The Chiizu File Workflow application allows you to define templates for file renaming and for sub folder creation. Both template types are controlled in the same way. Choose the elements that you want to combine to create the resulting file name or folder name. Select an element and press the Add button. The element you chose will be added to the current template which is displayed below the add button. If at any time you make a mistake, press the clear button to start again.
File Creation / Renaming
You may create a 'Rename File Template' in the manner described above. To test the template you have created in the file creation template editor, you can press the 'Select File' button and choose a sample file. This file will be passed through the template and the filename that would result from this sample will be displayed.
Folder Creation
You may create a 'Subfolder Name Template' in the manner described above. You should note that each time one of the elements that you include in your template changes, a new directory will be created. For example, if you include the Current Month in your template, each new month a new folder will be created. If you include the Photographer ID, a new folder will be created each time an ID.txt file is found in the folder that contains a new Photographer ID. This feature effectively allows you to sort the files that are copied or moved according to the criteria included in your template.
Components
The following lists an explanation of the components that can be used to create subfolders and filenames. You should note that some components available for filename creation are not available for folder creation and some components available for folder creation are not available for filename creation.
| 1. | Original File Name (no extension): All of the original filename that is to the left of the last fullstop. |
| 2. | Numeric Contents of Orig Filename (no extension): Same as original file name (no extension) except all non numeric characters are removed. |
| 3. | Original File Extension: All of the original filename that is to the right of the last fullstop. (ie the file extension) |
| 4. | Text Specified by you: You can enter a piece of text to be added to the template. |
| 5. | Incremental file counter: The template will have a number that is incremented each time a file is renamed using this template. |
| 6. | Incremental Batch counter: The template will have a number that is incremented each time a new block of files is renamed using this template. |
| 7. | File last modified date: The template will have the date that the file was last modified appended to it. |
| 8. | File create date: The template will have the date that the file was created appended to it. |
| 9. | Current date: The template will have the current system date appended to it. |
| 10. | Last modified time: The template will have the time that the file was last modified appended to it. |
| 11. | File create time: The template will have the time that the file was created appended to it. |
| 12. | Current time: The template will have the current system time appended to it. |
| 13. | Time_t: The template will have an integer that is the total number of seconds since the 1st January 1970. |
| 14. | Photographer ID: The template will have the photographer id that is defined in the ID.txt file on the removable media. |
| 15. | Card ID: The template will have the card id that is defined in the ID.txt file on the removable media. |
| 16. | Event ID: The template will have the Event ID that is defined in the ID.txt file on the removable media. |
| 17. | User Definable ID 1, 2, & 3. The template will have the user definable id from the ID.txt file on the removable media. |
| 18. | Unique Batch ID. The template will have the unique Batch ID from the ID.txt file on the removable media. This Batch ID is assigned by the application, not a human operator and therefore is unique (ie no other card processed by this application will have the same batch id). |
| 19. | Barcode inputs: information that is typed or scanned into the barcode field on the application main screen. |
| 20. | Operator Selected text fields: text as selected by the operator from the dropdown select control on the application main screen. |
| 21. | Substring from Filename: The template will have have a substring made up from the filename in the manner in which you specify from the following dialog |
When you define a substring, you specify a starting point (the controls on the left side) and a finishing point (the controls on the right side). You can select to parse the filename from left to right or right to left. You may select your start and finish points to be
| 1. | the beginning or end of the file |
| 2. | the nth character in the filename |
| 3. | from/to the first/last occurrence of a character or string of characters that you enter |
You may also specify that the substring finish at a length of n characters from the starting point in the direction you specified.
To test the results of the substring template, type an example of a filename into the 'sample' text box. As you build your template, the result of applying your substring template the the example file will be displayed in the result section next to the sample text box.