Configuring an Upload Adapter

You can configure the Upload adapter to upload content (documents and files) from the working directory to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

  1. From the Utilities section of the action bar, click Upload and drop it on the process diagram.
  2. Select the Upload adapter.
  3. From the context toolbar, click Edit .
    The Upload Editor appears.
  4. Click Create New to create a new upload rule.
    The Create Upload Rule window appears.
  5. To edit the title, clear the AutoName box, and enter a name for the upload rule. Process Composer for Dashboard automatically names your download rule by default.
  6. Choose whether the rule is Enabled. By default, the value is True and the upload rule will run. You can choose a value of False to run an activity without running its upload rule.
  7. In the File Name field, enter the name of the source file to upload into the destination document. You can enter the path to the subdirectory (relative to the working directory), and you can use wildcards if you are unsure of the file name or if you want to import multiple files. You can enter multiple files in a comma-separated list; for example, steel.txt, aluminum*.txt, settings/loads.txt.
  8. Select an Object Parameter if you choose to upload content from an object in the 3DEXPERIENCE database. For more information, see Object Parameters.
  9. Select the Category where the content is stored, if you choose to upload content from the current activity. For more information, see About Categories.
  10. Select a Title Specification to choose how the document will be named.
  11. If you selected a user-specified Title Specification, enter the Content Title. If you selected Document Title = File Name, then the Content Title will be the same as your File Name.
  12. Enter a description of the file that will be imported into the database in the File Comments field. When you display the file in a stand-alone window, the comment appears on the properties page. Process Composer for Dashboard applies the same comment to all of the files in versioned documents that match the upload rule criteria.
  13. If desired, choose the attribute groups that will be assigned to the new document created by the upload rule. If you choose more than one attribute group, the groups must not contain the same attribute.
  14. If the upload rule will create a new document in the database, you can select the document type and policy. You can also select whether the document is owned or referenced and whether an impact graph will treat it as input or output.
  15. If desired, choose an importer. The importer refers to a preprocessing script that operates on the files in your working directory before the upload rule runs.
  16. Click Done to create the upload rule.