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Example Detect updates and initiate project

Take the example that you want to be notified and have a new project created for any new or changed assets in your top-level source folder (/Web/English). You want WorldServer to check for new or changed assets every night at 1:00 am.

  1. Set up a workflow for which you want to create a rule.
  2. Create a recurrence named Daily-early-am that runs every day at 1:00 am.
  3. Create a new rule that specifies what you want to occur. The final rule will look something like the following in the Rules Wizard:

    For all new or changed assets under /Web/English, email the list of assets to jdoe@company.com using subject Changed assets and initiate project New Material for locales German and French and workgroup default and workflow Web Updates . Execute this rule on schedule Daily-1am.The name of this rule is Detect changes and initiate project.

When the rule executes, WorldServer looks at the path specified and creates a project per locale when it finds modified assets. These projects contain tasks for each asset modified.

The rule also causes WorldServer to send an email with a list of the new and changed assets to the specified user (jdoe@company.com).