We did something similar; however, per recommendations from Boston Workstation, we have it set up so the script runs through completion every five minutes instead of running continuously. Boston felt that it would be better if the script could run all the way through (i.e. check for the file, exist - do something, not exist, exit).
This works really well for us - the script runs all the way through every five minutes and it really is less room for error or hang ups. Kim Scaccia, System Admin Recovery Reimbursement Patient Business & Financial Services Halifax Medical Center 386-226-4590 opt 1 ext 2018 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence, Mitchell Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Talk] Method to watch a directory for a specific file Importance: High Is there a rules-based (or nice polished vba function) method for watching a specific directory for a specific file? I would like to incorporate printing to PDF from Meditech into our scripting capabilities. I can do this by creating a pdf printer driver (we have full adobe) that always prints to a specified directory, specified file. During the creation of a PDF, adobe uses a .tmp file, once the creation of the document is finished, adobe renames the .tmp file to the actual PDF. If I was able to "watch" the output directory for the file, I could then pick that file up and move it to the proper destination/proper name, and then close out the script. So I would also need some way to turn off the timeout in BWS, as each file may take some time to create and would be variable. Anyone have any ideas for these two things? * Watching a directory for a specified file (likely a vba function/subroutine) * Turning off the timeout in BWS? Thank you, Mitch Lawrence Lead Applications Analyst Technical Support - NPR/Automation CHRISTUS Information Management *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a "thank you" <http://intranet.christushealth.org/spiritBuck/> to someone!
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