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14.4 Export changes

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There seems to be a change to how the export location works in 14.4.

I usually export multiple file types to their own folders within my client folders on google drive. Previously, I would set the export location for one recipe and it would apply across any recipes I was exporting.

With the new update, I need to browse to select the folder individually for each recipe - a time-waster. How can I rectify this process? Surely it makes sense in most workflows to export multiple recipes to a single folder and use the tool to create subfolders within for each file type?

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Will setting the Subfolder field in Recipe Cross Recipe Tokens to Recipe Format (or Recipe Name) get you what you want?

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  • Permanently deleted user

    I kept 14.2 on the 'production' system.  I was ask to provide feedback on the new Export Tool and described how much more work is required to perform the same workflow with the new export tool tab.  Previously, one change applied to all selected recipes with sub-tabs in the Output Recipe tool to override and apply to individual recipes.  The layout of the Output tool tab was more compact than the new export tool tab and easier to use. If the Output Tool Tab was confusing to some, how is the 'Export Cross Recipe Tokens' easier to understand.  It sounds more like an object oriented class than a user-friendly tool.  

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Setting the subfolder in the 'Cross Recipe Tokens' doesn't seem to do anything? Maybe I'm using it incorrectly. 

    To make matters worse, copy paste between fields doesn't work with any smart content, ie 'Recipe name' etc. I'm going to need to downgrade. 

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  • Permanently deleted user

    The Export Cross Recipe Tokens Subfolder field can be set to any token or to a string (e.g. token Recipe Name, or the string 'ThisWorkflowIsHorrible') in which case the subfolder will be the recipe name if token "Recipe Name" is used or the folder ThisWorkflowIsHarder if that is the string value.  Now for the fun part, any and all recipes that you want to utilize the file structure will have to have its own Subfolder value in the Export Location tool set to the token 'Subfolder'. Click on the three dots to the right Export Location to see a list of tokens or start typing Sub and tokens starting with 'Sub' will appear as a selection list. To summarize, the subfolder value is set one time in the Export Cross Recipe Tokens.  Every recipe used for the output structure will have to be set to Subfolder token individually.  This is supposed to be less confusing and better than the old method of setting the ouput folder location one time and unless a recipe has had output properties changed, will write out to the subfolder.  One change to set or unset the output location.

    I tried to cut and paste the values in Export Cross Recipe Tokens but is seems to work only with text and not tokens.  

    Hope this helps.

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