Set up a "watched" folder....possible?

I'm wondering if there's a way to set up a "watched folder" for media? Such a folder would automatically update my iTunes account with whatever readable files that were added - automatically - transparently.
example -
iTunes/TV Shows >watches> External HDD/MyTVrecordings
The thing is - Elgato EyeTV3 software can record TV shows and even export them into AppleTV format - but then they have to be physically added - one by one - over into iTunes.
I have the same situation with an external HDD movie folder - ExternalHDD/h.264MovieFiles
Every time I add something new to it - I have to manually ADD it to iTunes to be able to access it with AppleTV and/or iOS devices.
Hoping I'm just missing something somewhere and that this function already exists.
(FWIW - For video - I always use - DESELECT/Copy files to iTunes Media Library so I'm not having storage redundancy.)
Thanks!

I know this is kind of a dead thread now - but if you are on windows you just need to create a junction point to your music folder e.g.:
(Windows Vista\7\8)
In C:\Users\[username]\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes, you just have to make a junction point to let's say a music folder on a external drive (e:\music):
* Start a command prompt
* change directory to the iTunes Watch folder
* write: mklink /J Music E:\Music
This way itunes sees my junction point as a regular folder where all my music is in. Scans it and imports it
Be aware if you already have imported your files you will be left with dublicates.
/Michael

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Auto Import - Is only ONE watch folder allowed across several catalogs?

I am looking to confrim that Lightroom v4.4 only allows for one watch folder to be set up under File>Auto Import and therefore I cannot set up a differnet watch folder for each of my multiple catalogs.
I represent several artists and need to manage their image database separately and thought I would be able to auto import from a folder they drop images to; But now I realize Lightroom may only allow one watch folder overall because when I open a catalog I notice the watch folder is set to what I selected when the previous catalog was being used.
Is their a way to have each catalog watching a folder unique to it or is only one watch folder possible?
Thanks in advance for the answer and any solutions.

Yes - watched folder is handled as Lightroom preference, not catalog preference...
For greater flexibility you'll need a plugin. Consider:
* jf Folder Watch
* rc Ottomanic Importer
Rob

ARGH!!! Distiller 8 refuses to see Watch Folder!?!

Okay, this whole Acrobat 8 hoo-har is driving me nutso! I have to finally admit defeat and ask for help...
We've been running Mac OS Acrobat 4 through OS X Acrobat 7 with virtually no problems whatsoever for years. And now the second we switch over to Intel Macs and Acrobat 8, we have nothing but one problem after the next...
Since all I've experienced are Distiller ioerror issues (myself and other people on this forum) with Intel Macs and Leopard, I decided to throw in the towel and downgrade back to Tiger for our production stations and attempt to create a valid workflow with CS3 and Tiger, since there seems to be far too many unresolved issues with Distiller 8 and Leopard.
Now I'm no dunderhead when it comes to setting up Distiller workflows, I've been doing this for years for our newspaper and others in our group. But every single time I set up a watch folder in Distiller 8 or the 8.1.2 update, the resulting .ps file is passed from the Inbox straight to the Outbox without an error and without a PDF being produced.
Here's the log file entry:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Distilling: 63011115.AD.ps
Start Time: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Source: /Users/craigwright/Desktop/PDF FILES TO LONDON/In/63011115.AD.ps
Destination: /Users/craigwright/Desktop/PDF FILES TO LONDON/Out/63011115.AD.pdf
Adobe PDF Settings: /Users/craigwright/Desktop/PDF FILES TO LONDON/folder.joboptions
Distill Time: 7 seconds (00:00:07)
**** End of Job ****
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It's the weirdest thing. You can see the output file in the listing above, but there's never a PDF produced.
Dragging the .ps file onto the Distiller window itself produces a perfect PDF, but Watch Folder workflow is completely broken.
Here's an example log from a postscript file dragged onto the Distiller window:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Distilling: 63011115.AD.ps
Start Time: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Source: /Users/craigwright/Desktop/63011115.AD.ps
Destination: /Users/craigwright/Desktop/63011115.AD.pdf
Adobe PDF Settings: /Users/craigwright/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/London Free Press.joboptions
Processing prologue.ps...
Done processing prologue.ps.
Processing epilogue.ps...
Done processing epilogue.ps.
Distill Time: 18 seconds (00:00:18)
**** End of Job ****
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
...you'll notice that the file dragged onto the Distiller window had its prologue.ps and epilogue.ps files processed. This was not processed by the Watch Folder method. And YES, I did check the settings file under the Watch Folder options and they ARE set to process the file's prologue and epilogue.
The settings for the "folder.joboptions" and "LONDON FREE PRESS.joboptions" files are absolutely identical.
Now, I can remove the folder from the Watch Folder queue, destroy the folder on the desktop and create a new one, adding it to the Watch Folder list in Distiller every time, and it does the same thing every time.
I've tried re-installing CS3, I've tried fixing permissions, I've tried updating and downgrading Acrobat and Distiller to and from the latest fixes. I've tried font cache rebuilds (I know it's not related, but I'm clutching at straws here). Nothing works.
Does anyone have any clues?

