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I feel like I'm being a numptie but is there a way to have Switch itself create a specific folder structure?

I've got endless Applescripts that do the job, but is there a Switch Flow Element that does the same thing... Hierarchy of somesort?
(NOT using the Scripting Module)

Structure along these lines :

01-PDFs
>High Res
>Low Res
02-Financial

etc...

You can use the "Set hierarchy path" to create the folder structure.

Set "Path segment 1" to "01-PFDs" and "Path segment 2" to "High Res" and pass the files on to an "Archive hierarchy" with the levels of subfolders set to at least 2.

If you pass a file through this flow, the file will be placed in "01-PDFs -> High Res" in case this folder structure already exist, and if it doesn't, Switch will create it.

Indeed, archive of some sort: "Archive hierarchy". The folder structure into which the job is written is defined by the [Job.Hierarchy] variable. So what you have to do is make sure that this variable has the correct elements (01-PDF's;High Res or 01-PDF's;Low Res or 02-Financial etc.). There are two ways to change that variable:
- some elements (folders, mail receive, ftp receive, submit hierarchy, ...) have a property called "Attach hierarchy info".
- the element "Set hierarchy path".

(Well, there are four, because you can also set the hierarchy using a script expression or script)

When the job hits "Archive hierarchy" and there is a path in [Job.Hierarchy] Switch will create that path if not already there, starting from the root of "Archive hierarchy", and put the job there.

Great!

I'll test and report back

Is it possible to invoke the creation of a file structure (as you guys have directed above), WITHOUT inputting a file into Switch?

Say, by a user interaction of some sort.

Or is the only option, to throw a file into Switch to start the process running?

TheCaptain wrote:Or is the only option, to throw a file into Switch to start the process running?

This is the core of how Switch works. You need to move files around to process anything within Switch.

I think if you could use an empty folder as a job, you should be able to use that to submit into a hierarchy giving you what you want. Alternatively, you could drop a dummy file in and have it deleted from the folder (via inject or something). I'm not too familiar with hierarchies, so you may get a better answer from someone else.