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15.2 Service Options Versus Properties

Why are some tasks configured primarily through service options, while others through their properties?

PlanetPress Watch/Server service options do not have the same impact on all existing tasks, so changing

these options will change the way some tasks are performed and leave other tasks completely unchanged.

The way some tasks are performed is determined by a combination of the task’s properties and the current

options selected for the service performing the task. Let us consider Serial input tasks, for example. The

information indicating which serial port to poll, is stored in the PlanetPress Watch/Server user options. On the

other hand, if you want to know whether or not the input task will keep backups of the files received via the

serial port, you must check the task’s properties.

So, you could say that there are three groups of tasks:

• Tasks that are very much affected by changes made to the service options:

▪ Serial input tasks

• Tasks that are partially affected by changes made to the service options:

▪ LPD input tasks

▪ Telnet input tasks

▪ PlanetPress Fax output tasks

▪ PlanetPress Image output tasks

▪ LPR output tasks

• Tasks that are not affected by changes made to the service options:

▪ Error Bin input tasks

▪ Create File input tasks

▪ Email input tasks

▪ Folder Capture input tasks

▪ FTP input tasks

▪ WinQueue input tasks

▪ Printer Queue output task

▪ Delete tasks

▪ FTP output tasks

▪ Send Email output tasks

▪ Send To Folder output tasks