Viz Channel Branding User Guide
Version 5.1 | Published October 26, 2023 ©
Reading Channel and Date Values from Filenames
If your collected schedule does not contain channel and date values, you can use the schedule’s file name to extract information.
The import/update process can read these two fields from the imported filename when using
To read channel and date from the filename
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Set their mapping to $Filename
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Define the filename format in the Schedule File Name Info parameter in Mapping Settings.
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The file format should contain Y/M/D to represent the year/month/day character location in the file name, and C to represent the character locations of the channel name in the file name.
Characters that do not belong to the channel/date can be written as any character except for Y/M/D/C.
Example
For a filename Channel10_20090627.txt, set Schedule File Name Info to CCCCCCCCC_YYYYMMDD or CCCCCCCCC_YYYYMMDD.txt.