Path

Use this field to specify the path to the directory to monitor for watched files, or the path to one or more nodes in an XML string under which data resides for rows to be extracted. This field is used with the Discover File and Extract XML Collection event action types.

For the Discover File event action type, this parameter requires a fully qualified path to a directory.

If the WATCHSUBDIRECTORIES parameter is set to True, this directory is the root at which the system watches for changes. Otherwise, the system monitors only the specified directory.

When monitoring for a specific file, this parameter must be set to the fully qualified, correct path of the directory where the file is supposed to be located. In this case, the FILTER parameter must be set to the file name.

This parameter supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) paths.

For the Extract XML Collection event action type, this parameter is expressed in XML Path Language (XPath) syntax.

The contents of this field must use this syntax:

scalarExpr

where scalarExpr is or resolves to the fully qualified path to a directory, or the XPath expression pointing to the extraction nodes.

To designate the path using an expression, click the button to the left of this field.

When you click OK to return to the Event Actions form, the application "wraps" this content within a PATH( ) parameter, which yields this final syntax:

PATH( scalarExpr )

Note: If scalarExpr is a literal value, the application automatically encloses it in double quotation marks when returning it to the Event Actions form. If scalarExpr is an expression, the application does not enclose it in quotation marks.