2018.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.1
- Installation and Setup
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and Error Handling
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Working With Variables
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About related programs and services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- Delete objects and groups from the Configuration Components pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPress Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- 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 Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
l A percentage sign identifies standard variables, as well as standard and custom job info
variables — %f, for example.
l A backslash indicates a control character — \004, for example.
l An at sign (@) indicates a data selection for emulations other than database — @
(1,1,1,1,17,KeepCase,Trim), for example.
l Field indicates a data selection for a database emulation — field(1,0,0,'Billing_
Email',KeepCase,NoTrim), for example.
l The lookup()function indicates a lookup in the "Data Repository Manager" on page598.
Masks
A file name that includes characters meant to be replaced at run-time is referred to as a mask.
Masks can be used in many edit boxes and can be used, for instance, to select multiple files.
File selection is typically limited by fixed characters or special wildcard characters. If you create
a Folder Capture Input task and enter *.* in the Masks box, the Input task will grab all the files
that are put in the source folder. If you enter *.mdb instead, the task will only take those
database files that have an mdb extension. You can use any standard wildcard character in
PlanetPress Workflow.
Note
Masks are case-insensitive, since the Windows platform does not support case-sensitive file names
(yes, you can have mixed case in a file name but that's visual fluff - the OSitself does not care).
Mask Format
Here are the different mask formats available:
l Literal characters:Any alphanumerical character is considered literal character and
must appear. For example, a mask of "trigger.txt"will not capture any other files than that
name.
l Wildcards:Two wildcards are available in masks.
l Asterisk (*):Supports any number of characters. *.txt would pick up any text file,
file*.txt would pick up any file starting with file and any characters:file1.txt,
filetest.txt.
l Question Mark (?):Supports a single character. file?.txt would pick up File1.txt or
filea.txt , but not file13.txt or filetest.txt.
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