WinAutomation allows you to monitor the files in a folder (and its subfolders if you choose to) and fire a job if a file is created, modified or deleted. You can add a "File Monitor Trigger" in a job, if you right click on it, select "Edit Triggers", then select to "Add New Trigger" and finally add the "File Monitor Trigger".
If you have tried to monitor network folders through this action, you have surely noticed that the trigger seems not to work:
The reason for that, is that the WinAutomation’s core component that is responsible for the proper monitoring of folders (hence the proper execution of the jobs that have a File Monitor trigger), the "WinAutomation's service", is run by default with a local system account (which does not have access to the network). If you want to monitor a network folder, you will have to specify the service to run with a network account so that it will be able to read from network locations. To do that:
- Start - Run - services.msc
- Right click on “WinAutomation Service” - Properties
- Log On tab
- Specify an account to log on as.
Make sure that the account that you will specify, has access to the network directories that you need to monitor.
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