want to add the filename to the list of filenames that can be used in the next job entry.
Include file type	Include the file type in a field.
File type field	The name of the field that will contain the file type as a String: "file", "folder", "imaginary"

samples/transformations/File exists - VFS example.ktr