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folder.
To navigate quickly to the Workflow working folders, press the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+ALT+Shift+F4 from within the Workflow configuration tool.
The number of days to keep backups of jobs processed by input tasks is set per process; see
"Process properties" on page724.
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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 Pro-
cess 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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