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
Variables may be used as variable properties in variable property boxes (see Variable
Properties).
About Workflow Configurations
PlanetPress Workflow configuration files are defined as a set of processes, subprocesses,
variables, documents and printer queues, that work together within PlanetPress Workflow
Service.
PlanetPress Workflow cannot work without a valid configuration, and a PlanetPress Workflow
session running on a given computer can only use one configuration at a time. Once you have
created a configuration, you must “send” it to the PlanetPress Workflow Service. When you do
this, your PlanetPress Workflow forgets its previous configuration and starts executing the tasks
included in the new configuration.
Note
A PlanetPress Workflow configuration must be composed of at least one process, but it
may include as many as 512.
For a configuration created in the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration tool to actually be
executed by PlanetPress Workflow, it must be sent to its PlanetPress Workflow service.
See the following pages for information on different parts of a PlanetPress Workflow
configuration:
l For information about processes and subprocesses, see "About Processes and
Subprocesses" on page79.
l For information about tasks, see "About Tasks" on page202.
l For information about the use of data, see "About data" on page23.
l For information about variables, see "Working With Variables" on page512.
Creating a new configuration
When you start the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration tool, it always opens the
configuration file that is active on the PlanetPress Workflow service. If you create a new
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