Routing Jobs

To process jobs accurately, it's necessary to be able to route them to the correct processes. SWITCH employs a variety of filters to accomplish this task.

Required tools
SWITCH		All flavors of SWITCH can implement this task.
Other tools	All tools necessary for this task are built into SWITCH; no extra tools are necessary
Time savings
The ROI calculation assumes this task will be used for all jobs, and that 1 minute is saved per processed job.

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File type

Routing jobs can happen on file type so that each job can be send to the correct tools to process it further. SWITCH can look at the extension of files, but also at their Mac type and creator codes.

File name

When needed, jobs can be routed based on their name using simple file name patterns or more complex regular expressions.

Variables and scripting

When more complex job routing is required variables or scripting can be used to route jobs. Variables are available in all flavors of SWITCH, scripting only in PowerSWITCH.

Example Flows

The following flows present examples of how jobs can be routed into flows:

• Routing based on file type
• Routing using regular expressions
• Routing using script expressions (PowerSWITCH only)
• Routing using script elements (PowerSWITCH only)
• Routing PDF files based on number of pages using scripting (PowerSWITCH only)