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 Step through the process in debug mode until you reach the emulation or data change.
l
Click on View as Text (or View as PDFif your data is PDF at this point) in the Data group
of the Debug tab.
l In the viewer that appears, save the file to a location on your hard drive.
l Stop the process, and select the file you saved as your process' data file.
l If you need to continue debugging your process after the emulation change, you can still
do it by using Skip on all the tasks until the emulation change, inclusively. Then use Step
or Run to continue debugging.
Lastly, PlanetPress Workflow has an option that can be used in conjunction with the previous to
avoid skipping through large processes:
l Step through the process until the emulation or data change, as in the first method.
l Save the data file locally and then select it as your sample data file, as with the second
method.
l Instead of skipping through each task, use the Run from here or Step from here options,
either from the Debug tab or by right-clicking on the task where you want to start the
process.
Once you have created and fully debugged all your processes, you will be ready to send it to
PlanetPress Workflow service. See "Saving and sending a Workflow Configuration" on
page525.
About Printing
To print a document using PlanetPress Workflow, you can either use the Print using a Windows
Driver output task, or use a combination of a printer queue and a Printer Queue output task.
These tasks are created and defined using PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program.
The following types of printer outputs are available in PlanetPress Workflow Configuration
program:
l Local printing:
l Windows output queues let you send jobs to a local printer. See "Windows Output
Printer Queue" on page70.
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