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4.11 Job Information Elements and Job Info Variables
What is meant by job information and where and how can I use this information?
Quite simply, job information is information on a given file. Different types of input have different job
information attached to them. A message received via an Email Input task will have as job information a
reception date and most likely a sender’s name and email address. A file received via a Serial Input task will
have at least a file name and as job information. Job information is contextual information in the sense that it
changes with every job, as PlanetPress Watch/Server receives data files via its various input tasks. It varies
with every job, in other words.
Job information elements are always associated with a given number. In the case of Folder Capture input
tasks, for instance, job information element 1 is associated with the source file’s name, and job information
element 2 is associated with the name of the folder in which the source file is stored.
This information is not part of the data as such, but whenever a job is received, all the available job
information elements are stored in the form of variables. Job information element 1 is stored in job info
variable 1 (or %1), job information element 2 is stored in job info variable 2 (or %2), and so forth.
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