File exists not working if file name is defined within a data item

[JanetPannone]

Using VBO Utility - File Management File Exists to check if the file exists with the input  File Name value set to a data item with an initial value of the full path to the file returns false.   

If I change the value to be the full path the file is found.

Is this a know problem?

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Janet Pannone
Programmer
DXC
America/New_York
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[david.l.morris · Accepted solution]

Can you verify what is in the data item [fileNm]? There should be no difference between passing it in a data item and passing it as a string literal in the input.

Data Item Value should be like this with no quotes: C:\Users\default\Documents\PerformanceTimings.xlsx

If you put it in the input directly then it looks like this: "C:\Users\default\Documents\PerformanceTimings.xlsx"

And if you use the Data Item instead then like this, just as you have: [fileNm]

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Dave Morris
3Ci @ Southern Company
Atlanta, GA
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[JanetPannone]

Thank you.   I had quotes on the data item.   Works perfectly now that they have been removed.

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Janet Pannone
Programmer
DXC
America/New_York
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