Specifications

Default
dataset name
Data modelPickup toolSource
Professional configurator (with XML
report); then XML pickup
LogOpaqueAny configurator with outgoing traffic
light connections (set the "carry this type
of files" property to "data with log")
Text log or PDF
preflight report
Pickup mechanisms
The metadata pickup tools (XML pickup, JDF pickup, XMP pickup) allow associating metadata from
various sources as a metadata dataset with a job’s internal job ticket. The tools support several
distinct mechanisms to locate the metadata source and its corresponding asset, as described in
the following subsections.
Terminology
• Metadata source: the file (or sometimes the portion of a file) that contains the metadata to
be picked up.
• Asset: the file or job folder that is being described by the metadata and that will be moved
along in the flow after its internal job ticket has picked up the metadata.
• Pickup mode: a particular mechanism/algorithm to locate the metadata source and its
corresponding asset.
Metadata alongside asset
The metadata source (which is always a single file) and the corresponding asset (which may be
a file or a job folder) are both placed in one of the pickup tool’s input folders (the same folder
or a different one) at the top level (that is, immediately under the input folder). Both have the
same name but a different filename extension. The supported filename extensions are defined
through flow element properties for the pickup tool.
The pickup tool waits until both the asset and the metadata source have arrived and then
performs the following steps:
• Create a new metadata dataset with a copy of the metadata source as its backing file.
• Associate this dataset with the asset’s internal job ticket under the dataset name specified
through a flow element property for the pickup tool (replacing any existing association with
the same name).
• Remove the metadata source.
• Move the asset to the output folder.
DescriptionProperty
One or more file types or filename extensions that are recognized as
metadata files
Metadata filename
pattern
The time delay after which an incoming metadata source or an incoming
asset is considered orphaned because it can’t be matched to a counterpart
Orphan timeout
(minutes)
Orphaned jobs are moved to the problem jobs folder
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