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
l Telnet Input service: Monitors multiple telnet ports for incoming data. Note that each
Telnet input task has its own telnet port number (set in each task).
l HTTP/SOAP Server service: Monitors web pages and web sites as well as SOAP
servers.
Available Output services
Output services are used to output jobs. The output services used by PlanetPress Workflow
are:
l FTP Output service: Places output jobs on a server via the FTP protocol.
l LPR (Line Printer Requester) Output service: Sends jobs to an LPD server or LPD
compatible printers. The LPD/LPR printing protocol is a common way to send print jobs
that, in turn, use the TCP/IP protocol to communicate through the network.
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PlanetPress Image: Outputs jobs as PDF files or in a variety of image formats. You can
also use PlanetPress Image to archive and/or email the files it creates. You can use
PlanetPress Search to search the PDF files PlanetPress Image creates. You can install
multiple instances of the PlanetPress Image service on your network, and have
PlanetPress Workflowsend jobs to one or more of these instances. Each instance of
PlanetPress Image can generate PDFs or images and dispatch them from the host on
which it runs. See About Image.
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PlanetPress Fax: Outputs jobs as faxes. You use PlanetPress Fax as an interface to
WinFax PRO or Windows Fax, to send faxes you create from documents. You can install
multiple instances of the PlanetPress Fax service on your network, and have PlanetPress
Workflowsend jobs to one or more of these instances. Each instance of PlanetPress Fax
can generate faxes and dispatch them from the host on which it runs, using a local faxing
program, such as WinFax PRO, Captaris RightFax or Windows Fax. See About Fax.
l PrintShop Mail:Used to generate documents using PrintShop Mail databases and
documents. Communicate with it through the PrintShop Mail and PrintShop Mail 7
Connector Tasks. See "PrintShop Mail" on page396.
l Laserfiche:Used as a repository for electronic documents. Communicate with it through
the Laserfiche Repository Output Task. See "Laserfiche Repository Output" on page366.
l PlanetPress Capture:Used to generate and process files using Anoto patterns.
Communicate with it through the PlanetPress Capture tasks such as the Anoto Ink
Processor and the Anoto Pattern plugins.
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