Jarvee is capable of automatically picking up new posts from a folder so you don’t need to go and create new posts inside it, all you need it to create the content and drop it into a folder. It works really good and its easy to setup so let’s see how you can do this.

You can choose between using a Dropbox folder or a normal folder. Jarvee will add the pictures to your campaign automatically and will detect the new ones and add them as well if you ever decided to add more in the next few days.

Adding a folder that contains your images:

Now we will see how to use the Monitor Folders feature step by step:

1. Go to your campaign, click on What To Publish tab, then click on MONITOR FOLDERS tab and after that click on BROWSE button (shown as numbers 1, 2 and 3 from the screenshot below) then select your folder and its path will be added to the box below the Browse button:

2. Create your post template (referred to as number 4 from the screenshot below) , the template support the TOKENS below the text box, we will explain how the TOKENS work at the end of this tutorial so don’t worry about that for now.

All the hashtags in the second line will be posted in the first comment because anything written after the [COMMENT] token get posted in the first comment instead of the post caption itself. Please keep in mind that this applies to Instagram and Facebook only.

3. If you are posting to Pinterest as well, you can use Source Url Template (number 5) to link your pin to your website. Like that, when they click in your link they will be redirected to your website.
4. If you want to extract videos from inside the folder, make sure you check this box (number 6)
5. Once you are done with your Post Template, you can then click on ADD FOLDER button (number 7), then Jarvee will add the folder path to the table shown in the screenshot below, where you can be more specific about the extract operation using the options you have on the right side of the table:

6. Now, all you have to do is click START from the right side of the table for Jarvee to start extracting from your folder.

But wait, what about “we will explain how the TOKENS work at the end of this tutorial so don’t worry about that for now.” ?

Here is the Tokens that are available for images and videos files:

From the screenshot below, we can see that we can use the following tokens:

• [FILENAME]
• [FOLDERNAME]
• [META_TITLE]
• [META_COMMENTS]
• [META_TAGS]
• [META_SUBJECT]

Let’s explain what every token can be used for:

[FILENAME] Will be replaced with the name of the image or video that got extracted.

[FOLDERNAME] Will be replaced with the name of the folder containing the image or video.

To use the Meta data Tokens we will need to customize our image META DATA

How to modify our images META DATA:

1. Right click on the image then click Properties
2. Click on Details tab and then hover over the detail value you wish to change or edit and a box will appear where you can type your customize info (See screenshot below)

Once you are done editing your photos, add them to your folder and import the folder to Jarvee using the Browse button at the Monitor Folder tab as we explained at the beginning of this tutorial, add the META DATA tokens you want to use to your template, then click on Add Folder button and Jarvee will take it from there.

Don’t forget to click Start as we explained before.

How does the TOKENS work:

Let’s say for example you edited the meta title of one of your images and you used the Token [META_TITLE], Jarvee will replace it with the value you gave the title on the image file.

Here is how it will show in your Posts List tab after the images are extracted:

As you can see the second post doesn’t have any text because we didn’t add anything in the Image >> Properties >> Details.

How to create post with multiple images from sub-folder:

All you have to do, is to add the photos you wish to use for that post on a sub-folder (put them on a folder inside the original folder you want to import using the Browse  button).

Your text post will be extracted from the Meta Data of an image that you must name “primary”, if it is not available Jarvee will use the Meta Data of the first (alphabetically) file on the sub-folder.

You can name your images 1,2,3.. on the sub-folder and Jarvee will extract the Meta Data of the the image 1 and make sure you have the following box checked: