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file event

A file-based event waits for a particular file (the trigger) to appear before the event occurs. Before scheduling a report that waits for a file-based event to occur, you must first create the file-based event in the Events management area of the CMC. When you define a file-based event, you specify a filename that the Event Server should monitor for a particular file. When the file appears, the Event Server triggers the event.

File Repository Server

There is typically one Input and one Output File Repository Server in every Crystal Enterprise implementation. (In larger deployments, there may be multiple Input and Output File Repository Servers, for redundancy.) The Input File Repository Server manages all of the report objects that have been published to the system by administrators or end users (using the Crystal Publishing Wizard, the Crystal Management Console (CMC), the Crystal Import Wizard, or a Crystal designer component such as Crystal Reports). The Output File Repository Server manages all of the report instances generated by the L(s). The File Repository Servers are responsible for listing files on the server, querying for the size of a file, querying for the size of the entire file repository, adding files to the repository, and removing files from the repository.