Known variables

Switch offers a library of variables organized in groups, as listed in the table below. Follow the links in the first column in this table for a list of variables in each group, with corresponding technical reference information.

A description for each variable is displayed in the property editors for defining text with variables and defining a condition with variables. This description is not repeated in the help topics.

Group

Type of information

Source

Doc

Title, keywords, author(s), copyright terms

Embedded metadata: XMP

Email

Components of the email message through which this job was originally delivered

Mail receive flow element

Image

Resolution, orientation, color mode

Embedded metadata: EXIF (TIFF tags)

IPTC

Contact, location, headline, instructions

Embedded metadata: IPTC

Job

Filename, size, email info, hierarchy info, fail info, origin

File system, internal job ticket

Metadata

Arbitrary field in any dataset associated with the job

External metadata or embedded metadata

Photo

Exposure time, aperture, focus, flash

Embedded metadata: EXIF (EXIF tags)

Stats

File format, number of pages, page labels, colorants

File format & contents

Switch

Flow element name, date/time, counter

Flow definition, system environment

Connection Client connection attributes like user name, IP, user role Switch settings, system environment