TimeIO-Frontend.md

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ In the following we will have a look at the fields which need to be filled out,
 * **Timestamp format**: The expected format follows https://strftime.org/
   * Example 1: If your timestamp looks like this `6/13/2024 3:45:00 PM`
 
+    ```
                         The Timestamp format is :          `%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p`
+    ```
 * **Column delimiter:** e.g. typical csv delimiter: , ; \\t
 * **Footlines:** If the last line of your file is an empty line then ???
 * **Decimal sign:** standard is the "Point"
@@ -40,13 +42,48 @@ Please note that you will only see _Things_ that belong to projects in which you
 
 To create a new _Thing_ press the button **add Thing** in the upper right corner. A new tab opens. To successfully recreate a thing you need to provide the following information:
 
-##### Label
+#### Label
 
-##### Project/Group
+#### Project/Group
 
-##### Description
+#### Description
 
-##### Ingest type
+#### Ingest type
+
+#### SFTP Settings
+
+* **Filename pattern**: 
+  * You can work with wildcards by using the asterix sign `*`
+  * **Example 1**: 
+    * You only want to consider files that start with `abc`, contain `fgh` somewhere in the middle and end with `.xyz`, 
+    * then the filename pattern would be `abc*def*xyz`
+
+#### External SFTP Server Settings
+
+To specify the path on the sFTP Server which should be synced, you can use absolute and relative descriptions.
+
+* **Example 1**
+  * Relative path
+    * uri: `sftp://files.ufz.de`
+    * user: `met-mosep`
+    * path: `Logger/rawdata`
+  * Absolute path:
+    * uri: `sftp://files.ufz.de`
+    * user: `met-mosep`
+    * path: `/met-mosep/Logger/rawdata`
+
+If you want to sync the entire home directory you could as well use any of the two options.
+
+* **Example 2**
+
+  * Relative path
+    * uri: `sftp://files.ufz.de`
+    * user: `met-mosep`
+    * path: `.`
+  * Absolute path
+    * uri: `sftp://files.ufz.de`
+    * user: `met-mosep`
+    * path: `/met-mosep/`
 
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