To begin Smart Preflight you need to start by defining your variables. These are saved within a Variable Set which is selected using the Manage Variable Set dialog box. Variables within the Variable Set can then be used in your Preflight Profiles or Action Lists and applied to different checks or corrections when Variable Names is turned on for that preflight check or correction. You will probably need only one Variable Set for your installation, but you can create more if necessary.
PitStop Server uses XML/JDF job data to drive the Smart Preflight processing. As Switch does not support the Job Ticket type of variables, you can use Switch's job information as a data source (and in particular Switch's metadata variables) instead of the Job Ticket variables.
Before building a variable set, you need to decide which Job values will be used and what functions they will affect.