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Setting up a simple destination folder
There are two ways to specify a folder for all created files:
• Type in a path (file location) on the Destination folder line.
• Click the folder icon just beside the destination folder line, browse your way to a
folder and select it.
Using path variables
If you need more advanced options, for example if you need to store dif-
ferent batches in different folders, you need to use the path variables,
available on the pop-up to the right of the folder icon.
Variables are text strings enclosed in brackets (for example “<Group
Path>”) that appear on the Destination folder line. You can type these
variables yourself, but usually it makes much more sense to select them
from the pop-up.
When you run the batch, the variables are replaced by folder names. Exact
details follow later in this text.
The specified folders are created automatically if they don’t exist.
You can use more than one variable on the line, to create very advanced
automatic file paths. Then the order of the variables on the line is very im-
portant since each added item will represent a subfolder inside the previ-
ous folder.
When you add variables to the Destination path, they will appear just after
the insertion point, just as when you type text. Hence, adding a variable is
done as follows:
1. Click at the position on the Destination folder line where you want the
variable added.
A blinking insertion point cursor appears.
2. Select the desired variable from the pop-up menu invoked by clicking the
arrow button to the right of the Destination folder line.
Please note that to completely replace the existing text with a variable, you can just select
all text and then select the variable from the pop-up menu.