File Events using parameters

Hello,
Is it possible to create a file event which "files" field can use a parameter as value ?
My point is that I would like to create a script, with a directory path parameter, that is launched every time that a file comes to the directory path parameter, and not create one script for each directory.
If someone know a way to make this works, please answer me.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Yi Jiang

Hi,
You do not need to create separate scripts, you can simply create one script with one wait event and then create multiple file events for different paths and patterns that all raise the same event.
The exact filename and path are stored in the raise_event comment, and you can retrieve this value in your runtime parameter on the script using the jcs_event.event_filename() function.
So then each job of this single script will know which file to process based on the parameter.
Regards,
Anton

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