Variables

Which variables are available depends on the steps your import profile contains. Some steps even allow you to rename the variables they create.

The following variables are always available:

Variable	Description
NAME	The pictures original name
PDATE	The date the picture was shot
PTIME	The time the picture was shot
NUM	The pictures number
NUMF	The pictures number within it's folder
DATE	The actual date
TIME	The actual time
RESX	The pictures width (pixel)
RESY	The pictures height (pixel)
EXT	The pictures filetype
FILESIZE	The pictures size (bytes)
SOURCEPATH	The complete path of the image on the source
EXIF:xyz	EXIF Field Nr. xyz
EXIFTOOL:xyz	EXIFTOOL Field xyz
CBLANK	Conditional blank.
CBLANKR	Conditional blank, right side
CBLANKL	Conditional blank, left side
NUMBEROFPICS	The amount of images to be imported
NUMI	The number of imports done with a profile
FIRSTIMAGE	The name of the first image to be imported
LASTIMAGE	The name of the last image to be imported
SAVEDPATH	Tha name of the last folder that has been created

The variables have to be enclosed in brackets (<...>):

This setting will create folders named by the date the pictures were shot and a keyword.
A group number will be appended to the pictures name to group pictures which are shot within
a certain time span.

Subfolders

This would create a folder named by the first entered keyword.
Within this folder, there will be created subfolders for each date pictures where shot, and within these subfolders there will be created more subfolders for each group of pictures:

Formatting of date/time and numeric variables

Just returns the year in four digits.

Just returns the year and the month.

Note: this way, you could use <PDATE> to output just the pictures time, if you only use time-specific formatters (see below). This makes the variables <TIME> and <PTIME> useless.

Some date, time and numeric formats:

	Date: (works for <PDATE> and <DATE>)
	y     - Month and year: February 2008
	yy    -	The year in two digits: 08
	yyyy  - The year in four digits: 2008
	M     - Day and month: 27 February
	MM    - The month as a number: 02 
	MMM   - The month in three letters: Feb
	MMMM  - The month completely: February
	dd    - The day as number: 27
	ddd   - The day in two letters: We
	dddd  - The day completely: Wednesday
	
	Time: (works for <PDATE> and <DATE>)
	hh    - The hour in two digits, 01 - 12
	HH    - The hour in two digits, but in 24-hours format: 00 - 23
	mm    - The minute in two digits
	ss    - The second in two digits
	t     - The time without seconds
	T     - The time with seconds	
	
	Numbers: (works for <NUM>, <NUMF>, <RESX>, <RESY>, <TGROUP>, <TGROUPPICTURE>)
	0     - Just the number
	00    - The number in two digits
	000   - The number in three digits
	0000  - The number in four digits
	 

A complete list of all format specifiers can be found here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

Cutting single characters or character ranges

The variable <NAME> usually return the original name of a picture. This could be DSC_1234.JPG for example. Let's say, we don't want to have the prefix DSC_ anymore:

We can easily cut the first 4 characters from our pictures name:
<NAME:|5->

If we want to keep the DSC_, but want to get rid of the numbers:
<NAME:|-4>

We could cut everything but the _:
<NAME:|4>

Or we could cut everything but a range from the middle: SC_12
<NAME:|2-6>

Conditional blanks

Example:
We want to write the filename, a keyword and a groupname into a arbitrary
EXIF field. We're using the following string:
<PNAME><ASK><PGROUPNAME>

If all 3 variables contain a value, we will get something like this:

DSC_1234.JPGHolidaysDay1

DSC_1234.JPG  Day1   (notice: 2 blanks between JPG and Day)

DSC_1234.JPG Day1

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