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We can use the Supersede utility to move the earlier revisions to an Archived folder by configuring the following rule in a .supersede-config file in the 📁P:\Projects\P123 folder:

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{
  "Copy": {
    "Enabled": true,
    "Path": "..\\Current"
  },
  "Supersede": {
    "Enabled": true,
    "Mode": "Move",
    "Path": "..\\Superseded"
  },
  "Rules": [
    {
      "Pattern": "(?<SheetNumber>.+) - (?<SheetName>.+) \\((?<Revision>.+)\\)",
      "Extensions": [ ".pdf" ],
      "Supersede": {
        "MatchFields": ["SheetNumber"]
      }
    },
    {
      "Pattern": "(?<SheetNumber>.+) \\((?<Revision>.+)\\)",
      "Extensions": [ ".dwg" ],
      "Supersede": {
        "MatchFields": ["SheetNumber"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Overriding configuration for a specific folder

The Supersede utility supports folder specific configuration in .supersede-config files. The utility will combine all of the relevant configuration files for each file it processes.

This allows you to specify some global default behaviour and rules in the global Supersede.json configuration file, and then in a folder specific .supersede-config file you can simply add or override the specific parts that are different for that folder.

For example, consider the following global Supersede.json configuration:

{
  "Supersede": {
    "Copy": {
      "Enabled": true,
      "Path": "..\\Current"
    },
    "Supersede": {
      "Enabled": true,
      "Mode": "Move",
      "Path": "..\\Superseded"
    },
    "Rules": [
      {
        "Pattern": "(?<SheetNumber>.+) - (?<SheetName>.+) \\((?<Revision>.+)\\)",
        "Extensions": [ ".pdf" ],
        "Supersede": {
          "MatchFields": [ "SheetNumber" ]
        }
      },
      {
        "Pattern": "(?<SheetNumber>.+) \\((?<Revision>.+)\\)",
        "Extensions": [ ".dwg" ],
        "Supersede": {
          "MatchFields": [ "SheetNumber" ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

If we have a special project where we don’t want to keep superseded files (because they will remain in their initial location anyway), then we could use a folder specific .supersede-config file with the following configuration:

{
  "Supersede": {
    "Mode": "Delete"
  }
}

Note that in order to override configuration for a specific rule, you need to specify the same Pattern as defined in the global configuration file:

{
  "Rules": [
    {
      "Pattern": "(?<SheetNumber>.+) - (?<SheetName>.+) \\((?<Revision>.+)\\)",
      "Extensions": [ ".pdf" ],
      "Copy": {
        "Path": "..\\PDFs\\Current"
      },
      "Supersede": {
        "MatchFields": ["SheetNumber"],
        "Mode": "Delete"
      }
    }
  ]
}