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Directory Monitoring
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JobScheduler can monitor file creation with a (standalone) job and with an order (and a job chain). |
For further information on how to use file watching with a job chain we recommend reading Directory Monitoring with File Orders.
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This job will monitor the folder c:/temp on a Windows® operating system. The regular expression is used to define which file(s) JobScheduler has to watch. In this example the regular expression means that every event involving on a directory change (deleting, renaming, adding any file) the job will be startet when the files file1.xml and/or file2.xml will fire the execution of the embedded script (which in this case will echo values for JobScheduler environment variables to stdout).For each new file in the folder c:/temp which is matched by the filter ^file1\.xml$ starts a task for the job. is in content of the directory.
The SCHEDULER_TASK_TRIGGER_FILES environment variable contains the names of all the filtered files in the c:/temp folder that matches the regular expression at the time when the task directory was started changed- it doesn't just does contain the name of the file that triggered the embedded script only in the case the file matches the regular expression. The file names are maintained in a semicolon separated list.
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For further information on how to use file watching with a job chain we recommend reading Directory Monitoring with File Orders.
See also
- Environment variable (JobScheduler Reference handbook)
- Directory Monitoring (JobScheduler Reference handbook)