Hot Folders
Hot Folders Interface Components
Hot Folders allows you to view hot folder instances, create or delete hot folders.
These tasks can be performed from the menus or from the buttons on the window.
Hot Folder Menu
The Hot Folder menu has commands that allow you to create, open, delete or close hot folders.
View Menu
The View menu has commands that allow you display Summary or Details windows, filter the Detail view, and manage the workspace. There is also an Options setting that allows the user to switch the interface appearance from the Xerox standard interface to the operating system appearance. The operating system appearance setting supports high contrast and larger font settings.
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Stop Hot Folder Dialog Box
This confirmation appears when you are about to stop a hot folder from processing.
Click Yes to confirm that you want to stop the folder.
Click No if you do not want to stop the folder.
Delete Hot Folder Dialog Box
This confirmation request appears when you are about to delete a hot folder.
Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the folder. The folder will finish processing any files currently being processed. All files will then be deleted along with the folder.
Click No if you do not want to delete the folder.
Hot Folder Summary Window
The Summary window provides a one line summary of each hot folder on the system.
Hot Folder Window
Each hot folder has its own window that allows you to control the jobs in the processing queue and change the settings for that folder.
This section describes the icons and features found in the window.
Instructions for setting up and using hot folders are found in the
section “Using Hot Folders” on page 6–2 .
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Hot Folder Icons
The window for each hot folder has a status area that displays icons and messages indicating the current state of the hot folder.
Icon
Table 6-1. Hot Folder Window Icons
Meaning
The hot folder has contents.
The hot folder is empty.
The hot folder is processing information (animated).
The hot folder has an error.
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File View Tab
In a hot folder’s window, there are two tabs. The File View tab lets you view the files in the folder.
The tab also has controls for changing the processing order of files and removing files from the folder.
NOTE: The File View tab can only display a maximum of 100 items. When the list is full, the oldest item will be removed from the list.
Setup Tab
In a hot folder’s window, there are two tabs. The Setup tab allows you to configure the folder and set processing options.
Changing the interface appearance
The Hot Folder interface can be switched between the standard
Xerox interface and the operating system interface look and feel.
The operating system option supports high contrast and larger font settings. This setting should be selected when those accessibility options are required.
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To change the interface appearance
1. From the View menu, select Options.
2. Select one of the following:
• Select the Use Xerox application appearance (Does not
support high contrast and large fonts) to enable the standard Xerox interface appearance.
• Select the Use operating system defined application
appearance (Supports high contrast and large fonts) to enable the operating system interface appearance.
3. Click OK.
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Port Controller
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Port Controller
The Port Controller accepts client connections on defined
TCP/IP
ports, spools client data and passes the data to a predefined launch program.
The launched program can, for example, execute a PERL script that uses the Command Line Interface to submit a job or modify job attributes.
The Port Controller does not delete processed jobs. It is the responsibility of the launched application or script to clean up the disk when job processing is complete.
Multiple simultaneous active connections are possible, limited by the host system resources. Port Gateway will backlog up to 5 pending connections, any more than that will be dropped, but this does not affect the number of active connections.
Port Gateway can be used to perform the following:
• Add a new port for monitoring
• Delete an existing port
• Block new connections
• Stop connections
• Start or Stop polling for new files to process
• Configure a spool directory for each port
• Optionally restrict access to the port from a specific incoming
client (by IP address)
• Allocate disk space to the port for spooling
See Also
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