Specifications

Metadata in job folder asset
The asset (which is always a job folder) is placed in one of the pickup tool’s input folders and
the metadata source (which is always a single file) resides inside the job folder. The pickup tool
provides flow element properties for locating the metadata source within the job folder (nesting
level and filename pattern).
The pickup tool waits until the job folder has fully arrived and then performs the following steps:
Locate the metadata source; if none is found the next two steps are skipped.
• 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).
• Move the job folder asset to the output folder.
Note that the metadata source is not removed in this case.
DescriptionProperty
File filter that determines which of the files in the job folder represents
the metadata; files are scanned starting at the topmost nesting level (at
Metadata file filters
each level the scan order is arbitrary); the file filter is evaluated in the
context of each file and the first file that matches is used as metadata
source
The number of nesting levels in which to look for the metadata; "1" means
the topmost level only
Search depth
Metadata refers to asset
The metadata source (which is always a single file) is placed in one of the pickup tool’s input
folders and it contains a reference to the asset (which may be a file or a job folder) in some other
location accessible through the file system. Thus the asset itself is never directly placed in a flow
input folder.
The pickup tool provides flow element properties for locating the asset reference inside the
metadata source (a location path) and for determining whether the original copy of the asset
should be removed or not.
When the pickup tool detects an incoming file, it expects it to be a metadata source and it
performs the following steps:
• Locate the asset reference in the metadata source, locate the asset, and ensure that it is
readable. If any of these steps fail, report an error and quit.
• 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 (which in fact is the metadata source’s
job ticket) under the dataset name specified through a flow element property for the pickup
tool (replacing any existing association with the same name).
• Copy or move (depending on the property settings) the asset from its original location to the
output folder.
• Remove the metadata source.
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