Hi Jon...
Thanks for your help, but...
I checked the privileges on the files I'm generating. All of the .ps files I'm creating from QXP 7.3 are read-write.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by getting users to log into the server as the server name. We're using Distiller on a per-client machine basis, not a server scenario with users sending files to a remote station for processing. The client stations use an ad tracking application to pull ad content from our server farm to their station, they work on the ad and create a PDF by sending a postscript file to a watch folder on the desktop. Each station has its own copy of Acrobat 8 Pro.
Once the PDF is produced, they send the ad back to the storage server.
I've also checked the drive, fixed permissions, and even destroyed the plist files, forcing Distiller to recreate them from scratch.
I've created a new watch folder, added the current Distiller settings file to it - nothing.
I've destroyed the watch folder and its attached settings, created a new folder to watch with a different naming convention, and added a new Distiller setting set to it manually. Nothing.
I've tried erasing the drive, installing Tiger from scratch, installing the latest builds of CS3, QXP and Suitcase, creating a new folder, adding a new watch queue with the parameters I need. Same thing happens.
I've tried Diskwarrior, Onyx and AppleJack permission/directory fixes. Nothing has been found and nothing was fixed.
I've also tried different font configurations, in case there was some underlying corruption.
All ads we send to the Distiller inbox have all of their fonts verified as good by FontDoctor. I've even created a dummy ad with a few coloured boxes and no fonts to see if that will distill. Nothing.
In every occurrence, Distiller processes the .ps file's epilogue and prologue, passes the .ps file to the outbox and creates no PDF.
If I drag the postscript files from whatever location I place them into the Distiller window, they process and render perfectly.
I have configured two machines and both of them do the exact same thing.
Both machines are brand new Intel dual-core PowerMacs with 2GB RAM. All machines have brand new Tiger installs and run the latest builds of CS3, along with Quark Xpress 7.3. Both machines used to run Leopard, but since all we saw was Distiller 8 ioerrors running CS3 under that OS we downgraded in favour of Tiger, hoping the bugs would go away.
This is truly awful. We can't use these machines the way we want and I have no idea what to do next... And I'm CERTAINLY not going to start creating custom scripts to make Distiller work the way it should out of the gate...
Has anyone heard of this problem at all?
Jon: Do you think I should be calling Adobe technical support about this?

Print PDFs using watched folder

Hi,
I am new to Adobe livecycle. I created webservice which generates PDFs in a folder. I want to set that folder as a watch folder and want to print PDFs generated in specific interval. Basically it should figure out if there are any new PDFs and print it to the network printer. I could able to figure out how to set up a watch folder using existing services as a endpoint for watch folder, but none of the exixting services serves exact purpose of printing PDFs from folder. So I am stuck. How should I proceed? Can I create my own process and register it and use it as a end point for watched folder? If yes then how?
Can somebody help me?
Thanks!

