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
The Metadata Fields in the structure of a PlanetPress Design document allow to easily define
documents or groups, by dragging and dropping data from the Sample Data directly onto the
document's Metadata Fields.
Data Repository
The Data Repository is a permanent structure to store data that can then be reused, modified or
augmented at a later time, by different processes.
This feature was introduced in version 8.5.
The Data Repository is especially useful in situations where data needs to be kept in between
processes. A few examples:
l An HTTP-based authentication process, once it has validated user credentials, could
store session information (unique ID, user name, session starting time) into the repository.
All other related processes could then look into the repository to determine if a new
request is received from an already authenticated user, if the session has expired, what
the user name is, etc.
l Data comes in and is merged into a Capture OnTheGo template and stored in the Data
Repository. The end-user augments the data (using the COTG as a data-entry system).
The process that receives the augmented data could look into the Data Repository to
retrieve the original data (or the ID of the original data records) in order to augment,
modify or delete it.
Structure
As can be seen in the "Data Repository Manager" on page598, the Data Repository consists of
Groups, Keys and KeySets.
Feature Name Description Equivalent Database Terminology
Group A Group is defined by its Keys
(columns), and may contain 0 or
more KeySets (rows)within it.
Table
Key A Key is defined only by its name.
The Data Repository only supports
Column/Field
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