VariablesWhich variables are available depends on the steps your import profile contains. Some steps even allow you to rename the variables they create. The following variables are always available:
The variables have to be enclosed in brackets (<...>):
This setting will create folders named by the date the pictures were shot and a keyword.
SubfoldersWIA-Loader can also create subfolders:
This would create a folder named by the first entered keyword.
Formatting of date/time and numeric variablesThe output of some variables can be customized.The desired format just has to be specified like this example on <PDATE>:
Note: this way, you could use <PDATE> to output just the pictures time, if you only use time-specific formatters (see below). This makes the variables <TIME> and <PTIME> useless. Some date, time and numeric formats: Date: (works for <PDATE> and <DATE>) y - Month and year: February 2008 yy - The year in two digits: 08 yyyy - The year in four digits: 2008 M - Day and month: 27 February MM - The month as a number: 02 MMM - The month in three letters: Feb MMMM - The month completely: February dd - The day as number: 27 ddd - The day in two letters: We dddd - The day completely: Wednesday Time: (works for <PDATE> and <DATE>) hh - The hour in two digits, 01 - 12 HH - The hour in two digits, but in 24-hours format: 00 - 23 mm - The minute in two digits ss - The second in two digits t - The time without seconds T - The time with seconds Numbers: (works for <NUM>, <NUMF>, <RESX>, <RESY>, <TGROUP>, <TGROUPPICTURE>) 0 - Just the number 00 - The number in two digits 000 - The number in three digits 0000 - The number in four digits A complete list of all format specifiers can be found here:
Cutting single characters or character rangesIf you want to use just a part of avariables result for, you can tell WIA-Loader to cut characters from those results.The variable <NAME> usually return the original name of a picture. This could be DSC_1234.JPG for example. Let's say, we don't want to have the prefix DSC_ anymore: We can easily cut the first 4 characters from our pictures name: If we want to keep the DSC_, but want to get rid of the numbers: We could cut everything but the _: Or we could cut everything but a range from the middle: SC_12
Conditional blanksThe variables CBLANK, CBLANKR and CBLANKL are used to insert blanks underthe condition that there are no other blanks next to that position. <CBLANK> for example will only be turned into a blank when there is no other blank before or after it. Example: DSC_1234.JPGHolidaysDay1 Not very good, so we insert blanks: <PNAME> <ASK> <PGROUPNAME> The result looks quite good when all 3 variables contain a value, but what happens if we didn't enter a keyword, and the variable ASK is empty? We would get something like this: DSC_1234.JPG Day1 (notice: 2 blanks between JPG and Day) Better, but we want to reduce the 2 blanks in the middle to a single one. This is where <CBLANK> comes in: <PNAME><CBLANK><ASK><CBLANK><PGROUPNAME> We replace the normal blanks with CBLANK and we'll get the desired result: DSC_1234.JPG Day1 The second CBLANK has not been turned into a blank because it would stand right next to the first one. A CBLANK will only be turned into a blank when there are no other blanks left or right of them. CBLANKL and CBLANKR work similar. The difference is that they only look at one side for another blank, the other side is ignored. © 2008 Patrick Mortara |