File Monitor Question

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Jodeen Guisti

• April 08, 2020 19:21

In a file monitor job, can you wildcard part of the path?  I'm trying to monitor when a file is dropped in:

Infogix_Assure_Common/data/report...

but the files reside in folders in this path, based on control entity name.  

ex. Infogix_Assure_Common/data/report/control entity name/report_I_want.rpt

Since I don't care what control entity name and just want all reports, is there a way to just look for anything dropped in:

Infogix_Assure_Common/data/report/*

I can't seem to get a wildcard to work.

Thanks for the help.

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  Ryan Klaproth

  • April 10, 2020 18:08

  Wild card characters in the file path are not supported by Assure, and unfortunately, a File Monitor also doesn't check sub-directories of the target directory for files. If you'd like, we can create an enhancement request for this functionality to be included in a future release.

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  Brian Butters

  • May 15, 2020 18:55

  Ryan and Jodeen:

  It is true that the base directory specification for a file monitor source cannot have wildcard characters - it must reference a full starting directory. However, the file monitor source CAN process subdirectories via the include and exclude filters. Taking Jodeen's example of Infogix_Assure_Common/data/report/*, this could be set to search sub folders as follows:

  Base directory: Infogix_Assure_Common/data/report

  Includes Filter: **/*.txt

  Excludes Filter **/notthese/*

  The above would search all subfolders of the base directory for .txt files (including the base directory itself), excluding the files in any subfolder called "notthese"

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