Everything is a service in LiveCycle so, yes, generatePrintOuput is a service.
You can create a new process with Workbench (e.g. TestPrint). Then add the generatePrintedOutput step and a print step (from the Output category). Then save and activate your new process. This will become a new service (TestPrint) which you can add an watchfolder endpoint to.
Then drop the file in the watch folder for that new service (TestPrint) and the service will call generatePrintedOutput and print.
Jasmin

Can Watch Folder watch for After Effects project files?

I set up a watch folder in Media Encoder but it only appears to pick up or watch for video and audio files. is there a way to set it to watch for After Effects project folders?

No, just media files (movie files).

Watched folder issue with Distiller 9.0 and the Network

We found that the Distiller watched folders "In" and "Out" creates automatically to some other folders on the network. This is happened only when missing folders occurs in Distiller when network disconnects.
We just wanted to know how to avoid of creating "In" and "Out" folder automatically when setting up watched folder in Distiller. We have to create the same folders manually in the watched folders assigned directory.
I need to disable the option "In" and "Out" created automatically through watched folder to the assigned folder.
For e.g. if I assigned the watched folders to the particular directory on the network, the distiller should not create these two folders automatically, I have to create the same folders ("In" and "Out") on the particular directory before assigning the watched folder.
Is this work well? Please help me out to solve this issue.

Questions for Michael:
If as the OP says; They have no issue doing so with PC versions of Acrobat why would there be a Licensing Issue on the Mac Version?
So long as each has their own copy of Distiller /Acrobat.
Also, Why is there not site licenses or seat licenses for Acrobat?
(Other products such as MS Office has such for all their products, and other companies do as well, Even Adobe has such for other products)
For the OP:
What type Network do you use? each of the Macs should most likely be setup to use the same Network as the PC if possibly.
Is it possibly to link to the hot folder on the PC side (since once created from PC it doesn't disappear). As I understand it only in OSX.5.8 and X.6 support for PC networks are the most reliable.

