[Request] Ability to group output files into folders named based on the input file used about batch-mockup-smart-object-replacement-photoshop-script HOT 4 CLOSED

So I put on my thinking cap... and realized that it almost already had the capability to do that if you just added a folder paths to the output.filename. The only issue was that the output.filename wasn't taken into consideration when making new directories, so PS wouldn't have known where to put the files. It needed a very small change and now it does!

So now starting from v.1.7 you can do something like this:

var output = {
  path: './_output files',
  format: 'jpg',
  filename: '@input/@mockup - @input', 
};

P.S. v.1.7 updated in the main repository and the standalone example

P.P.S. Having folder paths in output.filename does feel a bit weird, but it was easier to do that than to put the filename keywords into output.path.

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I think you need to draw me like a diagram or something, for me to fully get it.

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Let me see if this helps...

Starting Folder Structure:

_output
input

file 1.jpg
file2.jpg
file3.jpg

templates

template1.psd
template2.psd
template3.psd

Currently, if I set 'output.folders' to true, my output folder would look like

_output

template1

template 1 file 1.jpg
template 1 file 2.jpg
etc...

template2

template 2 file 1.jpg
etc...

My desired output would be the following

_output

file 1

template 1 file 1.jpg
template 2 file 1.jpg
template 3 file 1.jpg

file 2

template 1 file 2.jpg
template 2 file 2.jpg
etc...

Essentially, instead of grouping the output folder based on the 'mockup' or 'template' used, group by the input file used.

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Outstanding! I hadn't thought of using the filename functionality to handle creating folders, as the output.folder property existed. I'll pull the new code and give it ago. Thanks for the update! 👍🏻

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