Specifications

Select one of the group names in the leftmost list to access the preferences in that group.
Individual properties are displayed and can be edited in a manner similar to those in the
Properties pane; see Working with properties on page 85.
For more information on Preferences, see Preferences on page 184
Working with folders
Working with individual files in Switch is quite straightforward. When files are grouped into
folders (and sometimes in nested folder structures), you need to take the following information
into consideration.
Switch distinguishes between two important concepts related to (and implemented by) folders:
• Subfolder hierarchies provide structure to file submissions and to final processing results by
placing files in appropriately named subfolders (for example, a subfolder for each customer).
• Job folders represent file sets that move along the flow as a single entity, for example a page
layout with its accompanying images and fonts, or the individual pages in a book.
Since both concepts are implemented with regular file system folders, Switch needs a way to
know what it is looking at when it sees a folder. This is accomplished as follows:
• Subfolders in a regular folder are always treated as a job folder; i.e. the subfolder and its
contents are moved along as a single entity.
• Certain flow elements (such as Submit Hierarchy and Archive Hierarchy) have special provisions
to support a mixture of subfolder hierarchies and job folders; these provisions are configured
through the flow element's properties.
Thus the complexity of dealing with both concepts at the same time is limited to those special
flow elements.
Working with subfolders
Submit hierarchy
The "Submit hierarchy" tool (and its sibling FTP receive) can be used to fetch files that are delivered
in a hierarchy of subfolders. The tool looks for files in the nested subfolder structure up to a
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