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Move#

Screenshot showing a large-scale image of a moving object.

When activated, the move task will move a given file or directory (source) to a different location (destination). The source and destination, can be provided either by the input port or in the task settings.

Screenshot showing a UI element labeled as "Move" with input fields for "source" and "cy".

Inputs#

Name Description
source String Source file/directory
destination String Destination file/directory
overwrite Boolean Overwrite existing file or directory
attempts Integer Number of attempts to perform this operation. Default is 1 attempt
sleepBetweenAttempts Integer Interval of time between the attempts. Default is 1000ms
Activate any Activate the task

Outputs#

Name Data Type Description
Success Boolean Triggered when the task is executed with success
Error Error Triggered when the task failed for some reason

Settings#

On the General tab, you have the usual settings and the following settings:

Name Data Type Values Default Description
Source String Source file/directory
Destination String Destination file/directory
Overwrite Boolean False Overwrite existing file or directory
Number of attempts Integer 1 Number of attempts to perform this operation.
Sleep Between Attempts Integer 1000 Interval of time between the attempts.

For the Source and Destination settings you can use tokens as represented below:

Available tokens:
  ${path} - Watched path
  ${archive} - Archive path
  ${temp} - Temporary directory of the user
  ${id} - DriverId ("\" chars replaced with "_")

Examples:
  ${path}\subdir\file.txt
  ${temp}\files\${id}\file.txt
  c:\destination\file.txt
  c:\source\file.txt

Screenshot showing settings options in a system configuration interface.

Behavior#

In this task you choose a driver when dropping it into the workflow (if you have more than one driver associated with the controller).

Upon activation, will send a Move command to the driver where it will try to move the source location (file or directory) into the destination location. If it fails, will retry attempts times, waiting sleepBetweenAttempts milliseconds each time.

When the operation is executed with success, both Success and result outputs emit their respective values. In case of the task , for some reason, is not able perform the operation, an Error is emitted.

Remarks#

There is no particular remark to be made.