Variables

Sometimes you want to customize the way a built-in tool in SWITCH works: you want to send an email with the name of the sent job in the subject for example. The most powerful way of doing this is the scripting support in PowerSWITCH, but scripting presents a barrier and in many cases is overkill.

The answer to this need lies in the support for variables in all flavors of SWITCH; these allow the user to specify relatively simple customizations in most of the properties used in tools and configurators.

Two examples make it easy to see the power of variables:

• In the “subject” property of the mail send tool, variables can be used to insert the name of the job, its size, etc…
• The files pane can be customized to show extra information using variables. This even allows to show embedded metadata fields in the file pane as variables have full access to embedded EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata.

Using variables is especially easy due to the “Edit Variables” dialog window where all available variables are shown and explained and where their available options can easily be set.