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  3. Chapter 4. Manage & Build

4.2.2.20. Dropbox Gateway In

 

The Dropbox gateway in allows to retrieve your messages from a Dropbox account.

The specific settings are:

 Dropbox account

 The name of the Dropbox account from which the messages are polled. This information is "read only", and set by the wizard when you allow Babelway to access the Dropbox account.

 Folder

 The folder in your Dropbox account from which the messages are transferred to Babelway. This folder is located under the path /Apps/Babelway/ .

 Filename pattern 

 If not empty, only the files whose name matches this pattern will be transferred to Babelway. Otherwise, all files are automatically transferred to Babelway 

 Suffix during transfer 

 Suffix that will be appended to the file name when a file is being transferred. This mechanism is used to prevent that a file is transferred twice. 

 After transfer behaviour 

 What will happen to your file after we have read it. This behaviour is important so that your file is not read again at next poll. The possible values are : 

  • Delete. It is the default. After having read it, the file will be deleted from the remote server. 
  • Rename. A suffix will be appended to the file name. 
  • Move. File will be moved to another folder of the remote server. 
  • Move and rename. File will be moved to another folder, and renamed. 
  • DoNothing. Don't do anything. Be very careful with this option, as it could mean that your file will be redownloaded at each poll. Should only be used with servers that move or delete the file automatically at download. 

 

 Suffix after transfer 

 Suffix that will be appended to the file name when a file has been completely transferred. The use of this mechanism allows you to keep the file after the transfer, with this suffix appended to its name. If left empty, the file will be deleted after the transfer. 

 Folder for transferred files 

 Directory where transferred files will be moved. 

 Scheduling 

 By default, the gateway will regularly poll the messages from your Dropbox account, so that they come into Babelway a short time (less than 10 minutes) after they have been placed in your Dropbox account. You can write here a cron expression to customise the polling schedule and the time zone for the polling. For easy creation of your cron expression, you can use the online cron maker tool available at : http://www.cronmaker.com/.

 

Note:

  • If there is a file name provided in the "Message In" or "Message Out" which contain ~ tilde character, All browser based on Chromium will replace the ~ tilde character by the _ underscore character when you try to download the file from the Babelway interface, For more details you can check this link https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479419
  • You can check bunch of info like last success date, last message date …etc. by pressing on Run Info button.

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  • The maximum file size accepted by this gateway is 250 MB.