Configure the folder upload module

Settings are edited in HEAT Capture’s module settings UI, the same as any other module, under the section name HEAT.FolderUploadModule.

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Effect	When to change
`Enabled`	boolean	`true`	Whether the module runs at all	Disable when the folder is not in use for a deployment
`Folder`	string	`C:\FolderToUpload`	The folder watched for new files. Created automatically if it does not exist	Always, at deployment time. The default is a placeholder path
`DelayBeforeUpload`	duration	`30` seconds	How long the module keeps watching, and waits, after the session ends before it stops and reads the accumulated files	Longer, if whatever writes the files can lag behind the end of a session; shorter to get files into the session sooner
`OverrideNodeId`	boolean	`false`	Whether `NodeId` below is used	When the platform template needs this module’s data on a specific input node
`NodeId`	integer	`0`	HEAT input node the data is attributed to, when `OverrideNodeId` is `true`	With `OverrideNodeId`

Every row is backed by Config/FolderUploadSettings.cs. Two further members exist on that class, Interval and Timeout, but both carry a [HideSetting] attribute: they are not shown in the settings UI and are not meant to be changed directly.

Timing

The module’s watch window does not end when the session does. On session end, the module first waits out DelayBeforeUpload, still watching for new files, then stops watching and reads whatever was created during the whole window: session start through the end of that delay. A file written after the delay elapses is never seen.


[session start]───watching───[session end]───still watching for DelayBeforeUpload───[stop, read files]

Example configuration


{
  "HEAT.FolderUploadModule": {
    "Enabled": true,
    "Folder": "D:\\Exports\\SimTelemetry",
    "DelayBeforeUpload": "00:01:00"
  }
}

A one-minute delay for a source that writes its export file shortly after being told the exercise has ended, rather than during it.

HEAT Capture team. Last updated 2 October 2026.

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