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That's basically what the HP SmartStream Designer VDP Configurator does. Is there something you want to do that can't be handled by the configurator?

You'll probably want to focus on sorting the XML files based on some kind of information inside them. To do this I'd look at two elements in Switch: 1. Assemble Job - Assemble job can group files based on file name patterns, or numbers in files which should encapsulate orders with the series you lis...

How are the jobs coming into Switch? Is there some type of metadata file (i.e. XML) that has all the information about these files that comes with the PDF?

Maybe a silly question, but is the outgoing connection(s) from the script set up as a stop light connection with a valid data connection? That undefined message could possibly be due to the sendToData not being a valid output location. Based on the documentation this should throw an error message, b...

This line doesn't seem right to me: var theDestPath = job.createPathWithName(job.getNameProper(), false) + "." + ext; // create a temp spot to copy You're creating a temp location and then adding an extension to the variable that references the location, so when you send files to that loca...

replace the node index [7] with something unique to that node. For example:

[Metadata.Text:Path="/field-list/field[@Id='spMF_7_3']/value",Dataset="Submit",Model="XML"]

That way the order of the elements doesn't matter.

I know the output to the ganging configurator is a traffic light connection, and you need to have at least one connection coming out that carries types of Data. In the working flow I had I believe I set one connection coming out and set the "Carry jobs of this type" to "Data and Log&q...

Once you have the file opened as a DOM you can use: Document.evalToString() / .evalToNumber() / evalToBoolean() functions to get the data you want: var isbn = doc.evalToString("/Books/Book/Publisher/@ISBN", null); If you search in the Switch Scripter help for "Evaluating XPath" t...

I'm not sure if the HTTP element uses SSL or not, that would be a possible hangup.

If you look at the documentation in the Scripting help for HTTP it shows how to do this in the scripting interface: function jobArrived( s : Switch, job : Job ) { var theHTTP = new HTTP( HTTP.SSL ); theHTTP.authScheme = HTTP.OauthAuth; theHTTP.authorization = "authorization string"; theHTT...

I know the SmartStream Designer Ganging configurator can take a folder of PDF files that are all the same size and gang them based on a selected imposition template (you might need to remove the Source jpegs folder first), but it might be easier to use the Assemble job step to create one large PDF c...

Can you give some more detail about what this Contact Sheet will contain content-wise?

It looks like you're using a spreadsheet or csv file that was converted to XML. Getting specific row/column data in this format can be problematic. It might be easier if you can just pull data directly from the original data source. There are multiple forum threads on pulling data from csv files on ...

The v10 release of the Configurator I have doesn't allow "Single-line text with variables defined" as a setting for Due date method. I'm wondering if this is part of the issue. Can you set that to "Select from calendar" as shown below? DueDate.png I'm also concerned that the conf...

Are you putting that value in the "Select from calendar" field?

Can you post a picture of your configurator settings in this area?

Also, what version of the configurator are you running?