File Arrival Best Practices

File Arrival Jobs are a powerful tool for automation. Here are some guidelines to use to get the most out of your processes using the File Arrival utility.

File Arrival has some normal exit codes to keep in mind when creating jobs. If a file matching your specified filename and creation time frame is found, the job will exit with a 0.

OpCon will automatically treat this* exit code as a "Finished OK", but it is frequently desirable to have the job Finish OK when no file is found (exit code 1) or when a file matches the filename, but was not created during the specified time frame (exit code 3).

In this case, you can use the Failure Criteria section at the bottom of the Job Details page to instruct OpCon to treat those exit codes as Finished OK.