Final PDF file name should be the same name as the PDF I am using

OL Connect Enterprise Workflow
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Hi:

I am taking ready made PDFs and passing them through Workflow to add OMR codes and sequence numbers.

All this works great, however I need the final output files to have the same names as the PDFs I am using to begin with.

How can i do this?

(input) NAME_OF PDF.PDF -----> Workflow ----> (output) NAME_OF_PDF.PDF

Thanks,

Cecile

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Hello, you need to use the %o in your plugin which creates the PDF. %o is a system variable which is the original filename.

What are you using…Create PDF, PlanetPress Image or DigitalAction?

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Hi Cecile,

You’re looking for the system variable of “Original File Name”.

In your Output plug-in, right click on the File Name field and you’ll be given a menu. Go to Variables > System. In this final menu fly-out, you’ll see many possible variables to use in your filename, as well as the variables themselves.

Note that any time you see a field name in maroon like this one, you can right click to see a similar menu allowing you to build dynamic inputs.

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This is in the output preset that I’m building the file name.

I am using the output preset because of creating the OMR code.

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That’s right. Any output will do as long as it makes a file. They all have the File name option I mentioned and all accept the same variables accessible through the right click menu.

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If it is an output preset that you want to produce the named PDFs:

  1. in the workflow create a variable ‘orig_fname’ and use %o to assign the original file name to it
  2. in the datamapper, add automation variable called orig_fname
  3. in the datamapper, add a java script field and set it’s value to ‘automation.variables.orig_fname;’
  4. in the job preset add the orig_fname field to metadata
  5. in the output preset use the metadata field as the file name
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isn’t there a way to access the OriginalFilename property (Automation variable) of the datamapper directly in the output preset?