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• Workflow Name: A workflow is assigned to which an order is added per incoming file.
• Agent: An Agent is assigned that performs file watching. Standalone Agents and Agent Clusters can be assigned. In an Agent Cluster the active Director Agent performs file watching, Subagents do not perform file watching.
• Directory: The directory that the Agent watches for incoming files:
  • Unix: A path can be specified such as /tmp/incoming
  • Windows: A path can be specified with backslashes or forward slashes such as C:\tmp\incoming and or C:/tmp/incoming
  • Unix, Windows: OS environment variables can be used that are known to the Agent, for example from its Instance Start Script. Environment variables and constant strings can be concatenated using the ++ operator and considering quoting for constant strings like this:
    • Unix: env("'HOME"') ++ '/incoming'
    • Windows: env("'TMP"') ++ '/incoming'
• Pattern: The pattern to match an incoming file is not a wildcard expression such as *.csv, instead it represents a Java Regular Expression. The pattern has to match the path of an incoming file including the directory hierarchy, not just the file name. Consider the following examples:
  • match any files: .*
  • match files with a .csv extension: .*\.csv$
  • match files that end with a date in yyyy-mm-dd format: .*\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$
• Delay: The delay in seconds for which a file is checked to be stable and does not change its size or timestamp. This guarantees that only files are picked up that have been completely written.

Using Files in Workflows

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For incoming files the JS7 File Order Source provides a built-in variable $file file that holds the path to the incoming file.

This variable is declared with the workflow like this:

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If the file variable is the only variable in a workflow then its declaration can be omitted. 

The variable can be used in subsequent jobs, variable does not have to be declared but can be used for example to create an environment variable that is used from a job script:

• The below example assigns the environment variable FILE the the value of the built-in $file file variable.
• This configuration step is the same for jobs executed with Unix or Windows.
  
  

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Using File Names

The built-in $file file variable holds the full path of the incoming file, for example /tmp/incoming/test.txt.

Users who want to use a file base name such as test.txt instead of the full path can configure their workflow like this:

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• Two workflow variables are declared:
  • The built-in $file file variable is declared without a default value.
  • A new $filename filename variable is declared (an arbitrary name can be chosen for the variable).
    • The assigned value is a generic expression that extracts the file name from the incoming file's full path:
    • replaceAll( $file, '^.*[/\\]([^/\\]+)$', '$1' )
• The assignment of environment variables for a job can make use of both declared variables.
  
  

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