2020.2

To navigate quickly to the Workflow working folders, press the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+ALT+Shift+F4 from within the Workflow configuration tool.
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Backup filename: Enter the file name that you wish the input data file backup to be saved
under.
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Delete Existing Metadata: Check to remove any Metadata from memory. This option is
disabled on initial input tasks, and is checked by default on secondary input tasks.
Job Information definitions
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%1- Folder: Contains the full path of the base folder from which the files are listed.
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
FTP Input
FTP Input tasks retrieve files from FTP sites using the FTP protocol. Masks are typically used
to select multiple files to be retrieved from the server.
Input
FTP Input connects to the specified FTP server and path, and retrieves all files corresponding
to the specified mask. These files may be of any format, even formats that are not readable by
PlanetPress Workflow.
Processing
Each file capture by the input is sent down through the process, one at a time. When the file is
finished, the process goes back to the input which feeds another file down, as long as there are
files in the queue. Once all the files are gone, the task polls the FTP folder again to see if new
files are present and, if so, the process continues with these files. Otherwise, the process ends.
Output
The output to this task is a series of individual files, one after the other. These files are not
modified in any way from when they are captured from the source FTP server.
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