Scheduler to run workflow every time contents of specified folder increase

AkisM

I'm not sure if this should be asked in the designer or server forums, but I think this is a fairly common requirement so there should be a few solutions:

In my workflow, I specified a specific folder using directory input+dynamic input, and all files from that folder are pulled each time the workflow is run, and they are output as separate .csv files.

The problem is, I don't want the workflow to run through all files and re-export each time it is run. It would be inefficient. I want it to instead run only for the new files that were dropped in the folder. Is this possible? Would I need to use the filter tool in my workflow and filter by date created and take only the ones that were created in the last minute? And have the scheduler run this workflow every minute? Seems inefficient, especially if i have 15 of these workflows, and the scheduler runs 15 workflows 24/7 every minute.

What would be the best way to solve this problem, or the most simple way?

Thanks in advance.

MichalM

The event triggered workflows are executed out of the "field of vision" of the server service layer. If your server is configured to run 2 jobs simultaneously, the event triggered jobs will run outside of this limit which could affect resource consumption and hence performance of the server. 

Running the workflow every minute sounds like the better option here.