Find and replace with multiple files and with a watch folder

I am trying to create a watch folder that uses red_menace script to:
1. Have a folder that receives multiple xml files that run the script one by one.
2. then move the files to an output folder.
I tried modifying the set TheFIle to choose file -- the original text file to:
with multiple selections allowed
But that doesn't seem to work. I know i'm missing a step. Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks!
The way i'd like to setup things is having an input folder on the desktop (or just have the application on the desktop and I can drag the files onto it), and let it do it's thing. Once it's done have it export the xml files into an output folder.
Here's what i got so far:
on open
set TheFIle to choose file -- the original text file
set TheFolder to ("Macintosh HD:Users:user1:Desktop:out") -- the folder for the output file
set TheName to (GetUniqueName for TheFIle from TheFolder) -- the name for the output file
set TheText to read TheFIle -- get the text to edit
set Originals to {"KPCALDATE", "KPCALEVENT", "KPCALDAY", "KPCALBODY", "obituaries name", "" & return & "</cstyle></pstyle>" & return & "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle>", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle name=\"Graphics Bold leadin\" font=\"ADV AGBook-Medium 2\">", "<pstyle name=\"Recipe Ingredients\"><cstyle>", " .com", " .net", " .org", " .edu", "www .", "www. ", "Ho- nolulu", "<pstyle name=\"kicker 12\"><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">fashion news</cstyle><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">" & return & "</cstyle></pstyle>" & return & "", "<component name=\"Headline 1\" type=\"Headline\">" & return & "<header>" & return & "<field name=\"Component name\" type=\"string\" value=\"Headline 1\"/>" & return & "<field name=\"Component type\" type=\"popup\" value=\"Headline\"/>" & return & "</header>" & return & "<body>" & return & "<pstyle name=\"hed STANDARD 36\"><cstyle>", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle name=\"Graphics Bold leadin\">", "<pstyle name=\"tagline\"><cstyle>-", "-", "
Per serving:", "<pstyle name=\"Titlebar - mini, red\"><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">NATION & World </cstyle><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">Report</cstyle><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">" & return & "</cstyle></pstyle>" & return & "", "</cstyle></pstyle>"} -- the terms that can be replaced
set Replacements to {"subhed", "subhed", "subhed", "Normal", "obituaries text", ", ", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle name=\"Graphics Bold leadin\" font=\"ADV AGBook-Medium 2\">", "<pstyle name=\"Recipe Ingredients\"><cstyle>
", ".com", ".net", ".org", ".edu", "www.", "www.", "Honolulu", "", "<component name=\"Headline1\" type=\"Headline\">" & return & "<header>" & return & "<field name=\"Component name\" type=\"string\" value=\"Headline1\"/>" & return & "<field name=\"Component type\" type=\"popup\" value=\"Headline\"/>" & return & "</header>" & return & "<body>" & return & "<pstyle name=\"hed STANDARD 27\"><cstyle>", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle allcaps=\"1\">", "<pstyle name=\"obituaries text\"><cstyle name=\"Graphics Bold leadin\">", "<pstyle name=\"tagline\"><cstyle>", " ", "
Per serving:", "","" & return & "</cstyle></pstyle>"} -- the replacement terms
repeat with AnItem from 1 to count Originals
set TheText to (replaceText of TheText from (item AnItem of Originals) to (item AnItem of Replacements))
