This is part 27 of the series of article on SSIS. In this article we are going to learn how to delete local folder using FTP task in SSIS.

Introduction

In this article we are going to see on how to use a FTP task in SSIS package to delete a local folder using FTP Task in SSIS packaging.

You can look into my series of article on SSIS at the url – https://f5debug.net/tutorial/ssis.php

Steps:

Follow steps 1 to 3 on my first article to open the BIDS project and select the right project to work on integration services project. Once the project is created, we will see on how to use FTP task container. Drag and drop the FTP task as shown in the below screen.

Now double click on the task to open the property window and set the properties as shown in the below screen.

The above image is for setting the FTP Connection, end user need to provide the correct connection settings and click on the Test Connection to confirm if the connection is valid.

Now in the file transfer tab we need to set the property since in our example we are going to delete a folder in the local box we need to set as below. Here input variable is used to get the path where we need to delete the folders locally.

Here once you have given valid credentials by running directly the package will do the necessary steps of deleting the folder in the local box using the FTP Task.

Conclusion

So in this article we have seen on how to delete the folder in the local machine.