Need to Review or Deliver Outputs on a Rolling Basis? Just Apply the Filter!
Tom Santopoli · 2014
Wouldn’t it be nice if all of the outputs in a deliverable passed QC at exactly the same time and could be submitted for final review all at once, while leaving adequate time for the review to be completed prior to a deadline? Unfortunately, outputs often pass QC at different times and must be submitted for final review on a rolling basis in order to meet deadlines. The task of selecting 50 specific outputs to copy from a folder containing 500 outputs can be very tedious and cumbersome for a lead programmer. There are papers that explain how to copy files from one folder to another, but this paper addresses the issue of selectively copying specific files based on criteria set in a project tracking document. A simple macro called %MFILTER is presented to help make life a little easier for lead programmers as deadlines approach.