Ungroup job

Ungroup job is a processor that, in combination with assemble job, provides a way to keep track of files that belong together while they are being processed separately.

Ungroup job injects all files from a job folder into the flow as separate jobs. After these files have been processed through the flow (and possibly were renamed), assemble job can reassemble them into a new job folder with a structure similar to the original one, with provisions for injecting additional files and for dealing with incomplete jobs or orphaned files.

Keywords

Keywords can be used with the search function above the Elements pane.

The keywords for the Ungroup job element are:

• hierarchy
• folder
• subfolder
• ungroup
• group
• assemble
• disassemble

Usage examples

• Split a multi-page PDF file in separate pages; process each page separately through one or more applications that can deal only with a single page at a time; recombine the pages in a job folder; merge the pages into a single PDF file.

• Receive a job folder that contains a nested structure of related files; disassemble the folder into separate files; sort the files on file type and put them through some different process depending on the file type; re-assemble the files into a job folder with a structure that is identical to the incoming job folder.

Connections

Ungroup job allows only a single outgoing connection.

Properties

Private data

Ungroup job stores the following information in the internal job ticket for each injected job file, for use by assemble job: