Event section contains Nodes that can be used to initiate and terminate the Process flow.
Generally, the "Start" event node task is used to start the process by triggering the event manually. However, Process Designer also provides other event triggers that can be used to automatically trigger another activity or event, those event triggers as explained in next section.
End node task is generally used to terminate or end your business process manually.
Use the File Input Task to start a process based on information from a file. It is represented as rectangular shape box as shown below:
The File Input Node is used to read file and is similar to the File Read Node Task except that a File Input Node can be used to start a process whenever a file appears in the specified repository. There are 4 file types that are supported by this node task - Excel, Fixed Width file, XML file and delimited file. Four repositories are supported by this node task which includes File system, FTP, FTPs and Secured FTP
As mentioned before, the File Input Node is similar to the File Read Node. Therefore, the properties of "File Input Node" task are same as "File Read Node" Task. For more details please refer File Read Task.