LightSWITCH 07

Basic building blocks

Simple flows that focus on demonstrating one simple task.

• Compress jobs
  It is often desirable to compress files before they are sent to the next step in the workflow or before they are archived.
• Uncompress jobs
  When receiving jobs or reading them from an archive they might have to be uncompressed first.
• Working with subfolders
  All SWITCH products support reading jobs from subfolders and archiving them in structured subfolders at the end of a flow.
• Receive email attachments
  You can receive files into a flow as email attachments using the mail tool. One or more email accounts are automatically checked and all attachments processed.
• Download files from an FTP server
  Automatically download all files from selected folders on an FTP server into a folder in a flow for further processing. This flow shows how easy that is.
• Load-Balancing Processes
  This flow demonstrates how load-balancing between a number of processes can be accomplished easily in a flow.
• Make a copy of files
  It’s easy to move files around in a flow, but how can you make copies of files in a flow? This flow is a demonstration of that.
• Send email notification
  

  Sometimes you want to notify someone of something that happened while a file was processed; this flow demonstrates how to send an email notification.

• Store files in subfolders
  

  This flow demonstrates how to have one output folder but still keep track of where files came from by storing them in subfolders.

• Sort files based on file type
  

  I have customers sending in PostScript files and PDF files; how do I treat both file types differently in a flow?

• Rename files
  This flow demonstrates a very easy way to add a prefix or suffix to the names of processed files. More complex renaming has to be done using scripting.
• Timed processing
  I have a process that preferably should run during the night (such as uploading files to an FTP server)… This flow demonstrates how to accomplish that.
• Priority process
  This flow demonstrates how you can change priorities on connections to make sure files are moved over the connection with the highest priority first.
• Filter files with regular expressions
  This flow demonstrates how to filter files based on the file names containing a date. The format of the date being checked is dd-mm-yy and can be placed anywhere in the file name.