Creating a Folder Download Rule

You can use a folder download rule to export a hierarchy of folders and files from a Process Composer folder into a file system. The structure of the folders and files is preserved.

See Also
About Rules
About Download and Upload Folder Rules
Creating a Folder Upload Rule
About Referenced Content
  1. From the search menu in the Top Bar, search for and select the simulation process or simulation activity containing the folder, documents, and files to export.
  2. From the navigation pane, select Content.
  3. Select the folder to export.

    A folder download rule can export from the following:

    • A simulation folder (the folder can reside in the simulation activity or in another unrelated simulation activity, or the folder can reside in the parent simulation process)
    • A simulation data category
    • A reference to a bookmark folder

  4. From Actions menus in the Content page, select Create Download Rule.
  5. From the Folder Download Rule window that appears, do the following:
    1. Enter the Title of the rule.
    2. Select the Download Step in which the rule will be executed.
    3. Choose whether the rule is Enabled. By default, the value is True and the download rule will be executed. You can choose a value of False to run an activity without executing its export rule.
    4. Enter the name of the source files to export; for example Steel*. Enter * or leave the field blank to export all of the folders and files.
    5. Choose whether to download all documents or only versioned or non-versioned documents during the import.
    6. Select the Download Method.

      You can choose from the following:

      • Download the documents and allow them to be modified (read-write).
      • Download the documents but do not allow them to be modified (read-only).
      • Checkout the documents.

    7. Select the Download Path. You can choose whether or not to create a directory under the working directory that corresponds to the category in which the documents are stored. Process Composer always creates a directory corresponding to the folder, if any, in which the documents are stored. If you choose this option, you must configure the application to look in the appropriate subdirectory for the files that were exported.
    8. Select the Download Empty Folders check box to create corresponding empty directories in the file system.
    9. Click Done to create the folder download rule.