7.4
Table Of Contents
- Copyright Information
- Table of Content
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Understanding PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- The Nature of PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- The Three Flavors of the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Terms and Definitions
- About Configurations
- About Processes
- About Subprocesses
- About Tasks
- About Branches and Conditions
- About Data
- About Data Selections
- About Data Emulation
- About Related Programs and Services
- About Documents
- About Printing
- The PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- Start the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- The PlanetPress Button
- Create a New Configuration
- Open a PlanetPress Suite Configuration File
- Saving and Sending a Configuration
- Save your Configuration
- Send your Configuration
- Import Processes from Another Configuration File
- Import Documents
- Import PrintShop Mail Documents
- Change the Interface Language
- Exit the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Suite Ribbon
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Access Process Properties
- Add a PlanetPress Suite Process
- Manipulate Local Variables
- Activate or Deactivate a Process
- Convert a Branch to a Subprocess
- Manipulate Global Variables
- View Document Properties
- Use Data and Metadata Files Attached to Documents
- Use Attached Document Preview
- Add Resident Documents in the Configuration Components Pane
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Watch Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Plug-in Bar
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- Customizing the Program Window
- Preferences
- General User Options
- Object Inspector User Options
- Configuration Components Pane User Options
- Default Configuration User Options
- Notification Messages Preferences
- Sample Data User Options
- Network User Options
- PlanetPress Capture User Options
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- Logging User Options
- Messenger User Options
- HTTP Server Input User Options
- HTTP Server Input 2 User Options
- LPD Input Preferences
- Serial Input Service User Options
- Telnet Input User Options
- PlanetPress Fax User Options
- FTP Output Service User Options
- PlanetPress Image User Options
- LPR Output User Options
- PrintShop Web Connect Service User Options
- Editor Options
- Other Dialogs
- Working With Variables
- Data in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Task Properties Reference
- Input Tasks
- Action Tasks
- Add Document
- Add/Remove Text
- Advanced Search and Replace
- Barcode Scan
- Change Emulation
- Create PDF
- Decompress File(s)
- Digital Action
- Download to Printer
- External Program
- Load External File
- Mathematical Operations
- Open XSLT
- PlanetPress Database
- Rename
- Run Script
- Send Images to Printer
- Search and Replace
- Send to Folder
- Set Job Infos and Variables
- SOAP Client Plug-in
- Standard Filter
- Translator
- Windows Print Converter
- Data Splitters
- Process Logic Tasks
- Connector Tasks
- Create MRDX
- Input from SharePoint
- Laserfiche Repository Output
- Lookup in Microsoft® Excel® Documents
- Microsoft® Word® Documents To PDF Conversion
- Output to SharePoint
- About PlanetPress Fax
- PlanetPress Fax
- Captaris RightFax Configuration
- About PlanetPress Image
- PlanetPress Image
- Overview of the PDF/A and PDF/X Standards
- PrintShop Mail
- PlanetPress Capture
- Metadata Tasks
- Output Tasks
- Variable Properties
- Unknown Tasks
- Masks
- Special Workflow Types
- Printer Queues and Documents
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Printer Queues
- Shared Printer Queue Properties
- Windows Output Printer Queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder Printer Queue
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and PlanetPress Design Documents
- Variable Content Document File Formats: PTZ, PTK and PS
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and Printshop Mail Documents
- Triggers
- Load Balancing
- Location of Documents and Resources
- Debugging and Error Handling
- Using Scripts
- Index
A single JOB can be composed of GROUPS of DOCUMENTS, which themselves are composed of physical PAGES produced by
executing a PlanetPress Design document on one or more DATAPAGES.
Metadata Elements
Each metadata node (i.e. Job, Group, Document, etc.) is described with a series of elements, that is, system-defined attributes
or user-defined fields holding static or dynamic information about the node they are attached to. Each element has a name and
a value. More specifically, here is a definition of these 2 types of elements:
Attribute: A read-only, system-defined element which holds a certain information about a certain node from the Metadata
structure. This information can be static (e.g. the size of a physical page) or evaluated on-the-fly (e.g. the number of doc-
uments in a group). Attributes are non-repetitive (i.e. name is unique) and does not persist through metadata recreation.
Field: A read-write, user-defined element which hold custom information about a certain node from the metadata structure.
Fields are repetitive (i.e. the same field may appear multiple times) and persist through metadata recreation.
In addition to attributes and fields, each node of type group, document or datapage have a boolean property called selected
that indicates whether or not to produce the pages under that node. By default, this property is set to true for all nodes.
Metadata Attributes Reference
Here is a description of the Metadata attributes. The attributes are categorized as either Production, Finishing or Index/Count.
Production attributes describe the production of the job and/or metadata (e.g. path and name of the datafile, date at which
metadata was created, etc.)
Data in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools