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Table Of Contents
- Other Documentation
- Understanding PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Key Concepts
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- The Origins of PlanetPress Watch
- The Nature of PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Configurations and Processes
- More on PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and How They Work
- The Configuration and its Processes
- Tasks
- More on PlanetPress Suite Services
- PlanetPress Design and PlanetPress Workflow Tools
- Data
- Data File and Job File
- Job File Names and Output File Names
- Error Handling Tools
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and Printing
- The PlanetPress Suite Workflow
- Date and Time Format
- Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express® and MAPI
- Key Concepts
- The PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Start the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool Configuration Program
- Choose the Account to be Used by your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool
- Control Access to the Locally Installed Services
- Exit the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool Configuration Program
- Create a New Configuration
- Open a PlanetPress Suite Configuration File
- Reopen a Configuration File
- Add a PlanetPress Suite Process
- Import Processes from Another Configuration File
- Save a Configuration
- Use Online Help
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Area
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Area
- Cut, Copy and Paste Objects in the Configuration Components Area
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Area
- Group and Ungroup Objects in the Configuration Components Area
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Area
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- View Document Properties
- Edit Properties in the Object Inspector
- Select a Process
- Resize Rows and Columns of the PlanetPress Suite Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within the PlanetPress Suite Process Area
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Resize the Program Window Areas
- Show or Hide Areas of the Program Window
- Dock and Undock Areas of the Program Window
- Combine and Attach Areas
- Configurations, Processes and Tasks
- Configuration Management
- Opening and Importing Configurations and Processes
- Users and Configurations
- Anatomy of a Process
- Configurations, Processes and Flowcharts
- Design Versus Debug Mode
- Tasks as Plugins
- Task Properties Dialog Boxes
- Variable Properties
- Standard Variables
- Job Information Elements and Job Info Variables
- Custom Variables
- Selecting Documents in Tasks
- Sending Job Info Variables to Output Devices
- Working with Tasks in the PlanetPress Process Area
- Adding Branches
- Detailed Directions
- Adding Tasks
- Editing Tasks or Branches
- Adding Comments
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions, Branches or Comments
- Removing Tasks and Branches
- Cutting and Pasting, or Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving Tasks, Branches and Comments Using Drag-and-Drop
- Duplicating Tasks, Branches and Comments Using Drag-and-Drop
- Copying and Pasting Properties between Task, Conditions or Comments
- Disabling and Enabling Tasks and Branches
- Data in PlanetPress Watch
- Input Tasks
- Detailed Directions
- Email Input Task Properties
- Folder Listing Input Task Properties
- Folder Capture Input Task Properties
- FTP Input Task Properties
- HTTP Client Input Task Properties
- HTTP Server Input Task Properties
- Create File Input Task Properties
- LPD Input Task Properties
- Serial Input Task Properties
- Telnet Input Task Properties
- WinQueue Input Task Properties
- Detailed Directions
- Output Tasks
- PlanetPress Fax
- PlanetPress Image
- Action Tasks
- Detailed Directions
- Advanced Search and Replace Action Task Properties
- Database Action Task Properties
- PrintForm Action Task Properties
- PrintShop Mail Action Task Properties
- Rename Action Task Property
- Run Script Action Task Properties
- Search and Replace Action Task Properties
- Send Images to Printer Action Task Properties
- Send to Folder Action Task Properties
- Set Variables Action Task Properties
- Standard Filter Action Task Properties
- Translator Action Task Properties
- Windows Print Converter Action Task Properties
- Create Metadata Action Task Properties
- Create PDF Action Task Properties
- In-Stream Splitter Action Task Properties
- Load External File Action Properties
- PDF Splitter Action Task Properties
- Send to Process Action Task Properties
- Emulated Data Splitter Action Task Properties
- XML Splitter Action Task Properties
- Database Splitter Action Task Properties
- Generic Splitter Action Task Properties
- Add Document Action Properties
- Add/Remove Text Action Properties
- Change Emulation Action Task Properties
- Create VDX Action Task Properties
- Decompress Action Task Properties
- Digital Imaging Action Task Properties
- Digital Signature Action Task Properties
- Download to Printer Action Task Properties
- External Program Action Task Properties
- Loop Action Task Properties
- Open XSLT Action Task Properties
- Detailed Directions
- Using Conditions
- Using Scripts
- Printer Queues and Documents
