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l Preferences: Displays the Options dialog. See Preferences.
l Exit: Closes PlanetPress Workflow. See Exit the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program.
When using the New, Open, Close, Recent Documents and Exit menu options, if your current configuration has not
been saved after modifications, a dialog will open asking if you want to save, not save, or cancel the action and return to the
current configuration.
Create a New Configuration
When you start PlanetPress Workflow, it always opens the configuration file that is active on the PlanetPress Watch service
(ppwatch.cfg). If you create a new configuration, PlanetPress Workflow automatically creates a process that includes a
Folder Capture initial input task and a Send to Folder output task. You can then edit and save your new configuration.
To create a new configuration, chooseNew from the PlanetPress Button.
If the active ppwatch.cfg file is currently opened, and if it includes unsaved modifications, PlanetPress Workflow asks you
whether to send the configuration to the PlanetPressWatch service before creating the new configuration. Select the Always
send without prompting for confirmation option to automatically send the edited version of the configuration.
If a file different from the default configuration file is currently opened, and if it includes unsaved modifications, PlanetPress
Workflow asks you whether to save the configuration before creating the new configuration. Select the Always save with-
out prompting for confirmation option to automatically save any unsaved work.
Open a PlanetPress Suite Configuration File
While the PlanetPress Workflow Tool Configuration program always loads the default and current configuration
(ppwatch.cfg), you may sometimes need to open a Workflow Tool configuration file ([file name].pw7) that is not the cur-
rent one, for example to load a previous backup or a configuration file saved from another computer. This procedure will show
you how.
1. From the PlanetPress Suite Button, chooseOpen.
The Open dialog box appears.
2. Navigate to the configuration file you want to open, select it and click Open.
If the default configuration file (ppwatch.cfg) is currently opened, and if it includes unsaved modifications, the PlanetPress
Suite Workflow Tools Configuration program asks you whether to send the configuration to the PlanetPress Suite Workflow
Tools service before opening the selected configuration. Select the Always send without prompting for confirmation
option to automatically send the edited version of the configuration before opening any other configuration (see Saving and
Sending a Configuration).
You can also open a configuration file from a previous version of PlanetPress Workflow Tool by changing the File
Type selector to the desired version (for example, .pw6 for PlanetPress Watch/Server configurations from Version 6)
Saving and Sending a Configuration
The core of the PlanetPressSuite workflow tools is the PlanetPress Watch service which, once started, constantly runs in the
background to perform the tasks included in its current configuration file. PlanetPress Workflow lets you create, edit and save
configuration files.
As you are working on your configuration, you can save that configuration file as a file on your local hard drive with the pw7
extension (see Save your Configuration).
The PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program