end repeat
try -- write a new output file
tell application "Finder" to make new file at TheFolder with properties {name:TheName}
set OpenFile to open for access (result as alias) with write permission
write TheText to OpenFile starting at eof
close access OpenFile
on error errmess
try
log errmess
close access OpenFile
end try
end try
end open
to GetUniqueName for SomeFile from SomeFolder
check if SomeFile exists in SomeFolder, creating a new unique name if needed
parameters - SomeFile [mixed]: a source file path
SomeFolder [mixed]: a folder to check
returns [text]: a unique file name and extension
set {Counter, Divider} to {"00", "_"}
-- get the name and extension
set {name:TheName, name extension:TheExtension} to info for file (SomeFile as text)
if TheExtension is missing value then set TheExtension to ""
set TheName to text 1 thru -((count TheExtension) + 2) of TheName
set NewName to TheName & "." & TheExtension
tell application "System Events" to tell (get name of files of folder (SomeFolder as text))
repeat while it contains NewName
set Counter to text 2 thru -1 of ((100 + Counter + 1) as text) -- leading zero
set NewName to TheName & Divider & Counter & "." & TheExtension
end repeat
end tell
return NewName
end GetUniqueName
to EditItems of SomeItems given Title:TheTitle, Prompt:ThePrompt
displays a dialog for multiple item edit (note that a return is used between each edit item)
for each of the items in SomeItems, a line containing it's text is placed in the edit box
the number of items returned are padded or truncated to match the number of items in SomeItems
parameters - SomeItems [list]: a list of text items to edit
TheTitle [boolean/text]: use a default or the given dialog title
ThePrompt [boolean/text]: use a default or the given prompt text
returns [list]: a list of the edited items, or {} if error
set {TheItems, TheInput, TheCount} to {{}, {}, (count SomeItems)}
if TheCount is less than 1 then return {} -- error
if ThePrompt is in {true, false} then -- "with" or "without" Prompt
if ThePrompt then
set ThePrompt to "Edit the following items:" & return -- default
else
set ThePrompt to ""
end if
else -- fix up the given prompt a little
set ThePrompt to ThePrompt & return
end if
if TheTitle is in {true, false} then if TheTitle then -- "with" or "without" Title
set TheTitle to "Multiple Edit Dialog" -- default
else
set TheTitle to ""
end if
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {SomeItems, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {SomeItems as text, TempTID}
set TheInput to paragraphs of text returned of (display dialog ThePrompt with title TheTitle default answer SomeItems)
repeat with AnItem from 1 to TheCount -- pad/truncate entered items
try
set the end of TheItems to (item AnItem of TheInput)
on error
set the end of TheItems to ""
end try
end repeat
return TheItems
end EditItems
to replaceText of SomeText from OldItem to NewItem
replace all occurances of OldItem with NewItem
parameters - SomeText [text]: the text containing the item(s) to change
OldItem [text]: the item to be replaced
NewItem [text]: the item to replace with
returns [text]: the text with the item(s) replaced
set SomeText to SomeText as Unicode text -- TID's are case insensitive with Unicode text
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, OldItem}
set {ItemList, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {text items of SomeText, NewItem}
set {SomeText, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {ItemList as text, TempTID}
return SomeText
end replaceText
Message was edited by: gamebreakers

When you use the open or adding folder items to handlers, you need to add the parameters for the file items passed to them.
I'll go ahead and post the applet/droplet version of my original script from the previous topic for reference:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFEE80;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
-- search and replace multiple items applet/droplet/folder action
-- the terms to replace - edit as needed
property EditableItems : {¬
"one", ¬
"two", ¬
"three", ¬
"four", ¬
"five", ¬
"six", ¬
"seven", ¬
"eight", ¬
"nine", ¬
"ten", ¬
"eleven", ¬
"twelve", ¬
"thirteen", ¬
"fourteen", ¬
"fifteen", ¬
"sixteen", ¬
"seventeen", ¬
"eighteen", ¬
"nineteen", ¬
"twenty"}
-- the folder for the output file(s) - change as needed
property TheFolder : (path to desktop)
property LastEditItems : EditableItems
on run
the applet/droplet was double-clicked
open (choose file with multiple selections allowed)
end run
on open TheItems
items were dropped onto the applet/droplet
parameters - TheItems [list]: a list of the items (aliases) dropped
returns nothing
repeat with AnItem in TheItems
ReplaceMultipleItems from AnItem
end repeat
end open
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
folder action - items were added to a folder
parameters - this_folder [alias]: the folder added to
these_items [list]: a list if items (aliases) added
returns nothing
repeat with AnItem in these_items
ReplaceMultipleItems from AnItem
end repeat
end adding folder items to
to ReplaceMultipleItems from SomeFile
replace multiple text items in SomeFile
parameters - SomeFile [alias]: the file to replace items in
returns nothing
set TheName to (GetUniqueName for SomeFile from TheFolder) -- the name for the output file
set TheText to read SomeFile -- get the text to edit
set Originals to (choose from list EditableItems default items LastEditItems with prompt "Select the terms to replace:" with multiple selections allowed) -- the specific terms to replace
set LastEditItems to Originals
set Replacements to (EditItems of Originals with Title given Prompt:"Edit the following replacement terms:") -- the replacement terms
repeat with AnItem from 1 to count Originals
set TheText to (ReplaceText of TheText from (item AnItem of Originals) to (item AnItem of Replacements))
end repeat
try -- write a new output file
tell application "Finder" to make new file at TheFolder with properties {name:TheName}
set OpenFile to open for access (result as alias) with write permission
write TheText to OpenFile starting at eof
close access OpenFile
on error errmess
try
log errmess
close access OpenFile
end try
end try
end ReplaceMultipleItems
to GetUniqueName for SomeFile from SomeFolder
check if SomeFile exists in SomeFolder, creating a new unique name if needed
parameters - SomeFile [mixed]: a source file path
SomeFolder [mixed]: a folder to check
returns [text]: a unique file name and extension
set {Counter, Divider} to {"00", "_"}
-- get the name and extension
set {name:TheName, name extension:TheExtension} to info for file (SomeFile as text)
if TheExtension is in {missing value, ""} then
set TheExtension to ""
else
set TheExtension to "." & TheExtension
end if
set {NewName, TheExtension} to {TheName, (ChangeCase of TheExtension to "upper")}
set TheName to text 1 thru -((count TheExtension) + 1) of TheName
tell application "System Events" to tell (get name of files of folder (SomeFolder as text))
repeat while it contains NewName
set Counter to text 2 thru -1 of ((100 + Counter + 1) as text) -- leading zero
set NewName to TheName & Divider & Counter & TheExtension
end repeat
end tell
return NewName
end GetUniqueName
to EditItems of SomeItems given Title:TheTitle, Prompt:ThePrompt
displays a dialog for multiple item edit (note that a return is used between each edit item)
for each of the items in SomeItems, a line containing it's text is placed in the edit box
the number of items returned are padded or truncated to match the number of items in SomeItems
parameters - SomeItems [list]: a list of text items to edit
TheTitle [boolean/text]: use a default or the given dialog title
ThePrompt [boolean/text]: use a default or the given prompt text
returns [list]: a list of the edited items, or {} if error
set {TheItems, TheInput, TheCount} to {{}, {}, (count SomeItems)}
if TheCount is less than 1 then return {} -- error
if ThePrompt is in {true, false} then -- "with" or "without" Prompt
if ThePrompt then
set ThePrompt to "Edit the following items:" & return -- default
else
set ThePrompt to ""
end if
else -- fix up the given prompt a little
set ThePrompt to ThePrompt & return
end if
if TheTitle is in {true, false} then if TheTitle then -- "with" or "without" Title
set TheTitle to "Multiple Edit Dialog" -- default
else
set TheTitle to ""
end if
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {SomeItems, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {SomeItems as text, TempTID}
set TheInput to paragraphs of text returned of (display dialog ThePrompt with title TheTitle default answer SomeItems)
repeat with AnItem from 1 to TheCount -- pad/truncate entered items
try
set the end of TheItems to (item AnItem of TheInput)
on error
set the end of TheItems to ""
end try
end repeat
return TheItems
end EditItems
to ReplaceText of SomeText from OldItem to NewItem
replace all occurances of OldItem with NewItem
parameters - SomeText [text]: the text containing the item(s) to change
OldItem [text]: the item to be replaced
NewItem [text]: the item to replace with
returns [text]: the text with the item(s) replaced
set SomeText to SomeText as text
if SomeText contains OldItem then
set {TempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, OldItem}
try
set {ItemList, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {text items of SomeText, NewItem}
set {SomeText, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {ItemList as text, TempTID}
on error ErrorMessage number ErrorNumber -- oops
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID
error ErrorMessage number ErrorNumber
end try
end if
return SomeText
end ReplaceText
to ChangeCase of SomeText to CaseType
changes the case or capitalization of SomeText to the specified CaseType using Python
parameters - SomeText [text]: the text to change
CaseType [text]: the type of case desired:
"upper" = all uppercase text
"lower" = all lowercase text
"title" = uppercase character at start of each word, otherwise lowercase
"capitalize" = capitalize the first character of the text, otherwise lowercase
returns [text]: the changed text
set SomeText to SomeText as text
if CaseType is not in {"upper", "lower", "title", "capitalize"} then return SomeText
return (do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c \"import sys; print unicode(sys.argv[1], 'utf8')." & CaseType & "().encode('utf8')\" " & quoted form of SomeText)
end ChangeCase
</pre>
Edit: how does the choose from list dialog handle those big strings? I'm guessing not very well - is that why you avoided using them?
Message was edited by: red_menace

