Source—sFTP Embedded

Use the Source tab to configure a new source or edit an existing source. How? The tab content depends on the source type. Settings for sources of type sFTP Embedded are listed here.

General Information and Action

Element Description

Save

Saves the source without deploying it. Remember to save before closing this tab.

Deploy/Deployed

Deploys and activates the source. You must save the source before you can deploy it. You must re-save before you can redeploy. The configuration must be valid or deployment fails.

The Deploy Source dialog appears, prompting you for an optional comment. Impacted transfers are listed. Click the Deploy or Cancel button in the dialog.

The Deploy action in the tab is grayed with a green check to show successful deployment.

To view information about deployed artifacts, click the Show Deployment Details button on the Artifacts Search tab, or view the Deployments tab on the Monitoring page.

Revert

Reverts all changes since the last save.

General Information

Click the arrow to the left to display read-only source information, including name, last user to update, last update date and time, and last deployment date and time.

Description

Allows you to add or edit the artifact description. This description is for all deployments of the artifact and is visible in the Artifacts Search tab.

The Deploy dialog also allows you to enter a description, which is specific to a particular deployment label and is visible in the Deployments tab on the Monitoring page.

Location

Click the arrow to the left to display information about the location of files to be transferred.

Element Description

Content Folder

Specifies the directory from which files are transferred.

Include Content in Subfolder

Specifies that files in subfolders are also transferred if checked.

Source Schedule

Click the arrow to the left to display information about when the source is checked for files to be transferred. Source schedule settings affect all transfers that use the source.

Element Description

Add schedule

Allows you to schedule transfers that use this source. For more information, see Scheduler.

Actions

Click the arrow to the left to display source processing actions, which affect all transfers that use the source.

Element Description

Add processing actions

Allows you to compress, decompress, encrypt, or decrypt transferred files before the transfer. For more information, see Pre-Processing Actions.

Advanced Properties

Click the arrow to the left to display advanced properties.

Element Description

Optional filtering of source content specified as

Specifies how the filter string is interpreted: Wildcard (the default) or Regular Expression.

Exclude Files

Excludes files from the transfer. You can use * as a wildcard. For example, *.xml specifies that XML files are not transferred. If Exclude Files is not specified, no files are excluded.

Transfers can specify files to include using filters. For more information, see Transfer. Exclude Files and Include Files are executed before transfer filters. Coordinate your sources and transfers accordingly.

Include Files

Includes files in the transfer. You can use * as a wildcard. For example, *.xml specifies that XML files are transferred. If Include Files is not specified, all files are included unless excluded by Exclude Files, which takes precedence.

Transfers can specify files to include using filters. For more information, see Transfer. Exclude Files and Include Files are executed before transfer filters. Coordinate your sources and transfers accordingly.

Related Topics

Creating a Source in Using Oracle Managed File Transfer