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
This task is dual-purpose:It can be used either as an Action task, or as an Output task. In either
case, it does not directly produce an output, though the process it calls may produce one or
more outputs.
In either case, the called process will ignore the input task along with its job infos and schedule,
and use the job file, job infos, metadata and variables from the current process.
General tab
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Process: The name of the target process to send current job to. Note that startup and
subprocesses are not available. You can either enter the name of a process (or use
variable properties)or use the drop-down to list existing processes.
On Error Tab
For a description of the options on the On Error tab see "Using the On Error tab" on page57.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a text area (Task comments)that lets
you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with
the OKbutton, and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
SNMP Condition
SNMPis a communication protocol for helping network administrators manage devices and
peripherals on their network. It is useful for verifying the status of network printers, as you can
retrieve error and other status messages that printers send out, such as being out of paper or
having low toner.
PlanetPress Workflow uses the SNMPprotocol in the form of an SNMPCondition, in to
ways:
l To check the status of printers on your network against values you set in a condition, and
to return a true or false value. This is called setting a Printer condition in the
SNMPcondition's Properties dialog box.
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