¶ Creating a Move Workflow
Revision date: 02/oct/2024
Software version: 2024.08.00
- In the Navigation menu (left of the screen) click the “WORKFLOWS” module and then on “Workflow Profiles”;
- In the options list area (lower-left corner) click the “Add”
button to configure the workflow;
¶ Output Tab
In this tab fill in the form with the information below:
- Workflow name: enter the name of the new workflow profile;
- Disable workflow checkbox: this option is enabled by default, but if it is disabled the workflow will be unavailable for use anywhere in the system;
Note: the “Workflow Name” field and the “Disable Workflow” checkbox are always visible, regardless of which tab you are working on.
- Operation: select the “Move” option;
- Storage: select, among the existing options, the location of the output file. The options presented here are the storages that were previously configured. See chapter “Adding Storage” for more information;
a. Base path: enter the base path for the output file to be written into. - Add target: click this button to add another target location. New Storage and Base path options will appear for the second target;
- Add fallback: you can specify a fallback target to be used if access to the main targets (particularly network-based ones) fails. In such cases, only local drive storage options are available for fallback.
¶ Clipnaming Tab
In this tab, select from the configured naming templates (chapter “Creating a Naming Template”) which will be used to name the assets generated by the execution of the current workflow;
If the workflow target is a sequence, the “Sequence Clip Naming” tab will be enabled to choose the naming template.
When a naming template is selected, information about the naming template appears, as well as some advanced options, which include:
- Reset counters button: click this button to reset existent counters;
- Reset counters automatically: tick this box to enable the automatic resetting of the counters’ values, for each ingests operation;
- Reset counters on metadata change: tick this box to enable the automatic resetting of the counters’ values when there is a change in metadata.
- Recover on metadata match: resumes the count where it was the last time the workflow was run whenever the other metadata fields match those from previous runs. Great option for incrementing takes of specific episodes and scenes recordings. For example, a workflow was configured with a clipnaming that has the fields “Episode” and “Scene” to be filled in by the operator. Before starting the recording, the “Episode” field was filled with “2” and the “Scene” with 1. When starting the recording, the “Take” field (MAM4PRO default) was automatically filled with 1. After other recordings of other episodes were recorded there was a need to record another take for episode 2, scene 1. When filling in the metadata with this information, the take will resume where it left off, that is, the next recording will take over take 2.
Tip: to delete the selected template, click on the “Clear”
button on the right side of the selection box.
¶ Metadata Tab
In this tab, select from the configured metadata profiles (chapter “Creating a Metadata Profile”) which will be used for the current workflow.
Tip: to delete the selected template, click on the “Clear”
Note: metadata will only be used for filenaming.
¶ Advanced Tab
In this tab, it is possible to define some specific options as we will see below.
¶ Generic
Configure the workflow behavior in the options shown below.
Job:
- Behavior: select between moving all files (media and sidecars), only media, or only sidecars;
- Automatic retries: enter the number of times the workflow will be retried in case of failure. Valid for file-based workflows.
Post Job:
- Delete output on job abort: select to delete artifacts when the operation is aborted;
- Verify checksum: if this option is checked, the copy operation will also perform a checksum verification;
- Generate source checksum: select from a list the type of file you want to generate with the output checksum;
- Run after completion: this option allows running a command/process automatically after finishing the workflow.
a. Process: enter the process to run;
b. Arguments: enter the process arguments.