2018.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.2
- Installation and setup
- Basics
- Features
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and error handling
- About printing
- OL Connect print jobs
- PlanetPress Suite print jobs
- PlanetPress Workflow printer queues
- Shared printer queue properties
- Windows Output printer queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder printer queue
- Load balancing
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PlanetPress printer queues
- Triggers
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- About variables
- Special workflow types
- About related programs and services
- The user interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- PlanetPress Design document properties
- Moving and copying configuration components
- 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...
- Deleting something from the Configuration Components pane
- 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 plugin preferences 1
- HTTP Server Input plugin preferences 2
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 1
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 2
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 3
- 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
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
- Highlight a task or branch
- Disabling tasks and branches
- Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
- Redo a command
- Removing tasks or branches
- Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
- Resizing the rows and columns of the Process area
- Undo a command
- Zoom in or out within Process Area
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Known Issues
Microsoft patch causing handling of XLS to fail
Some recent Windows updates from Microsoft have impacted the handling of XLS sources in
PReS\PlanetPress Workflow 8.
The Microsoft updates concerned are as follows:
l KB4041693 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
l KB4041681 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
l KB4041690 for Windows Server 2012 (no service pack)
Installing these updates may cause the application to fail when attempting to open or load XLS
files via a plugin or in a script. The following error message may appear: “Unexpected error
from external database driver (1). (Microsoft JET Database Engine)".
Suggested resolution
Uninstall the Microsoft patches and wait for the issue to be fixed in a subsequent Microsoft
patch.
Workarounds
l For the Lookup in Microsoft Excel Documents plugin (found in the Connectors tab of the
plugin bar): Open the original .xls file and save it with the .xlsx format. That will force the
Excel Lookup plugin to switch drivers.
l For the Database Query plugin (found in the Actions tab of the plugin bar) and when
using Excel/Access in PlanetPress Design: Change the ODBC driver used for Excel files
from JET to ACE (change the Data Source). As an example: in Windows 10: Change the
Excel File ODBC driver from ODBCJT32.dll to ACEODBC.dll. (Naming may vary from
versions of the OS but the basics stay the same.) Important: Before switching from JET to
ACE, install the latest MS Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920). Otherwise, using
ACE in one or more self-replicating processes in a Workflow configuration can cause
Workflow to crash.
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