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 Rename: Renames the subprocess.
l Group, Ungroup: Triggers grouping functionality.
l Properties...: Displays the process' properties for error handling.
l Global Variables:Displays a list of variables that are shared between all your processes
(see: "Types of variables" on page512). Right-click on a Global Variable to access a
drop-down menu that offers these choices:
l Insert Global Variable:Creates a new global variable
l Cut, Copy, Paste:Controls the clipboard.
l Delete: Deletes the global variable from the configuration.
l Rename: Renames the global variable.
l Reset: Resets the global variable to its default value. Useful if one of your process
is modifying the global variable's value and you want to return it to its original
default value.
l Group, Ungroup: Triggers grouping functionality.
l Properties...:Displays the properties, which lets you set a default value for the
global variable.
l Connect Resources:Displays a list of PlanetPress Connect resources that can be used
in processes (see: "Connect resources" on page565). Different resources are divided into
subfolders:
l Data Mapping Configurations:Displays a list of data mapping configurations used
with the Execute Data Mapping task. For each data mapping configuration in the
list, the following two items appear within them:
l Data Model:Displays the data model used in the data mapping configuration.
Double-click on the data model to view it in your default XMLviewer
(generally, Internet Explorer).
l Sample Data File(s):Displays a list of sample files that are included in the
data mapping configuration. Double-click on a file to use it as a sample data
file for the active process.
l Document Templates:Displays a list of templates that can be used in content
creation tasks:"Create Email Content" on page458, "Create Web Content" on
page475 and "Create Print Content" on page472.
l
Job Presets:Displays a list of Job Presets that can be used in the "Create Job" on
page462 task.
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