Polling Settings

Item	Name	Description
A	Schedule Type	Determines how the polling schedule is set. This could be on a specific interval, a time of day, or a custom expression.
B	Next poll at	Given the current polling settings, shows the next date and time that the source connector will poll for new messages (assuming it is deployed). This value is updated once when you navigate to the Source tab, or when you update the schedule settings. It does not continue to update automatically.
C	Poll Once on Start	Select Yes to immediately poll once when the channel is started. All subsequent polling will follow the specified scheduling settings.
D	Schedule Settings	These are settings specific to the schedule type. This will be one of: Interval Schedule Settings Time Schedule Settings Cron Schedule Settings

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Interval Schedule Settings

Item Name Description A Value The number of units to wait in between polling windows. The value, when resolved with the unit type, must be less than 24 hours of time. B Unit The unit of time to use in conjunction with the value to determine how long to wait in between polling windows. Available units are: Milliseconds Seconds Minutes Hours C Advanced Enables configuring day-of-week / day-of-month settings and time ranges. Note: Only one polling window is ever active at any given time for a given source connector. For example, if you have a channel set to poll every 5 seconds, but a single message takes 6 seconds to process, a new polling job will not begin while the first one is still working. In this example the "effective" polling interval would be 10 seconds, because every other poll trigger gets skipped. Note: The interval does not "start counting down" from the time when the channel is deployed/started. Instead, it starts on a consistent schedule based on the start of the time ran

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Cron Schedule Settings

This schedule type gives you full control to enable advanced, nuanced polling schedules using Cron-like expressions. Select the Add / Delete buttons to add or remove entries from the table. The expressions must abide by the following format: Field Required? Allowed Values Special Characters Seconds Yes 0-59 , - * / Minutes Yes 0-59 , - * / Hours Yes 0-23 , - * / Day of Month Yes 1-31 , - * ? / L W Month Yes 1-12 or JAN-DEC , - * / Day of Week Yes 1-7 or SUN-SAT , - * ? / L # Year No 1970-2099 , - * / Special Characters * All values ? No specific range - Used to specify ranges , Used to specify list of values / Used to specify increments L Used to specify the "last of" W Used to specify the nearest weekday # Used to specify the Nth day of the month Example: The expression "0 */5 8-17 * * ?" means to poll every 5 minutes starting at 8 AM and ending at 5 PM every day. Note: Specifying both a day-of-week and day-of-month is not supported. A "?" character must be used in one of these fields

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File Reader

This source connector reads files from a local or remote directory on a specified interval/time schedule. Several protocols are supported, including regular local file mode, FTP, SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and Amazon S3. Files may be read in and converted to Base64, or converted to a message string using a specific character set encoding. After reading in files, the connector has options to either delete the original files, rename them, or move them to a separate directory. Additional options (like FTPS) are available with the SSL Manager extension. Supported property groups: Polling Settings Source Settings Item Name Default Value Description A Method file The basic method used to access files to be read in. Options include File (local filesystem or NFS / mapped share), FTP, SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, or Amazon S3. Once all necessary connection/directory information has been filled in before, use the Test Read button to attempt to actually connect and test the ability to read from the directory. B Ad

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JavaScript Reader

This source connector executes a custom user-defined JavaScript script on a specified schedule. This can be used in a wide variety of ways, such as calling out to external Java libraries or invoking a local OS shell script. You can return a message (or list of messages) to dispatch to the channel, or simply use the script as a scheduled job that doesn't necessarily produce messages. For example, you can use tools like ChannelUtil to programmatically start/stop/deploy channels from within the script. Supported property groups: Polling Settings Source Settings JavaScript Reader Return Values Parent topic: Source Connectors

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Advanced Settings

Item Name Description A Active Days: Weekly Select this option to only poll on the days of the week that are checked to the right. B Active Days: Monthly Select this option to only poll on the specified day of the month. C Active Time: All Day If selected, polling may occur at any time during the day. D Active Time: Range If selected, polling will only occur during the specified time range. Parent topic: Polling Settings

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Time Schedule Settings

Item Name Description A Time The specific time of day to poll. B Advanced Allows configuring day-of-week / day-of-month settings. For additional information, see Advanced Settings. Parent topic: Polling Settings

Polling Settings

Recommendations

Interval Schedule Settings

Cron Schedule Settings

File Reader

JavaScript Reader

Advanced Settings

Time Schedule Settings

Polling Settings

Interval Schedule Settings

Cron Schedule Settings

File Reader

JavaScript Reader

Advanced Settings

Time Schedule Settings