Set condition in job output mask

OL Connect Enterprise Job/Output Creation
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Hello,

Is there a possibility to set a condition in job output mask in output creation?
I would like to check the type of the document based on field from metadata document tags and use different metadata document tags to name the file depending on document type.

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You can, actually.

Consider the following output mask:

${if(document.metadata.Country == 'CA'){'Canada';}else{'United_States';}}.${template}

Using this with an appropriate job preset and separation results in files being named as you see them below:

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My data only contains either “CA” or “US” for the Country code that I’m feeding into metadata, but I can leverage that to build a condition to do whatever I want in the output mask. You just build your condition following standard Javascript syntax inside of the ${} wrapper as you see below. Then just remove the extra line breaks to make it fit nicely in the box.

${
    if (document.metadata.Country == 'CA') {
        'Canada';
    } else {
        'United_States';
    }
}

Here I’m using fixed values as my output values from the IF statement, but I could just as easily use metadata values there as well like this, where ABC and XYZ represent different fields in your data:

${
    if (document.metadata.Country == 'CA') {
        document.metadata.ABC;
    } else {
        document.metadata.XYZ;
    }
}

That said, however, you’ve got very limited space to write this statement and it becomes exceptionally hard to read (and therefore to debug/alter) the more complex it gets.

The better place to do this sort of conditional logic would be back in the datamapper. Create a javascript based extraction that can set a single “documentName” field to a given value based on the values in other fields. Then you pass that field over to your output preset and use it as is.

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Thank you very much! Very helpful and complete answer :slight_smile: