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General tab
l Folder: Enter the path of the folder to which the files are to be saved.
l File name: Enter the name of the output files generated by this task. To prevent each new file from overwriting the
previous one, you should use variable names. As with any variable property box, you can use any combination of text,
variables and data selections.
l Concatenate files: If this option is selected, when PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools tries to save the job file under
an existing name, it appends the content of the new job file to that of the existing file, instead of overwriting it.
l When using a fully composed document in a PDF emulation mode, setting a Send to Folder output task provides the
opportunity to logically merge PDF outputs by checking the Concatenate files box.
l Note that concatenating PDF in a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools environment will result in what is called a physical
merge; this means the resulting output will not be a valid PDF file.
l Separator string: This option is used to add a separator string between the content of each file when the Con-
catenate files option is selected.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
SOAP Client Plug-in
SOAP Client tasks can be used as input, output and action tasks, although their basic function is to generate output. SOAP (Sim-
ple Object Access Protocol) is a light protocol that defines a standard XML format used to communicate among systems across
different architectures, languages, and operating systems.
A SOAP request is an XML-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) sent using the HTTP transport protocol. The payload of the
SOAP packet is an XML document that specifies the call being made and the parameters being passed.
Web services, a SOAP class of applications, expose their services via the Internet in a manner that lets other applications
access them, as well as use and combine them as required.
In order to access and successfully use Web services, client applications must know how to get them, what operations they
support, what parameters they expect, as well as what they return. SOAP servers make this information available via WSDL
(Web Service Description Language) files.
To configure a given SOAP Client task in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration program, you must first get its
WSDL file (note that you cannot download the WSDL file over an HTTPS connection, so you should use an HTTP connection to
get the file and then switch back to a secure connection). This lets you know which services the SOAP server provides, as well
as each service’s methods and namespaces.
If firewalls control communication between the SOAP client and the Web servers, they must be configured so as not to block
client-server communication.
In the case of "string" type data, SOAP Client tasks normalize all line endings to a single line feed character.
SOAP Client task properties are as follows:
General tab
l WSDL address: Enter the URL address of the WSDL file, or choose a previously selected address from the drop-
down list.
The WSDL Address of a PlanetPress Workflow SOAP server is the following:
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