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, C:\files\*.log would match any change to a file in the files directory with an extension of .log.

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).