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Standard Filter action task properties are as follows:
General tab
l Process job using ASCII emulation: Select to use the ASCII emulation to process the job file. This reverses LF-
CR end-of-line sequences that may result in unwanted double-spacing.
l Remove and convert HP escape characters: Select to filter HP escape character sequences from the job file.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 51).
Translator Action Task Properties
PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Translator action tasks can convert your data from its current encoding to a number of dif-
ferent encoding. The same data may be converted back and forth as required.
The Translator Action Task is useful for data file using foreign languages, as well as to convert Unicode data file (which are not
supported by PlanetPress Suite).
Codepage 1252 (ANSI - Latin 1) is used for many Latin language documents, since it can be used for Afrikaans, Basque, Cat-
alan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish. Codepage 932 is often used for Japanese.
Translator action task properties are as follows:
General tab
l Source encoding: Select the current data encoding. Note that the source encoding is not selected automatically and
you must therefore select the proper encoding from this list in order for the conversion process to be performed suc-
cessfully.
l Target encoding: Select the encoding to which you want the data to be converted.
l Include target encoding signature: This option is only available when converting to UTF-8 (Windows code page
65001) or UCS-4 (code page 12000 or 12001). Select to include the character encoding signature—also known as the
byte order mark—at the beginning of the target string.
l Default character on translation: You may enter a character to be used to replace all those characters that can-
not be found in the source encoding. If you leave this box empty, they will be simply stripped from the data, so you may
consider using a space as a place holder for unidentified characters.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 51).
PlanetPress Database Action Task Properties
PlanetPress Database action tasks retrieve data from various databases to use as input data. The data received by the task
may be kept as is or converted to the CSV, Fixed Length Columns or XML format.
PlanetPress Database action tasks are not considered input tasks as such, because they cannot be used to start a process.
Although they cannot be used to get the process’ initial input, they can be used to gather secondary input (see "Initial and Sec-
ondary Input Tasks" (page 94)). In cases where all your data comes from databases, you can use a Create File input task as a
dummy task at the beginning of your process, and then use a PlanetPress Database action task to gather your actual data.
PlanetPress Database action tasks require version 2.5 or higher of the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC),
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