Auto Importer Placeholders

Created by Jason Carr, Modified on Thu, 14 Mar at 9:25 AM by Jason Carr

Placeholders can be added to the Title, Artist and Year fields within the Overrides Tab.

%BLANK%	A blank space
%DATETIME%	The date and time
%DATETIME_FILE_LASTMODIFIED%	The modified date and time of the file being imported.
%DAY_OF_WEEK%	The full name of the current day of the week. For example Monday, Friday, Saturday.
%TIME%	The current time in format HH:mm:ss. For example 13:04:52
%TIME_12%	The current time in format hh:mm:ss tt. For example 1:04:52 PM
%MACHINE_NAME%	The Windows PC name running Auto Importer
%DATE%	The current date in format dd-MM-yyyy. For example 05-12-2020
%DATE_US%	The current date in format MM-dd-yyyy. For example 12-05-2020
%YR%	The current year. For example 2020
%TITLE%	The current Title of the item within PlayoutONE before the new item imports.
%ARTIST%	The current Artist of the item within PlayoutONE before the new item imports.
%FILENAME%	The filename of the file being imported. For example The Beatles - Help.wav
%FILENAME_WITHOUT_EXT%	The filename of the file being imported with the extension. For example The Beatles - Help
%UID%	The UID of the item that was chosen or the UID of the item being replaced depending on which Import Method is being used.
%DATEADD%(1,2,3)%	Made up of three parameters 1 = The date property. This can be set to HR for Hour, DA for Day, MO for Month, YR for Year. 2 = The interval. This is a numerical value. Can be positive or negative. 3 = The format to show the calculated value in. For more information on setting date values see DateTime Formats Using example %DATEADD(DA,1,dd-MM-yyyy)% we would be left with the value 06-12-2020 if ran on the 5th December. Using example %DATEADD(MO,1,dd-MM-yyyy)% we would be left with the value 05-01-2021 if ran on the 5th December.