Hi

Very new to Visual CRON. Want to use it to replace a set of other tools that we currently use for SFTP transfer tasks.

I can setup the SFTP transfer job fine and create notification emails but I want other things to happen before /after the transfers to automate it a bit more but don't know where to start. I need a few pointers to get me going

Essentially the sort of thing I want is.

1. Connect to an SFTP server. If successful proceed to 2. If not then wait 'x' minutes and retry. After 3 attempts if not successful then send email and stop job.
2. List files to confirm the files I want are there. If they are proceed to 3. if not send an email advising that 1 or more of the files is missing then proceed to 3. If none of the files are present then send email adivsing and stop task.
3. Transfer the files that are there waiting. Send email advising successfuly transfer listing the files that were transferred.

Thanks

VisualCron is built or background automation - so there are no "confirm" options.

VisualCron captures errors so you could create a follow up Task and create a Condition. That Condition (a Condition of type "VisualCron") can be used to check result of previous Task and the "Actions" can control what happens depending on result.

Notifications could be used to send email about result. There is an email Notification. You can use Variables to send the result of the FTP Task (for example # files transferred).

---