7.1

Time of Day Condition
Time of Day conditions test the current time and day. Using a time and day grid, you can select blocks that correspond to time
and day coordinates. Various settings can be used to change time intervals, for instance, that range from 15 minutes to 24
hours. You may choose to use days or dates, and you may also select specific weeks or months.
The Time of Day condition differs from the process schedule in the fact that you could put this condition after generating some
output, and you can also run tasks when the condition itself is false, which is not the case for a process outside of schedule.
You can choose contiguous as well as separate time blocks as required. The condition is tested True every time the current
time and date corresponds to a selected time block.
Text Condition properties are as follows:
General tab
l Month: Select “All months” if you want the selected time blocks to be valid every month of the year. Select a specific
month if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on that month.
l Week of month / by date: Select “Date” if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on specific dates.
Select “All weeks” if you want the selected time blocks to be valid every week of the month. Select a specific week of
the month if you want the selected time blocks to be valid only on that week (the first, second or last week of the
month, for instance).
l Time division: Select the desired time interval. Each block in the grid corresponds to the selected time interval.
l Invert condition result: Select to toggle the result of the condition (true becomes false and vice versa).
l Grid: Select separate or contiguous time blocks. Click a block to toggle it on or off. Click and drag to toggle multiple
blocks on or off. Click date or day at the top of the grid to toggle the whole date or day on or off. Click a time interval on
the left margin of the grid to toggle the whole time interval on or off.
l Select All: Click to toggle all the time blocks on.
l Clear: Click to toggle all the time blocks off.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 51).
Splitters
Splitter action tasks are used to single data files into multiple data files. You can use such tasks, for example, to split files that
contain statements for multiple clients into smaller files that each contain a single client statement. Each statement can then be
printed and sent by snail mail, or even emailed directly from PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools, to each individual client.
Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely processed. When a given splitter
creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all the tasks on the same branch are performed until the output
task. Then the splitter task creates yet another file that is again handed down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends
(when there is no more data in the original file).
The splitting process must not alter the structure of the data file. In other words, each split file must have the same
structure as the original files, otherwise the PlanetPress Design documents to which they will be sent will not be able
to extract the data correctly and the merging process will fail.
PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools offers various splitters to process different types of data:
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