Tidal check for files that are in a certain format

Hello,
I am new to Tidal and I have been able to get a simple job to work that simply logs into our client's SFTP server, gets all files and brings them back to our system. Since SFTP is smart enough to know if we have a duplicate file, using wildcards has proved as an easy way to get this job started.
However, we certainly would rather have this job running a lot tighter and error proof for the future. So I figured I would come here to ask a few questions and see if anyone could provide me with some assistance on getting this script running a lot better.
Basically, we need to check this client's site every four hours for a file that they will be uploading daily. They don't put it on the site at the same time everyday, so that makes things a tad bit more difficult, but certainly not a big deal. The format of the file is always going to be the same and this is where I wanted some assistance.
The file will always be in the format of yyyymmdd_this_is_same_every_time.gz
So I basically just need a way to define a varaible in Tidal for this file that will take into consideration the date stamp of the file. Grab that certain file and then move it to an archive directory. We then plan on deleting files that are over a week old in the archive, but I feel like that is the easier task here.
Again, any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks guys.

If you go to the variable definition item, you can define a variable of date and check the "calculated" box. This allows you to apply various offsets such as +1, -1, previous working day and so on. Judicious combination of these offsets can give you all sorts of capabilities like "previous working day unless its the 29th February and unless its the year 2025 but it is my birthday".
"Working day -1 except if its Monday so last working day was Friday" is a common one for people to use.
Just remember you are now looking in the variables definitions menu ie outside the job definition as discussed above.
Cheers

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    Also having a problem becuase my pc runs outlook 2002 which is not compatible with itunes 7 and my calender cannot be syncronised. Don't know whether the two issues are related.

    Kudos to Randy. Thanks a lot; this worked for me. I simply opened itunes (and minimized it) with my ipod connected, opened "My Computer," right-clicked "IPOD" and ejected it. As soon as the icon in My Computer showed that it was ejected I quickly maximized itunes, clicked IPOD, and clicked the update button. Wah lah! iPod updated. Hope that helps the rest of you out there with this problem! Thanks again!
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