Trigger Events - network intensive?

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AppAust
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Trigger Events - network intensive?

Post by AppAust » Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:50 pm

I am setting up a macro to trigger every time a new file exists in a network folder on my fileserver.

I am wondering how intensive the network traffic between the PC running the macro and the fileserver is going to be.

Is the continious polling going to create me a network traffic problem??
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Post by CyberCitizen » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:19 am

Depends how often you want it to check, eg something like every 5 minutes is nothing ever 2-10 seconds will increase the load a little.
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Post by AppAust » Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:26 am

I dont see any options on the Trigger tab the enable me to specify how often it should check.
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Post by CyberCitizen » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:21 am

Sorry I was referring to a loop in a script to check for the file presence.
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