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
Processing
The selected operation (adding or removing lines, text or pages)is made on the data file.
Output
The modified data file is output from this task. Metadata is not modified in any way if it is
present.
Task Properties
General tab
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Action group
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Add: Select if you want the task to add content to the job file.
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Remove: Select if you want the task to remove content from the job file.
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Content: Select what the task will actually add or remove. Select Text file to add the
whole content of a text file to the beginning or end of the job file. Select Characters to add
the string of characters entered in the Characters box to the beginning or end of the job
file, or to remove a given number of characters from the beginning or end of the job file.
Select Lines to add the lines of text entered in the Lines box to the beginning or end of the
job file, or to remove a given number of lines from the beginning or end of the job file.
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Position: Select whether you want the task to add or remove content from the beginning
or end of the job file.
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Add CRLF after last line: Select if you want to add a CRLF (carriage return/line feed)
character after the last line of text added to the job file. This option is only available when
you choose to add lines of text to the job file.
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ASCII file: Enter the path and name of the text file to be added to the job file, or use the
Browse button to navigate to this file. This box is only displayed when the Text file option
is selected in the Content box.
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Characters: Enter the string of characters to be added to the job file. This box is only
displayed when the Characters option is selected in the Content box.
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Lines: Enter the lines of text to be added to the job file. This box is only displayed when
the Lines option is selected in the Content box.
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Remove: Enter the number of characters or lines to be removed from the job file. This box
is only displayed when Remove is selected in the Action group and when the Characters
or Lines option is selected in the Content box.
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