Using Tokens with Acquire

Acquire enables you to type tokens in any of the metadata fields inside the Acquire forms or Recording Details | New window by adding a "$" directly in the field. Once you add a token to the scheduled recording, when Acquire recording starts, it will replace the token with the appropriate format.

See the following table for descriptions of the tokens available:

Token

Description

$t

Enters a format symbol for Time (in hours and minutes, "HHmm").

$T

Enters a format symbol for Time (in hours, minutes and seconds "HHmmss").

$d

Typing this string enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (short style, two-digit year, month, and day, "yyMMdd").

$D

Enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (longer style, four-digit year, two-digit month, and two-digit day, "yyyyMMdd").

$e

Enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (short style, two-digit month, day and year, " MMddYY").

$E

Enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (longer style, two-digit month, two-digit day, and four-digit year, "MMddYYYY").

$f

Typing this string enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (short style, two-digit day, month, and year, " ddMMYY").

$F

Enters a date of recording using a format symbol for Date (longer style, two-digit day, two-digit month, and four-digit year, "ddMMYYYY").

$w

Enters a format symbol-single, numeric (1-7, starting with Monday=1) day of the week.

$W

Enters a format symbol-an alphabetical abbreviation of the day of the week (for example, Monday=Mon).

$c

Enters a format symbol for the Channel name.

$s

Enters a format symbol for the Source name.