Trigger a script from outside

[jlandwerlen]

A few posts that may help,

Gateway Script to monitor directory for new files

Hi, I’m looking for some advice as to the best way to monitor a network directory location for new files. We have an external provider that FTP’s files into a specific directory on our network, and I would like the Ignition Gateway to monitor this directory and read in the new file as a string. From that point, I have some XML parsing code written and tested, I just can’t figure out how to monitor and get new files read in. (For completeness - once I have read and parsed the file I will move i…

Managing multiple asynchronous threads

I’ve followed this post for monitoring a directory for file changes and I think I have created more than one watch service in different threads. How do I monitor, manage, and delete these threads?

Using a timer is probably the easiest and best, unless you're interested if files change, then the file watcher may be what you want.