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
branch does a backup of Job Info variables and the data file, it does not back up the metadata. Keep
this in mind when designing a process.
A Branch is effectively a doubling of your job file (see "Data file and job file" on page24). As
your job file goes down the process, when a branch is encountered, a copy of the job file will go
in that branch. In the branch, all tasks up to the Output task will be performed, before returning
to the main trunk to continue processes. You can have branches within branches, and all
branches must have an Output task. For more information on branches, see " About branches
and conditions" on page82 and "Branch" below.
ALoop is a task that will cause anything after it to repeat a certain number of times. You can
indicate a static number of loops or dynamically determine the number via a variable or
information from your job file, and store the iteration of the loop in a Job Info variable. See
"Loop" on page350.
The Send to Process Action and Go Sub Action are used to send the job file to another
process or subprocess and, in the case of the GoSub, to get information back from the
subprocess. See "Send to Process" on page353 and "Go Sub" on page348.
Branch
ABranch duplicates your job file along with accompanying information. Branches do not
execute in parallel - the branch is executed, and then the trunk (or the following
branch)continues.
Properties
Backup Tab
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Backup job file: Select if you want PlanetPress Workflow to use identical copies of the
job file for the main and secondary branches. When this option is not selected, the file
generated by the output task located at the end of the secondary branch is used as the job
file for the main branch. Note that if the secondary branch ends with a Delete output task,
the main branch will receive the job file in the state it was just before the delete. If the
secondary branch includes a splitter task, the main branch will receive the last part of the
job file (as split by the splitter task). If the secondary branch ends with a PlanetPress Fax
or PlanetPress Image output task, the main branch will receive a PostScript file.
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