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The Workflow Service Console lets you start and stop the different services, except the
Connect server, and see their log files (see Workflow Service Console).
Note that Workflow isn't strictly limited to Connect functionality. It was originally developed as
part of the PlanetPress Suite. Many of the plugins in the Workflow configuration tool are older
than Connect; they were left in for compatibility reasons, even though they aren't all useful or
usable within Connect. However, the Connect plugins cannot be used with the PlanetPress
Suite software.
The Connect server
As opposed to the Workflow server, the Connect server was designed to be used only with
Connect. The Connect server performs several different tasks, all of which are related to
Connect content and content management:
l It communicates with the Workflow service (with the Connect plugins, specifically) and
with the Designer when output is generated from the Designer.
l It creates records (by extracting data from a data source using a data mapping
configuration), and jobs.
l It communicates with the engines (see below) in order to make them create content items
and output (spool) files.
The Connect server is one of the components that has to be installed with Connect (see
"Installation Wizard" on page35).
In the Workflow Configuration Tool preferences you have to set the OL Connect server settings
to enable Workflow to communicate with the server (see Workflow Preferences).
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