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Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a text area (Task comments)that lets
you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with
the OKbutton, and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
to dynamically define metadata as well as data selections to check all occurrences instead of a
fixed one, use the wildcard parameter "?" can be used in all current data and metadata
functions (region(), @(), field(), xmlget()). to identifying the data page or the level. can be
replaced with a question mark (“?”), indicating that a dynamic update of the current data page or
level is required before evaluating the condition.
For example, in a PDF emulation, the format of a selected region would look like this:
region(?,0.59375,2.21875,1.85416,2.51041,KeepCase,NoTrim)
where "?" represents the current page.
Using this expression, if the metadata structure has 3 data pages, then the task willproceed 3
times sequentially, with ?=1 for the first data page, ?=2 for the second and ?=3 for the third and
last data page index from the metadata structure.
In the Metadata tab of the Data Selector, the syntax of the selection is:
GetMeta(ItemDesc[?], 2, Job.Group[?].Document[?].Datapage[?])
where "?" is replaced with the current level index.
Note: For a relative position, the string has to be edited manually.
Metadata Sequencer
Although the Metadata Sequencer acts as a splitter, the data file itself remains untouched, as
neither the data nor the metadata are actually being split through this task. With each
sequence, the entire data file still gets carried from one task to another. Metadata records are
simply selected / deselected, which has the same effect.
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