Separate PS files based on field name?

[Jay]

Hey guys,

Going to try and explain this the best I can..

A client of mine has some certificates they want me to run every month. There's different ranks (silver, bronze, etc) which correlate to different paper. Clearly, when the new files come up, I have to switch paper, which means different production files.

The CSV file is set up like this:

Name|Rank|Year

What I'm curious about is if XMPie can create a separate production file for each rank from a single file in just one merge. Instead of output.ps, I'd get bronze.ps, gold.ps, or silver.ps depending on when the field changes. This is, of course, assuming the CSV file is set up correctly with all the data sorted accordingly.

Thoughts?

Jay

[couch]

There is a feature called dynamic media selection which enables you to change paper type (tray) automatically based on some database logic. How you use this feature is dependent on the rip/printer you use and what output type you choose to produce.

There is more information on dynamic media selection:

* in the user guides

* in technote 0019 from http://info.xmpie.com

* in the xmpie support portal knowledgebase

If dynamic media selection is not feasibile for you, then you have two choices:

1) if you have uProduce or uPlan, you can use a sql query or plan filter to select the different groups of recipients to create three separate output files so you can change the stock for each set separately.

2) if you only have uDirect, then you need to presort your data into 3 separate files and process each separately.