Configuration
The Configuration tab has the following fields.
Field |
Global Var? |
Description |
Name |
No |
The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition. |
Description |
No |
Short description of the activity. |
File Name |
Yes |
The path and name of the file or directory to monitor. Use the Browse button to locate an existing file. You can also use wildcards to monitor a directory for files that match the given specification. For example, |
Polling Interval (sec) |
Yes |
Polling interval (in seconds) to check for the specified file. |
Include Existing Files |
No |
Check for the file among the files that existed before the process engine started running. When this field is checked, if an existing file matches the specification in the File Name field when a process engine starts, then a new process instance is created. If this field is not checked, any existing files that match the specification in the File Name field are ignored until there is a change in the file. |
Exclude File Content |
No |
Specifies not to load the data from the file into this activity’s output. If this check box is selected, the contents of the file are not available to subsequent activities in the process definition. |
Content as |
Yes |
The type of content in the file. Can be either text or binary. |
Encoding |
Yes |
The character encoding for the file (when text is specified in the Content as field). |