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
You can set the value of a job info within your process in two ways:
l Use the Set Job Info and Variable action task. See "Set Job Infos and Variables" on
page312.
l You can use Scripts. See the chapter "Using Scripts" on page93.
Considerations on Job Infos:
l While the initial job infos are created by the input task, they can be overwritten by the Set
Job Info and Variables Action Task, by a Script, or by any secondary input task in the
process. Whenever you use a job info in your process, make sure it contains the value
that you want, and not one that has been overwritten by another task.
l Job infos sent to the document are global to that document, meaning the values do not
change between data files. This means that if your data file contains multiple data pages
for different clients, your job infos cannot be used to send information to the document.
l Job infos are in limited quantity and are slowly being deprecated when transferring data
to your document. You should probably consider using Metadata, or Local Variables.
Standard Variables
Standard Variables, also known as "system variables", are variables that are created and
managed directly by PlanetPress Workflow. These variables are read-only and cannot be
modified. They provide information about the job, process, and PlanetPress Workflow
environment.
Available Standard Variables
Variable
Name Example value when interpreted
%c
Content of
your job file in
its original
format.
n/a
%F
Job File Path
and Name
C:\Program Files\PlanetPress Workflow 7\PlanetPress
Watch\Spool\job1D80328.dat
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