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Process only certain input folders

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:02 am
by abonsey
I have a single input folder that receives PDFs in a containing folder with a date applied to it eg:
the folder today would be 16-01-14 and contain 10 PDFs which I want to process.
The problem I have is that another folder might appear with another date eg 16-01-16 that also has PDFs in it.
My question is how do I leave that folder and its contents untouched until the date becomes 16-01-16?

I have been successful in processing only the folder with today's date but cannot work out how to keep the other folder until the required date.

Thanks for any help

Re: Process only certain input folders

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:27 pm
by gabrielp
Weird date format. Why don't you just move out all folders from the starting folder, if the folder date == today's date. Then, if not, put it into a hold, then back to the original folder. If you didn't put the hold there, it would just keep trying the folder over and over.

Re: Process only certain input folders

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:27 pm
by abonsey
Hi,
Thanks for the response. It's using an American date format from a customer.
I have added a looping "Hold" that should address the issue as you guided to in your guidelines