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.

FTP Connection

No

Path to the shared configuration resource containing the user information such as host name, user name, and password. For more information, see FTP Connection .

Quit (post-command)

No

When checked, this field specifies that the FTP connection should be closed after completing this command.

If this field is not checked, the FTP connection remains open so that all FTP activities that specify the same FTP session (that is, the same host, port, username, and password) share the FTP session until the connection is closed.

Binary

Yes

Specifies whether to send the file content in binary or ASCII mode (checked signifies binary).

When ASCII mode is used, differences in line endings between the FTP server and the machine executing the FTP command are automatically handled. Also, ASCII mode implies text data, and that data can be encoded in a character encoding other than ASCII (such as UTF-8 or Latin-1).

Timeout (msec)

Yes

The amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) for the FTP server to respond. This timeout is used when the FTP server places the FTP connection used by this activity into a waiting state.

This overrides the value specified in the FTP Connection resource. For more information, see FTP Connection .

Overwrite Existing File

Yes

When this field is checked, any existing files on the FTP server are overwritten if the FTP command sends files with the same names.

If this field is unchecked, any attempt to send a file to the remote server with the same name as an existing file results in an exception.

Append

Yes

This field is only available when the Overwrite Existing File field is unchecked.

This field specifies whether to append data to an existing file. If the specified file exists on the FTP server, append the data to the file when this field is checked. If this field is not checked, the file is overwritten if it exists on the FTP server.

Use Process Data

Yes

Specifies to use process data as the content of the file to place on the remote server. If this field is checked, you can only place one file on the remote server.

Maintain 2.0 Compatibility

No

This field is present only for activities migrated from ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 2.0. If checked, this field ensures the output schema retains the elements available in ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 2.0.