split metadata into two parts

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:06 am

Hi,

I have a flow which allows the user to enter Order data. In certain cases (brochure for example) this involves the description (and upload) of more than one file.

After entering the data I want each file to become an independent job with the correct metadata associated to it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Ariel

gabrielp · Post by **gabrielp** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:33 pm

Don't have the answer but this shouldn't be too hard to figure out. There are 3 ways that split jobs: Split multi-job, Job dismantler, and Ungroup job. I think you should play with each one and see which suits you. If you find that the solution you like does not carry the metadata, simple export the metadata before the split and then import after it has been split to restore it for each new job.

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:38 pm

That is not the challenge. The metadata has to be split as there are different fields for each file.

I think I found a different approach but if someone knows how to split metadata I'd love to hear,

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:05 pm

I just wrote a script for a customer that does this. Kind of like a "for each" that breaks apart an XML with multiple records into individual single record XMLs.