Files.com records an Evaluation for every closed window. The Evaluations for an Expectation provide a history of past windows and their outcomes, including the evidence that explains each result.

A result includes which files were matched, how many, their combined size, and which criteria failed and why.

An Evaluation will open an Incident when a scheduled window fails and no Incident is already open for the associated Expectation.

Evaluation Timing

Files.com evaluates Expectations on a periodic schedule. Power plan sites are evaluated approximately every 15 minutes. Premier and Enterprise plan sites are evaluated approximately every 5 minutes.

Evaluation results are derived from file timestamps, not from when the evaluator runs. If your due time is 06:00 and the evaluation runs at 06:02, the due time deadline is still recorded as 06:00.

Details Recorded in Evaluations

Evaluations contain the following information about each closed window.

ITEM	DETAILS
Status	The status or result of the window: Open, Success, Late, Missing, or Invalid.
Opened Via	The trigger type that was used to open the Expectation window.
Opened At	The time that the evaluation was started.
Window Start	The start time of the evaluation window.
Window End	The time at which the window closed.
Deadline	The scheduled deadline for this window, if applicable.
Late Cutoff	The latest time files could arrive and still result in a Late outcome, if a late acceptance interval is configured.
Updated At	The time that the evaluation was last updated.
Closed At	The time that the evaluation finished.
Hard Close	The hard stop time, after which the window may not remain open.
Matched	The total number of files matched.
Missing	The total number of expected files that are missing.
Errors	The number of errors.
Summary	A summary showing the number of matched files, the number of matched bytes, and the outcome for the criteria.
Criteria Errors	Details of which criteria were not satisfied, including the specific rules that were violated.

Criteria Errors

The Evaluation's Criteria Errors lists a separate message for each unsatisfied Criteria rule.

File-level criteria rules create pre-defined error messages to indicate the type of error and what went wrong. Errors for content validation rules support customized error messages using a message and detail supplied by your TransformScript.

The Evaluation's Criteria Errors always contains all of the errors from file-level criteria rules. It includes the first 100 content validation errors, limiting each error to 2 KB. If more than 100 errors are generated by a content validation rule, the Criteria Errors indicates how many content validation errors were omitted.

An Open Evaluation only shows the file-level criteria errors that have been found. Content validation rules are evaluated when the window closes. An Evaluation that matched no files at all is Missing rather than Invalid, because there is no content to validate.