Gradual FullSWITCH 06

FullSWITCH 06, EN, Win, Single license FullSWITCH is ideally placed to help you reclaim your time to be creative and help your customers. It is a robust automation product that is easy to install and use. Like the entry-level LightSWITCH product, FullSWITCH offers file reception through FTP and email, sorting of files based on file type and naming conventions and automatic email notifications to customers.

In addition, FullSWITCH introduces configurators that allow third-party applications such as Adobe Acrobat Distiller or Enfocus PitStop Server to be integrated easily in a flow. Setup and automation of those applications is fully controlled from within FullSWITCH.

All this functionality is driven by the visual flow editor and supported by the robust automation tools that are at the core of all SWITCH products. The visual editor makes it as easy to work with configurators as it is to work with built-in tools. FullSWITCH also offers professional activity logging and job processing statistics to help you locate critical points of the workflow.

Major benefits

- Save costs through increased automation
- Reduce repetitive tasks - free up creative people for creative tasks
- Design flows with the powerful but user-friendly flow editor
- Standardize processes and reduce human errors
- Protect investments in third-party products
- Preserve flexibility to choose best-of-breed technology
- Efficiently manage and maintain automated processes
- Manage complete flow of files through your organization and from/to customers
- Monitor workflows for problems and keep statistics

Easily design and document flows

In FullSWITCH you can edit flows using the user-friendly and extremely flexible flow editor. A designed flow very strongly resembles the flowchart you have probably already drawn up while thinking how to implement workflows in your company.

A definite advantage of this is that it becomes very easy to understand what flows do afterwards; the flow in the visual editor becomes its own documentation! On top of that you can print out flows if you require paper documentation.

Configurators to setup and automate third-party applications

FullSWITCH has an extensive range of built-in tools; key third-party applications such as Adobe Acrobat Distiller, Adobe Photoshop, callas pdfInspektor and Enfocus PitStop Server can seamlessly be included in flows using configurators. All configuration and automation is performed from within FullSWITCH for a consistent and easy user experience.

Run Adobe Photoshop actions on images

Using the Adobe Photoshop configurator, you can open any file that Adobe Photoshop can open and run Photoshop actions on them. This allows color conversions, downsampling, running filters and any other task which can be accomplished using a Photoshop action to be automated using FullSWITCH.

Generate XML or text reports from Enfocus PitStop Server

When you use Enfocus PitStop Server to preflight files, you’re limited to generating preflight reports as PDF files. The PitStop Server configurator in FullSWITCH also offers XML and textual formats for the preflight errors and warnings. These are ideal to generate custom HTML for preflight problems or to log preflight problems in a database or spreadsheet for tracking or analysis.

Built-in tool to transform XML data using XSLT

The built-in XSLT tool is ideal to generate custom HTML preflight reports from the Enfocus PitStop Server and callas pdfInspektor configurators, but of course you can also use it to convert any other XML file into the format you need.

Keep track of all processing information

FullSWITCH is a very user-friendly tool but is built on a professional-grade automation framework. Anything that happens in FullSWITCH is logged; the log view in FullSWITCH offers a detailed overview of all processing information that can be filtered and sorted as you wish.

Spot processing bottlenecks easily

The statistics view in FullSWITCH makes it easy to keep an eye on crucial folders in your flows. In one graphical overview you can spot in which locations files are waiting to long before they are processed.