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FileAnnounce PAD file: 'Portable Application Description' files are datasets which allow software authors to communicate specific and most often requested information about their products to online communities in a concise and standard way. Click here for FileAnnounce PAD file which can be opened in a standard browser. Click here for FileAnnounce PAD file in XML format (data can be extracted and parsed using standard XML toolkits). Although many organizations these days are using company-wide document management systems (such as DME by 80-20 software), the same organizations are often still making use of good ol' LAN drives/network shares for document sharing. It was upon the request of one such company that FileAnnounce was created... The company had set up a network share to enable access to sensitive documents by a small group of Business Analysts and Architects, who were involved in a project to overhaul the company's core Business systems. A consequence of the extensive vendor evaluation phase of this project was that a large volume of documents were being generated and added to the directory tree or archived daily, and at the same time the Chief Architect was streamlining the directory structure which held these documents. This in turn meant there was much manual activity in composing and sending out emails to all users of the share, whenever new documents were added, older ones archived or documents moved from one location to another - and even then, because not all notifications went out in a timely fashion, users often found themselves working off older document versions or unable to easily find where a particular document had gone. FileAnnounce was developed to address these issues.
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If
you are using network drives for document sharing, then you too can benefit from
FileAnnounce. You just specify the Parent directory of the tree you want
monitored, any sub-directories in the tree you wish to be excluded from
monitoring, enter the email addresses of the people you want notified, and then
FileAnnounce monitors changes in the directory tree and automatically alerts the
nominated recipients of the changes. 
To
illustrate its functionality, I configured FileAnnounce to the values shown
above in the 
