Product

Kodak UpFront 4.0

Platform

Microsoft Windows

Operating system

Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003

Symptoms

Sometimes you need to customize the name format of multipart jobs that are used by UpFront software. For example—when exporting Jobs from UpFront to Preps software.

Solution

Pre-requisite for the following solution:
UpFront version 4.0.2

Changing the Job name format requires modifying the UpFront40.ini file of UpFront. A new section is manually added to the UpFront40.ini file, or if the section already exists, you need to edit it:

The following text in the ini file shows what the section should be after you either edit the existing section or add the section:
[Preps MultiPart Job]
Allow Spaces=1
Remove Hyphens=0
Use Pattern=0
Pattern=
entry values:
0 (zero) = FALSE, other values = TRUE

Explanation of parameters in the ini file:

• Allow Spaces—if FALSE (default is TRUE), UpFront removes any space in the file name (and in the Pattern, if there are any)
• Remove Hyphens—if TRUE (default is FALSE), UpFront will remove any hyphen in the File Name (and in the Pattern, if there are any)
• Use Pattern—if TRUE (default is FALSE), UpFront uses the pattern set in the Pattern entry. This allows to turn off and on the pattern usage
• Pattern—Possible Expressions: [JOB NAME], [JOB TITLE], [JOB FILE], [PART TYPE], [PART COUNTER] where:
  • [JOB NAME] is the file name selected by the user
  • [JOB TITLE] is the Job Title
  • [JOB FILE] is the Job File No.
  • [PART TYPE] is the exported part type, such as Text, Cover, Folder, Leaflet
  • [PART COUNTER] is the order in the export process file creation. For example, if 3 part types are exported, it is the order in which they are exported. It is unrelated to the part type, and just serves as a means of differentiation.

Notes:

• Allow Spaces and Remove Hyphens are used even if a pattern is not used.
• Pattern must include at least one of the [PART *] expressions, otherwise the pattern will resolve into a single file name for all types. The file name is then ignored by the UpFront software and the default pattern will be used.
• Invalid characters in the pattern of the file name are replaced with '-' (hyphen) (/\:*?"<>|)

Examples:

Job Name is myjob and it includes 2 part types (Text and Cover).
Pattern=[JOB NAME][PART COUNTER] results in:
myjob1.job
myjob2.job
When using this pattern, you do not know which file is the Cover, and which is the Text.

Whereas when: Pattern=[JOB NAME]_[JOB NAME]_[PART TYPE]
the result is:
myjob_myjob_Text.job
myjob_myjob_Cover.job
In this example, you know which file is the Cover and which is the Text.

Pattern=[JOB NAME]_[JOB NAME]
In this example, the file name is ignored because it is not unique.

You can also control the file name without a pattern by setting the following flags:

Allow Spaces=0
Remove Hyphens=1
will result in:
myjobText.job
myjobCover.job

Allow Spaces=1
Remove Hyphens=1
will result in:
myjob Text.job
myjob Cover.job

Technical contact(s)

Eyal Luzon

Submitted by

Eyal Luzon

Date submitted

02 Aug 2006