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
l
Global variables are available to all processes and tasks within the configuration, and
any modification made to them affects all tasks and configurations. For more information
see "Global variables" on page565.
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Local variables are specific to an instance of a process. That is to say, when a process
changes the information in a local variable, it changes it only for that process and only for
that specific instance of the process. For more information see "Local variables" on
page564.
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Job Infos are also specific to an instance of a process, however their use is different. Just
after an initial or secondary input task, Job Infos contain information about the job file
itself. They are generally used to gather information from the input task, or to transfer
information to a Connect template or PlanetPress Design document. For more information
see "Job Info variables" below.
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Standard variables, also known as "system variables", are variables that are created
and managed directly by PlanetPress Workflow. These variables are read-only and
cannot be modified. They provide information about the job, process, and PlanetPress
Workflow environment. For more information see "Standard variables" on page559.
All the variables in PlanetPress Workflow are considered strings, even if the information itself
can be a number. There are no other types of variables (such as arrays, floating point numerical
values or booleans) in PlanetPress Workflow.
Job Info variables
Job Infos contain information on any job file that comes out of the initial input task or any
secondary input tasks. There are only 9 Job Infos available numbered from 1 to 9. They can be
accessed directly anywhere where variable properties are accepted, by using the number of the
variable preceded by a percent sign, for example, %2 or %9.
Not all available Job Infos will actually be used by input tasks. The number of Job Infos as well
as their definition can be seen in the Other tab of any input task.
The value of a Job Info can also be set:
l Via the Set Job Info and Variable action task. See "Set Job Infos and Variables" on
page350.
l Via a Script task. See the chapter "Using Scripts" on page131.
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