Main Features
This page lists the main features of LightSWITCH; of course you can only fully appreciate the ease of use and flexibility of LightSWITCH after trying it for yourself. Download a fully-functional trial.
- Create new flows with the Flow Wizard
- Download and upload files to FTP servers
- Receive files as email attachments
- Send files per email or send simple notification emails
- Compress and uncompress files
- Sort files by file type or file naming conventions
- Rename files
- Schedule tasks for execution at specific times
Create new flows with the Flow Wizard
Though the visual flow editor in LightSWITCH is easy to use, the flow wizard makes the task of creating a new custom flow even easier. Answer a few uncomplicated questions and the wizard does the heavy lifting for you. And the full power of the visual editor can be used after the flow wizard is finished to make adjustments or expand the flow.
Download and upload files to FTP servers
LightSWITCH can check multiple FTP servers and download files automatically as they arrive, even from nested folders. Files can also be uploaded in a flow, for example to deliver them to the next stage in the processing workflow.
Receive files as email attachments
It is often convenient to tell your customers to email small files. LightSWITCH makes processing of such email attachments easy. The “mail receive” tool automatically checks one or more email accounts and drops all file attachments in the flow.
Use variables to customize job processing
Variables in SWITCH can be used in the properties of many built-in tools to access job properties; they make job processing dynamic. Variables can be used to route jobs, customize email information, show custom information in the files pane, etc...
Variables can even access embedded EXIF, IPTC or XMP information.
Send files per email or send simple notification emails
Files in a flow can be sent to one or multiple recipients through email but LightSWITCH can also just send simple notification emails without attached files. And it is smart enough to let you send back an email straight to the customer who delivered the file to you.
Support for variables allows you to customize the emails that are sent so that the show exactly the details that your customers are looking for.
At any point in a flow, files can be uncompressed; LightSWITCH supports ZIP and RAR compression and even lets you specify a list of passwords to uncompress files. In the other direction LightSWITCH supports (optionally password-protected) ZIP compression.
Each flow connection in LightSWITCH is capable of sorting on file type, file name (including support for powerful regular expressions) and using variables. This allows routing jobs to the correct spot for further processing.
A prefix or suffix can be added to files (for example to introduce a naming convention scheme for all incoming files) but the file name or extension of files can also be completely changed.
Schedule tasks for execution at specific times
Tasks such as FTP upload or email transmission of files can be scheduled for certain times of the day, perfect if you for example don’t want to overload the company network during business hours.