7.6

Splitters do not modify the metadata that is currently active within your process. This means that, if you are intending
to use metadata along with a process using splitters, you can either use the Metadata Sequencer instead of a splitter,
or (re)create the metadata after the spiltter.
About Using Emulations with Splitters
When an emulation is used with a splitter action task, the job file is emulated, cut to pieces and de-emulated. Most times, the
emulation/de-emulation process is completely transparent. However, in some cases, there may be minute differences.
When using the ASCII or Channel Skip emulation, if there are missing line feed characters (when lines end with a single car-
riage return in ASCII, or when lines start with a No line feed channel in Channel Skip), the output data will be different from the
input data, but the change will not be significant.
Let us imagine that a splitter action task processes the following data file using the ASCII emulation:
Data line1 of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line2 of page 1<cr>
Last data line of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line1 of page 2<cr><lf>
...and so forth...
Once split, the first file generated by the action task would look like this:
Data line1 of page 1<cr><lf>
Data line2 of page 1<cr>
Data line2 of page 1<cr><lf>
Last data line of page 1<cr>
But when opened with PlanetPress Design or a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool using the ASCII emulation, the data in the gen-
erated file would look exactly like the data in the original. The same would hold true for the Channel Skip emulation.
Note the following details about emulations and their options:
l With most emulations, if a file is split on a form feed, the form feed will not be appended to the output file.
l With the ASCII emulation, tabs within the input data file are replaced by spaces (the number of spaces is determined
within the configuration of the emulation).
l With the ASCII emulation, if the Remove HP PCL Escapes option is selected, the data coming out of the splitter will have
no escape sequences.
l The Goto column option of Channel Skip emulation is not supported.
Database Splitter
Database Splitter are used to split database files into multiple data files that are passed to subsequent tasks in the process.
Input
A Database Emulation data file.
Processing
The file is separated into multiple chunks according to the rules set in the task's properties.