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Hello,
As a newbee in manipulating xml files and data, i'm looking correct ways to use XML Pickup and Inject Job in sw 13 up1.

For example, in a folder I have pdf files and xml files name like this:
12345_aaaaaaa.pdf
23456_bbbbbbbbb.pdf
56789_ccccc.pdf
and
12345_zzzzz.xml
23456_xxx.xml
56789_yyyyyyyy.xml

Informations about the pdf files are stored in the xml files matching the first 5 numbers in their names.

My goal is to remame the pdf files with informations (like name and date) that are in fields <Agency> and <IssueDate> of the matching xml file.
For example obtain pdf: 12345_MyAgency_2017-03-05.pdf with datas from the xml 12345_zzzzz.xml in the fields <Agency>MyAgency</Agency> and <Issuedate>2017-03-05</IssueDate>

I think is possible standard function XML Pickup and Inject Job, but I don't know how to retreive information about xml files.

Many many Thanks for your help and advices.

Thierry.

No Inject needed, just XML pickup and Rename. Just do an XML pickup with metadata alongside asset and give it a matching property like segment 1-5 (or everything before the _) and a wildcard. I don't have Switch anymore but it should be something like [job.name segment 1-5]_* that should match those two files. Once the XML is picked up, you can pass the PDF through a rename and use dataset variables to rename it.

Hello Gabrielp,

Thanks for your help.
Your method is ok, it works !

In fact, I keep the radical of the two files (xml and pdf) with job.nameproper before "_", so the xml pickup is active as it sees the 2 files with the same name in folder, and now I can easyly take values in fields of dataset xml to re-compose my new names.
Once again, many, many thanks.

Thierry.