Any Tutorial / Sample to create Single PDF from multiple source files using PDF assembler in a watched folder process.

Any Tutorial / Sample to create Single PDF from multiple source files using PDF assembler in a watched folder process. I have a client application which will prepare number of source files and some meta data information (in .XML) which will be used in header/footer. Is it possible to put a run time generated DDX file in the watch folder and use it in Process. If possible how can I pass the file names in the DDX. Any sample Process will be very helpful.

If possible, make use of Assembler API in your client application instead of doing this using watched folder. Here are the Assembler samples : LiveCycle ES2.5 * Programming with LiveCycle ES2.5
Watched folder can accept zip files (sample : Configuring a watched folder to handle multiple input files and write results to a single folder | Adobe LiveCycle Blog ). You can also use execute script to create the DDX at runtime : LiveCycle ES2 * Application Development Using LiveCycle Workbench ES2
Thanks
Wasil

Get filename from Watched folder start point

I have a watched folder as a start point and I can use the
symbols %F and %E in order to save the output documents in the Result folder.
This is easy.
What I cannot do, is getting in a string variable the same filename in order to use it within the Process:
Is it possible?
I would like to exploit this filename to discriminate the activities that the file have to make...
Thanks you as usual!

thank you Jasmin, your answer is correct and now it works!
only I don't understand why my way didn't work...
Instead of a setValue, I used directly a INSERT SQL activity with getDocAttribute(/process_data/@docXML, "basename") as parameter: as is, it didn't work!
As you suggest, if I put a setValue between the Watched folder startpoint and the INSERT SQL activity (now with the populated string as parameter), it works...
Bah!
Thank you again!
Fabio

Problem with Watched Folder endpoint

Hi,
We have a problem with a watched folder endpoint. The watched folder is set in a directory in a linux server. The directory then is mapped to a windows directory where files arrive from time to time. Everything works fine until the watched folder service stops for no particular reason. After that we need to restart the service from the admin UI console.
I found in another post something related to the MySql database losing connection with livecycle after some inactivity, but I'm not sure if this is our case or even how to solve the problem.
Here's what we found in the log
2010-11-11 17:10:31,890 INFO [com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.service.file.write.impl.FileResultHandlerImpl] FileResultHandlerImpl ----- preserved- source ----/data/livecycle/lc_wrk/edi/stage/Wx130df02e731a9c7b14738905/C0158_208.dat--- to ---/data/livecycle/lc_wrk/edi/preserve/ /C0158_208.dat
2010-11-11 20:39:46,366 INFO [com.adobe.idp.scheduler.jobstore.DSCJobStoreTX] Handling 1 trigger(s) that missed their scheduled fire-time.
2010-11-11 20:40:22,056 ERROR [com.adobe.idp.scheduler.jobstore.DSCJobStoreTX] Error retrieving job, setting trigger state to ERROR.
org.quartz.JobPersistenceException: Couldn't retrieve job: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared [See nested exception: java.sql.SQLException: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared]
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.retrieveJob(JobStoreSupport.java:1338)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.triggerFired(JobStoreSupport.java:2789)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport$37.execute(JobStoreSupport.java:2757)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.executeInNonManagedTXLock(JobStoreSupport.ja va:3662)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.triggerFired(JobStoreSupport.java:2751)
at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:313)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:2928)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1571)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement.serverExecute(ServerPreparedStatement.java:1124)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement.executeInternal(ServerPreparedStatement.java:676)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:1030)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.CachedPreparedStatement.executeQuery(CachedPreparedStatem ent.java:90)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.executeQuery(WrappedPreparedStat ement.java:255)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.StdJDBCDelegate.selectJobListeners(StdJDBCDelegate.java:843)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.retrieveJob(JobStoreSupport.java:1319)
... 5 more
2010-11-11 20:40:22,061 ERROR [org.quartz.core.ErrorLogger] An error occured while firing trigger 'WatchedFolder.WatchedFolder:1107'
org.quartz.JobPersistenceException: Couldn't retrieve job: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared [See nested exception: java.sql.SQLException: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared]
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.retrieveJob(JobStoreSupport.java:1338)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.triggerFired(JobStoreSupport.java:2789)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport$37.execute(JobStoreSupport.java:2757)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.executeInNonManagedTXLock(JobStoreSupport.ja va:3662)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.triggerFired(JobStoreSupport.java:2751)
at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:313)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:2928)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1571)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement.serverExecute(ServerPreparedStatement.java:1124)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ServerPreparedStatement.executeInternal(ServerPreparedStatement.java:676)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:1030)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.CachedPreparedStatement.executeQuery(CachedPreparedStatem ent.java:90)
at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrappedPreparedStatement.executeQuery(WrappedPreparedStat ement.java:255)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.StdJDBCDelegate.selectJobListeners(StdJDBCDelegate.java:843)
at org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreSupport.retrieveJob(JobStoreSupport.java:1319)
... 5 more
2010-11-11 20:56:46,550 INFO [com.adobe.idp.scheduler.jobstore.DSCJobStoreTX] Handling 1 trigger(s) that missed their scheduled fire-time.
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Originally Posted by bjbradleyUSC
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