Strange thing happening in my flow with grummets

[Robbie]

In pitstop pro my action works perfectly. I drop my file there and put my grummets with a space of 300 mm in between.
Now im trying to do the same in switch with the same action in the background but switch is is placing the grummets ride next to each other without the 300 mm in between.

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the rest off the flow and action is working.
Anybody know what's wrong?

[magnussandstrom]

Could you share your Action?

[Robbie]

I think I found the problem. the variable in the variables set was incorrect. I changed the meta tags there and now it's doing what I want.

[Robbie]

I thought i find it but still strange thing is happening. When i drop a file in the imput im filling in that the gromets need to go every 400mm. If i run the flow in normal Pitstop pro it does it perfectly. but in switch the grommets are places not at 400 mm but about 200 mm

[Robbie]

Still having problems with this in switch. When I run the action in pitstop pro everything is fine but in switch it not.
Is there a way to pauze the flow until everything else is done and then put the grummets (ore other way to fix this)

[JimmyHartington]

Have you set the units to Milimeters in the Pitstop Server Configurator?

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[Robbie]

Yes everything is in mm. but still it puts the grummets on the wrong space. I put in 300 mm between the grummets but he places them round 150mm (see exemple)

[freddyp]

In your Action List you define the distance between the grommets as a variable. What is the definition of the variable? And what is the input value for the variable?

[Robbie]

its the distance between the grommets in mm, imput is done also in mm so 300 mm ore 400 mm ore 500 mm and so one What ever the customer wants.
Again in pitstop pro it works fine but in switch the distances is not correct. In the expampel the distance input was 300 mm

[freddyp]

You did not answer my question.

Your action list uses the variables [Afstand ringen 10% horizontaal] and [Afstand ringen 10% vertikaal]. How is that variable defined and where does the value for that variable come from (metadata, private data, file name, database, ...)?

[Robbie]

That is metadata coming from manual imput in switch

[freddyp]

You only answered the second part of my question.

What is the definition of the variable in the variable set?

[Robbie]

This you mean?

[freddyp]

This is what I meant.

This cannot be correct because this variable must be a "Length" and not a "Number". When choosing "Length" you will also see that you can choose the units of the value that you pick up from the Metadata, in your case "Millimeters" of course.

Side note: you can make the Path in your Metadata variable a bit shorter by writing it like this "//field[tag='Afstand ringen 10% horizontaal']/value"

[Robbie]

Thanks, i changed it and yes succes.. now i can kick the guys who installed everything for me

This is what I meant.

This cannot be correct because this variable must be a "Length" and not a "Number". When choosing "Length" you will also see that you can choose the units of the value that you pick up from the Metadata, in your case "Millimeters" of course.

Side note: you can make the Path in your Metadata variable a bit shorter by writing it like this "//field[tag='Afstand ringen 10% horizontaal']/value"