Defining Placeholders, File Name Masks, and Exclusion Masks

You can define placeholders, file name masks, and exclusion masks for the file name in the sender file/FTP adapter. This allows you to include multiple files or exclude particular files in the selection.

1. To select a list of files for processing, you can specify placeholders (* ?) for exactly one character in the File Name.
2. If you want to set an exclusion mask for theFile Name specified, or if you want to specify multiple directories with file name masks and exclusion masks, select Advanced Selection for Source File.
3. Specify an Exclusion Mask for the file name specified above.
4. You can enter additional specifications for Directory, File Name Mask, and Exclusion Mask in the table.

   These entries are processed in addition to the information specified above.

In this example, you want to process all files that have the extension '.txt', but want to exclude all files that begin with the letter 'a'.

To do this, enter *.txt for File Name, and a* for Exclusion Mask.