Name a hot folder for each press

The hot folder is the folder your RIP watches. Studio writes a press's print file into it, and does nothing else near the press. You name one for each press, under Integrations, on the RIP's card.

The rules

• One for each press. Two presses cannot share a hot folder, because a hot folder feeds one queue. A press whose connector would write into a folder another press has is stopped on the hand-over, with the folder named.
• No folder, no put. A press with no hot folder named has a connector with nowhere to write, and a put on it is a stop. A press with no folder of its own is never handed another press's.
• Studio never makes a folder on its own. The connector writes into a folder that is there.

Choose a folder the connector sees

A browser cannot see your disks, so the connector looks for you. Under each press's box, while you are editing:

• Choose a folder the connector sees is a list, grouped by where it was found, with how old the list is. Choosing only fills the box. Saving then checks it as it always did.
• Make a new folder… makes one folder inside any folder in the list. The name starts as the press's name. It creates only: nothing is renamed, moved or deleted.
• Look in another folder… adds a folder for that connector to look in.

What the connector looks in

It looks where you point it, and in the neighbours of the hot folders you have already set: the folder each set hot folder sits in, listed one level down. Never a whole drive, and never a drive or a share it is connected to by itself. It goes at most two levels below a folder you named, 60 folders in each and 200 in all, and never through a link or a junction. A folder named for another press, or held by another box, is greyed in the list, with whose it is.

It will not offer your Windows folder, Program Files, the recycle bin, system folders, or a user's own folder or its application data. If you need one of those, name the hot folder by typing it.

How to use it

1. A supervisor opens Integrations, and the RIP's card.
2. Edit a press. Under its box, choose a folder the connector sees, or make a new one.
3. Save. Studio checks that no other press has it.
4. Put a job on the press. The hand-over reads The hot folder Integrations names for the press.

The picker has been tried against a stand-in press, which lists made-up folders. We set it up with you and check it on your own network.