Automation Made Easy
Deadlines are getting shorter, clients are pushing for faster delivery and there is no room for errors. No matter if you are a large enterprise or a small printhouse, you will benefit from automation capabilities available in FileTrain.
Automation of repetitive task will lower the error rate and speed up your workflow.
Manual workflow usually involves personnel performing a specific task that most likely could be automated. Not only would you save money by automating repetitive tasks, you would most likely also improve the process and find yourself with less errors.
Automation at your fingertips
FileTrain offers extremely flexible and powerful options to automate your workflow. Whether you are a publisher that needs to pick up ads from a FTP server or if you are a picture agency that needs to distribute images, you will find FileTrain extremely useful in your daily work.
Example of automations available in FileTrain
- Hot folder automation
- Automating sorting/routing of files
- FTP – automatically send and receive
- Email - automatically send an receive
- Embedding of metadata such as XMP and IPTC in files
- Conversion between image formats
- Change resolution of images
- Automatic decompression of files
- SQL database connectivity
- Seamless integration to 3rd party PDF preflight tools
- Read/write text/XML files
…and much more
Improve efficiency and lower your costs
FileTrain will give you all the automation that you have always wanted. This has never been available in one single software package at such a low cost.
Workflow examples
There are hundreds (if not thousands) different ways of using FileTrain to fit your needs. Here are some simple examples of how it can be used.
Publisher often gets images via email. To always have a link to the sender of the file, they embed the senders name, email address and the email body into the image metadata (XMP or IPTC).
Ad files are often located on FTP Servers, uploaded by clients. FileTrain can be used to download these ads from your own or external FTP servers and then sort them into an easily understood structure. At the same time it can notify someone internally via an email that new files have been downloaded.
FileTrain 6 redesigned main window
- Completely redesigned interface for viewing processes
- Live view of all processes within all stations
- Smart views – where you can save and create filters if you have many stations
- Handled files view with clear status information
- Queue window with list of all files in queue to be processed
- New history window with date search
- Contextual menu to open input folder(s) respectively output folder(s)
- Greatly improved speed performance for most processes
- Easier to export and import parts of a configuration, e.g you can set up a station locally, export it and send it for import at a remote site
- New drawer windows that allows for easy drag & drop of saved sources, filters and actions into a station
- Description field added in a station
- Advanced scheduling functions
- Option to re-create input folder structure in output folder
- New and greatly improved error handling for actions with customizable no of re-tries before failure.
- Improved image manipulation via ImageMagick and/or ExifTools
- New Action to decompress ZIP files
- New Timer source that performs tasks at a given time which is not related to file or email management
- Read and write support for XMP metadata.
- Threaded communication which allows more than multiple instances of one action to run simultaneously
- Send and recieve via sFTP and FTPs protocols
- Errors can be configured to be set after x numbers of suspensions.
- All configurations are stored in XML format
- Built-in functions to send support cases to Laidback
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