7.5

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 In the case of a PDF, this will act like the Merge PDF Files input task, merging the PDF logically.
l
This feature is part of the PDFTools, which is only available in PlanetPress Office and PlanetPress Pro-
duction. It is not available with a PlanetPress Watch license.
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.
If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process where errors are
being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the variables selected in this window
will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are overwritten.
Common Errors
Though some error messages are specific to a task in particular, others may apply to any and all tasks because they are
related more to the system than to PlanetPress itself. Some examples would be W3813, W3830, W3991, W4005. These cor-
respond to issues such as not having any space to write files, permission errors on folders or files, etc.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab, added in PlanetPress Suite 7.5, is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area (Task
comments)that lets you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the
OKbutton, and are displayed in The Task Comments Pane.
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.