New features and functionality
Documentation feature
You can now easily generate an HTML page with all information about the flow:
- Flow information (such as the name and the description, creation date)
- flow image (as shown on the canvas)
- properties of all elements in the flow
Screenshot:
To generate flow documentation
- In the flows pane, select the flow for which you want to generate the documentation.
- Do one of the following:
- In the toolbar at the top of the screen, click Document Flow
- In the Flows pane, click
and select Documentation
- In the Flows pane, right-click and select Documentation
- From the menu, select Flow > Documentation
The flow documentation is generated and shown immediately in your default browser. It provides you with details of the flow itself.
Note that you can click the elements in the flow image, to see the corresponding properties. The arrow allows you to return to the top of the HTML page.
HTTP(S) request
This new communication tool allows users to upload and download files and folders to and from an HTTP server. HTTP request is a processor that for each incoming job executes an HTTP or HTTPS request.
Thus the incoming job is a request trigger and it can be used to define the request specification: URL, authentication data, request parameters, file to upload, etc. The protocol type (HTTP or HTTPS) is automatically detected from the URL: if the URL starts with “https://”, HTTPS is used, otherwise HTTP is used.
The server responds to the request by sending something back: an HTML source, JSON or XML data, or a file that is downloaded. The tool provides properties to manipulate this server response. The server response is always saved as a file and the tool can inject this file into the flow as a new job, attach it as metadata dataset to the incoming job or assemble it into a job folder together with the incoming job.
Support for the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol
From now on, you can connect Switch to the mail server using the TLS protocol. The Mail send preference "Server requires secure connection (SSL)" has been renamed to "Encrypt connection" and has three options:
- No encryption
- TLS
- SSL
New property in Mail receive
The Mail receive tool has an extra property: "Convert to plain text". This option allows you to save the email message either as HTML or as text (before it was always saved as a text file).
Extra property “Width” for FTP send, Archive Hierarchy and output folders
This property allows you to specify the length of the version number of duplicate output files. For example, if you set Width to "5", the (incremental) version number will consist of 5 digits (e.g. Job_00001.pdf). Leading zeros are added as required. This can be handy when you want to sort the output files.
New authentication method for SFTP
A new authentication method for logging on to an (S)FTP server through FTP send and FTP receive has been implemented; you can now use either user name and password or a "public key".
Other changes
- Two new variables are available for use in Switch (Job group)
- Job.UserFullName
- Job.UserEmail
- The Hold Job properties "Unit" and "Delay" have in certain cases been renamed to "Retry After" and "Retry Unit", to avoid confusion.
- The logging preferences have been improved, i.e. the option Log to text file is replaced with Log to CSV file. This means that, if this option is turned on, log messages are now stored in CSV files, instead of comma-separated text files; you can now also indicate which delimiter to use and where to store the files
- ODBC connection: Added new preference 'Encode binary data' as a child for the property 'Binary data in opaque dataset”.
- It is now possible, to use script expressions in Assemble Job -> Scheme = Custom -> Job identifier
- FTP send tool allows to be used without a password
Support for new OS
- Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) is now fully supported
Upgraded Configurators
- Support Adobe CC 2014
- 64-bit support for Adobe Illustrator
- 64-bit support for Adobe InDesign
- WoodWing 9.2
- EFI Fiery 6
- Callas pdfToolbox 7 Compare
The latest version of those configurators has been included in the Installer of Switch 12 update 3.
New Configurators
Global Vision
“With the BarProof configurator for Enfocus Switch, we are providing further automation capabilities to Enfocus Switch users to verify barcodes within PDF files and proofs as part of their prepress quality control while reducing overall inspection times.” Reuben Malz, President, Global Vision
Bugfixes
We have fixed a lot of bugs in this update. See the full list below.
