I have used the Designer, Data Mapper and Workflow in order to create a hot folder that consumes an XML and then generates a designed PDF with variable data from the XML.
Finally I want the generated PDF to be outputted to a certain folder. However, it is instead put into a folder that I don’t know how to set. The only thing that is being sent to my output folder is the original XML.
How do I change this workflow so that the PDF generated is sent to the output folder, while the input XML is not?
Hi Marcus, have you tried to use the “create output” plugin in your workflow?
In Designer you can configure your output settings & directory by goint to File>Print Presets> output creation settings.
These are sent to the workflow via File>Package File and can be assigned to the create output plugin
If you want to use the All-In-One task to control the output destination, you must do so by specifying an Output Preset file that is already configured to store the output in the proper target folder. The output file will therefore never be returned to Workflow because it will already have been stored in its final location.
Otherwise, as Waldona stated, you can replace the All-In-One task by stringing together the Data Mapper, Content Creation, Job Creation and Output Creation tasks.
You can set your folder in designer in Print presets –> Output Creation settings. In the window “Print Options” check “Directory” and the in “Job Output Mask” enter your file name you want, and in “Job Output Folder” select your own folder
finish the settings of your preset and save it by giving a name
to send this preset to the workflow, in Package file select the name of the preset you have created in the Output Creation Preset and send it to the workflow.