- Detailed Directions
- LPR Output Printer Queue Properties
- Windows Output Printer Queue Properties
- FTP Output Printer Queue Properties
- Send to Folder Printer Queue Properties
- Printer Queue Advanced Properties
- Import Documents
- Import PrintShop Mail Documents
- Add Resident Documents in the Configuration Components Area
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Watch Printer Queues
- Print a Test Page
- Manually Update Documents
- Detailed Directions
- Scheduling PlanetPress Watch Processes
- Advanced Configurations and Options
- Key Concepts
- Service Options Versus Properties
- Languages
- Detailed Directions
- Delete Images From Your Virtual Drive
- Editor Options
- LPR Output User Options
- Network Ports Settings
- Change Languages
- Change your User Options
- Change your Script Editor or XSLT Editor User Options
- General User Options
- Object Inspector User Options
- Configuration Components Area User Options
- Default Configuration User Options
- Notification Messages User Options
- Sample Data User Options
- Logging User Options
- Network User Options
- HTTP Server Input User Options
- LPD Input User Options
- Serial Input Service User Options
- Telnet Input User Options
- FTP Output Service User Options
- Error Handling
- Debugging PlanetPress Watch Processes
- Sending and Running a Configuration
Note that all output services used by PlanetPress Watch/Server run under the same account.
Related topics:
• The Nature of PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
(Page 4)
• Configurations and Processes (Page 5)
2.1.9 PlanetPress Design and PlanetPress Workflow Tools
How do I use the variable content documents I create in PlanetPress Design ?
As you know, PlanetPress Design is used to create variable-content documents, or if you will, documents
meant to be merged with variable data before being printed.
People who use PlanetPress Design on a standalone basis (without a PlanetPress Workflow Tool) can only
install and run their variable-content documents on their printers. When one of those printers receives a data
file that begins with a trigger (see Triggers (Page 0)), it starts by merging the data with a variable-content
document and then prints the resulting document.
People who use both PlanetPress Design and a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool, on the other hand, have more
options. Like standalone PlanetPress Design users, they can let the printer do the processing and the printing,
but they can also let their PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool do the merging and then store or send the
resulting document in various ways or via various output devices or programs.
To install documents created with PlanetPress Design on a printer or to use them with PlanetPress Watch/
Server, you must use commands available from the PlanetPress Design File menu.
A) The PlanetPress Design command used to send a document to a printer. B) The PlanetPress Design command used to
send a document to a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool.
Whether you install a document on a printer or send it to a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool has a number of
implications:
• Documents sent to printers (known as printer-resident documents) can be used for printer-based output
tasks: PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools send only the data and the appropriate trigger to the printer
where everything takes place. Since only the data and the trigger travel across the network to the
printer, this method generates less network traffic. Note that to use printer-resident documents with
PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools, you must use your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool Configuration
program to let PlanetPress Design know which documents have been send to which printers.
• Documents sent to PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools can be used for various types of output tasks.
These documents may be run using the Optimized PostScript Stream option (merged with the data
on the host itself before being sent to a printer or to a component that prints it to a file, such as
PlanetPress Image) and sent via various means, such as an Email program or a fax machine, for
example. Documents sent to a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool installation are automatically added to
the list of documents displayed in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool Configuration program.
Since PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools give you the choice to run PlanetPress Design documents at the
printer level or at the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool installation level, various output tasks include an option
to indicate just where you want the merging to take place.
Wherever you choose to run any given PlanetPress Design document, you should always make sure that
everything the document needs to run correctly, such as graphics referenced within the document, is directly
available. If the document runs at the printer level, then these resources must be available on the printer’s
hard disk. If the document runs at the computer level, the resources must be available on the computer’s
hard disk or on the network.
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