Switch 12 update 3 release notes

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.

Number	Description
Bug 5310	FTP Send tool allow no password
Bug 25521	Unreachable folders do not generate an email alert with certain settings
Bug 25570	View of files in folder does not refresh
Bug 25979	Variables panel: panel too large when having a lot of condition
Bug 26209	The "Define text with variables" dialog may have extremely big width depending on sample value
Bug 26244	Traffic Light Connection properties are reset when reloading Script Package
Bug 27411	Email info map can't get most variables
Bug 28152	Include the merge module for Switch64bitHelper into Switch installer
Bug 28170	Job Dismantles doesn't remember spaces at the beginning of a filename when remembering hierarchy
Bug 28460	Rename job and assemble job are really slow when UserGlobalData.xml is large
Bug 28514	Variable sets with the same name 'xxx' are found
Bug 28509 / 31957	Switch can fail to get some Switch variables if SwitchClient is requesting lots of variables at the same time
Bug 29457	Receive Email issue
Bug 29526	Inject job tool will inject a job when you activate the flow after the time of day window set in the properties
Bug 29528	Cleanup Application Data will cleanup Job tickets from Jobs in the Problem Jobs folder if the timeout has passed
Bug 29620	Switch Server on Windows doesn't cleanup subfolders if they only contain hidden mac system files
Bug 29683	Cannot read metadata for this file
Bug 29736 / 30070	Sample value is sometimes not filled in
Bug 29884	The condition with variables panel doesn’t get a scroll bar when having lots of conditions
Bug 29885	Checkpoint backing folder path is empty; reactivate the flow
Bug 29924	Job.FailMessage variable is not filled in when the job is moved to the problem jobs because Switch terminated the script
Bug 30010	Finder info is lost when copying files into flow by drag-and-drop to Designer canvas
Bug 30031	The Connection variables are not filled in correctly
Bug 30038	The XMP location path automatically created by Switch is wrong in a specific situation
Bug 30039	Multiline text returned as single string in s.getPropertyValueList()
Bug 30070	Sample values for conditions and variables are not always available
Bug 30145	The hold job timer is reset when deactivating and reactivating a flow
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.
Bug 30309	Switch creates datasets with identical internal names in the Mail Receive when the application data cleanup happens.
Bug 30356	Jobs appearing and disappearing in SwitchClient
Bug 30368	Make the properties of the Release condition on the hold job a bit more clear
Bug 30438	Some users cannot connect to server: "Active directory bind error 10022: [10022] Invalid argument"
Bug 30440	The tool to create XML location paths doesn't show CDATA.
Bug 30525	Failed to uncompressing file or folder: library failed to process the file
Bug 30941	Not possible to choose to give in a regular expression in show if parent matches when the parent is a dropdown list
Bug 30968	Crash when catching GException
Bug 31013	Remote designer crashes when loading which flows should be selected
Bug 31017	Commands for copy and paste don't work in Search Window of Switch Client
Bug 31034	Connection.Email, Job.UserFullName and Job.UserEmail is empty when using an Active Directory user
Bug 31051	Scripting: e.copy() should return an error code or throw an exception
Bug 31065	Improve the update speed of the Jobs pane and the folder counters
Bug 31108	Switch can't create a folder structure of two levels via FTP send
Bug 31124	Ok button to send jobs is available when it shouldn't in a specific situation
Bug 31126	File count not being updated in folders
Bug 31195	The automatic exported XML reports in Switch 12 are 5 times bigger compared to Switch 11
Bug 31303	Switch is creating a lot of temp files and these temp files are causing Switch to crash
Bug 31361	Scripting: d.mkdirs() doesn't work on an UNC path
Bug 31376	Property for leading zero's when duplicate files arrive in an end folder
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
Bug 31447	UNPACK - metadata info gone when having "&" in value field
Bug 31474 / 6654	File type for folders is sometimes wrong in SwitchClient How should a folder job be shown in SwitchClient
Bug 31566	Flow with traffic light hanging, not at the connection itself
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
Bug 31625	SwitchProxy creates corrupted files when the file transfer is cancelled
Bug 31659	Switch 12 is not compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud 2014
Bug 31676	Crash reporter is started but not visible when running Switch as a Windows Service and the service crashes
Bug 31705	Copy recycle bin configurator keeps auto managed folder in the origin flow
Bug 31752	Out of range error triggered in Scripting API
Bug 31776	Child properties are not shown if parent is set via "Condition with variables" editor
Bug 31809	Local designer hangs when using Choose folder on Mavericks
Bug 31834	What is seen as an external process in Switch?
Bug 31844	Memory leak in Designer when a big folder is active in the jobs pane
Bug 31845	SwitchClient crash on network issue
Bug 31865	Load from library is not working in SwitchScripter
Bug 31867	Problems with mounted shares
Bug 31870	Switch Variable Stats.PageLabels has weird icons/font
Bug 31902	"Duplicates" should be a subproperty of "Strip unique name" in the Assemble job
Bug 32001	SwitchClient crashes on drawing jobs pixmaps
Bug 32068	Issue when importing a flow when the script is available on disk
Bug 32094	Switch Designer locks up when retrying problem jobs
Bug 32188	Numbers of files are different on Canvas and in Jobs pane
Bug 32244	Crash in Mail send tool
Bug 32259	Browse FTP is not working when you are using an FTP proxy