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Number |
Description |
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Bug 5310 |
FTP Send tool allow no password |
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Bug 25521 |
Unreachable folders do not generate an email alert with certain settings |
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Bug 25570 |
View of files in folder does not refresh |
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Bug 25979 |
Variables panel: panel too large when having a lot of condition |
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Bug 26209 |
The "Define text with variables" dialog may have extremely big width depending on sample value |
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Bug 26244 |
Traffic Light Connection properties are reset when reloading Script Package |
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Bug 27411 |
Email info map can't get most variables |
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Bug 28152 |
Include the merge module for Switch64bitHelper into Switch installer |
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Bug 28170 |
Job Dismantles doesn't remember spaces at the beginning of a filename when remembering hierarchy |
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Bug 28460 |
Rename job and assemble job are really slow when UserGlobalData.xml is large |
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Bug 28514 |
Variable sets with the same name 'xxx' are found |
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Bug 28509 / 31957 |
Switch can fail to get some Switch variables if SwitchClient is requesting lots of variables at the same time |
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Bug 29457 |
Receive Email issue |
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Bug 29526 |
Inject job tool will inject a job when you activate the flow after the time of day window set in the properties |
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Bug 29528 |
Cleanup Application Data will cleanup Job tickets from Jobs in the Problem Jobs folder if the timeout has passed |
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Bug 29620 |
Switch Server on Windows doesn't cleanup subfolders if they only contain hidden mac system files |
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Bug 29683 |
Cannot read metadata for this file |
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Bug 29736 / 30070 |
Sample value is sometimes not filled in |
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Bug 29884 |
The condition with variables panel doesn’t get a scroll bar when having lots of conditions |
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Bug 29885 |
Checkpoint backing folder path is empty; reactivate the flow |
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Bug 29924 |
Job.FailMessage variable is not filled in when the job is moved to the problem jobs because Switch terminated the script |
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Bug 30010 |
Finder info is lost when copying files into flow by drag-and-drop to Designer canvas |
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Bug 30031 |
The Connection variables are not filled in correctly |
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Bug 30038 |
The XMP location path automatically created by Switch is wrong in a specific situation |
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Bug 30039 |
Multiline text returned as single string in s.getPropertyValueList() |
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Bug 30070 |
Sample values for conditions and variables are not always available |
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Bug 30145 |
The hold job timer is reset when deactivating and reactivating a flow |
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Bug 30184 |
Switch caches the configurator property values when there is a 'load from library' functionality and this causes problems when choosing a value via variables or script expressions. |
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Bug 30309 |
Switch creates datasets with identical internal names in the Mail Receive when the application data cleanup happens. |
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Bug 30356 |
Jobs appearing and disappearing in SwitchClient |
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Bug 30368 |
Make the properties of the Release condition on the hold job a bit more clear |
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Bug 30438 |
Some users cannot connect to server: "Active directory bind error 10022: [10022] Invalid argument" |
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Bug 30440 |
The tool to create XML location paths doesn't show CDATA. |
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Bug 30525 |
Failed to uncompressing file or folder: library failed to process the file |
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Bug 30941 |
Not possible to choose to give in a regular expression in show if parent matches when the parent is a dropdown list |
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Bug 30968 |
Crash when catching GException |
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Bug 31013 |
Remote designer crashes when loading which flows should be selected |
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Bug 31017 |
Commands for copy and paste don't work in Search Window of Switch Client |
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Bug 31034 |
Connection.Email, Job.UserFullName and Job.UserEmail is empty when using an Active Directory user |
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Bug 31051 |
Scripting: e.copy() should return an error code or throw an exception |
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Bug 31065 |
Improve the update speed of the Jobs pane and the folder counters |
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Bug 31108 |
Switch can't create a folder structure of two levels via FTP send |
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Bug 31124 |
Ok button to send jobs is available when it shouldn't in a specific situation |
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Bug 31126 |
File count not being updated in folders |
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Bug 31195 |
The automatic exported XML reports in Switch 12 are 5 times bigger compared to Switch 11 |
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Bug 31303 |
Switch is creating a lot of temp files and these temp files are causing Switch to crash |
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Bug 31361 |
Scripting: d.mkdirs() doesn't work on an UNC path |
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Bug 31376 |
Property for leading zero's when duplicate files arrive in an end folder |
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Bug 31378 |
Allow a job to be sent if a metadata field needs to have a certain data format and the field is not required |
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Bug 31447 |
UNPACK - metadata info gone when having "&" in value field |
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Bug 31474 / 6654 |
File type for folders is sometimes wrong in SwitchClient How should a folder job be shown in SwitchClient |
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Bug 31566 |
Flow with traffic light hanging, not at the connection itself |
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Bug 31575 / 31755 |
Switch Designer crashes when choosing a folder with a Japanese name which is a subfolder of a folder with a Japanese name Switch Designer crash when the jobs pane fetches the info from a path with ä in 2 different places |
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Bug 31625 |
SwitchProxy creates corrupted files when the file transfer is cancelled |
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Bug 31659 |
Switch 12 is not compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 |
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Bug 31676 |
Crash reporter is started but not visible when running Switch as a Windows Service and the service crashes |
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Bug 31705 |
Copy recycle bin configurator keeps auto managed folder in the origin flow |
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Bug 31752 |
Out of range error triggered in Scripting API |
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Bug 31776 |
Child properties are not shown if parent is set via "Condition with variables" editor |
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Bug 31809 |
Local designer hangs when using Choose folder on Mavericks |
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Bug 31834 |
What is seen as an external process in Switch? |
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Bug 31844 |
Memory leak in Designer when a big folder is active in the jobs pane |
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Bug 31845 |
SwitchClient crash on network issue |
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Bug 31865 |
Load from library is not working in SwitchScripter |
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Bug 31867 |
Problems with mounted shares |
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Bug 31870 |
Switch Variable Stats.PageLabels has weird icons/font |
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Bug 31902 |
"Duplicates" should be a subproperty of "Strip unique name" in the Assemble job |
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Bug 32001 |
SwitchClient crashes on drawing jobs pixmaps |
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Bug 32068 |
Issue when importing a flow when the script is available on disk |
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Bug 32094 |
Switch Designer locks up when retrying problem jobs |
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Bug 32188 |
Numbers of files are different on Canvas and in Jobs pane |
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Bug 32244 |
Crash in Mail send tool |
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Bug 32259 |
Browse FTP is not working when you are using an FTP proxy |
