Job Output Mask Dialog

This dialog allows you to select a Job Output Mask using dynamic Metadata.

These are the options available in this dialog:

• File Separation: Select from options that allow various print output separations. The choices are not to separate (None), or to separate upon Job (Job/Job Segment) or Document (Document/Document Set) criteria.
  What Metadata options that will subsequently be made available will be determined by the choice made here.
  The choices are:

  • None / Job: Neither of these options allow access to much in the way of metadata.
    Options available thereafter are:

  • Meta data. With this selection only Page Break Grouping fields will be available. You need to select a different grouping level to access other metatdata fields.

  • Use Page Break Grouping Metadata: Allows you to create some Page Range metadata options.
    The choices are:

    • Add a Page Range.

    • Delete a Page Range

    • Page break range metadata field name. Edit the choice of name for the Page Break Range metadata field. This name can be manually altered in the edit box, before adding to the Job Output Mask, via the Insert button .
      
      The entry will be added at wherever the cursor is currently positioned within the Job Output Mask edit box. This defaults to the beginning of the mask, if not otherwise specified.

  •  Job Segment / Document / Document Set: All of these selections provide the same metadata options.

    • Meta data: Allows you to add datafile fields, or text strings to Job/Document metadata.

      • Tags table: This table contains any and all extra metadata entries that will be made available for this

        • Add datafile field or text to metadata.
          To add datafile field, select Add field meta data option, and select from the available fields in the datafile.
          To add text entry, select Add text meta data option, and then edit the text within the "Source" column.

        • Delete the selected entry from the Tag table.

        • / Move the selected entry up or down the Tag table order.

        • Add the selected entry to the Job Output Mask. The entry will be added at wherever the cursor is currently positioned within the Job Output Mask edit box. This defaults to the beginning of the mask, if not otherwise specified.

    • Use Page Break Grouping Metadata: Allows you to create some Page Range metadata options.
      The choices are:

      • Add a Page Range.

      • Delete a Page Range

      • Page break range metadata field name. Edit the choice of name for the Page Break Range metadata field. This name can be manually altered in the edit box, before adding to the Job Output Mask, via the Insert button .
        
        The entry will be added at wherever the cursor is currently positioned within the Job Output Mask edit box. This defaults to the beginning of the mask, if not otherwise specified.

• Job Output Mask: This contains the current Job Output Mask, as constructed from within this dialog.
  
  You could manually write the Job Output Mask directly into this edit box, or use the General options button to add standard metadata variable options to the Job Output Mask.
  
  For a list of the standard metadata variable options available see Print output variables.
  

  Note: Anything inside a ${…} placeholder is evaluated as a JavaScript expression, with the eventual result replacing the placeholder. Everything else is treated as literal text.

  For example: The Job Output Mask ${template}_${system.time,'yyyy-mm-dd'}.${template.ext} applied to a Template called "Testing", that was run on January 1 2017 and which outputted a PDF file would resolve to: Testing_2017-01-01.pdf.

  The characters : * ? " < > | (and / at the beginning and end) are not allowed as literal characters in the Job Output Mask, but may be used in a ${…} placeholder.